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Temple University disputes degree was denied because of bias
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A former Temple University student who's suing the university maintains he was denied a master's degree because of his political views.
But the school's lawyer said in court today that Christian DeJohn turned in an awful thesis.
DeJohn entered the master's program in January 2002 but took a leave of absence to serve in Bosnia with the Pennsylvania Army National Guard. He maintains that he lost the support of the history department faculty when he returned to Temple after his deployment.
DeJohn's lawyer says his client is in "personal and professional limbo," unable to pursue his desired job as a teacher.
The university's lawyer says DeJohn's thesis was "a monstrosity" and he refuses to accept guidance on improving it.
Big project spurs legal defense fund
Don't get Jim Communale, owner of Crossroads Furniture in Upper Mount Bethel Township, started on the Marshfield Village development.
''Good for business, bad for everything else,'' is how Communale sums up the development that calls for building 1,257 townhouses and condos on a little less than 400 acres, a proposal that would boost the number of dwellings in the township by 50 percent -- to about 3,800.
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War hero, poster boy and fraud
The Katte-Caux story demonstrates what war can do to ordinary people. It also shows how one deception can lead to another nearly a century later. Mr Caux was given a state funeral in 2004 as one of the last five Australian survivors of World War I. The French Government had honoured him as the last Australian survivor of the Battle of Pozieres. Yet The Sydney Morning Herald revealed the day after the funeral that the Caux story was not quite what it seemed. Allegations about Caux's record had led the Department of Veterans' Affairs to have his body examined. This confirmed that, at least, the old soldier had gone to war and been wounded. Lynette Silver, the historian investigating the man's background with military researcher Di Elliott, and wrote a book, Marcel Caux: A Life Unravelled , said yesterday: "In many ways, Harold Katte was representative of a number of young Australians who enlisted in WWI.
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