Garrison Still Refuses to Admit that Heather Bresch Didn’t Earn Degree
From Saturday’s Decision Makers:
Bray Cary: Do you believe that Heather Bresch earned her Master’s Degree?
Mike Garrison: I believe that she believes it. I have no basis for believing it or not believing it.
Could someone in the media -ANYONE IN THE MEDIA — please ask Garrison what it means to “accept the report”, but totally deny its conclusions?
PLEASE?
Not only did the report find that Heather Bresch did not earn the degree — the report also found that it wasn’t even reasonable for Bresch to believe that she earned it.
And Mike Garrison has been running around spouting this bullshit for weeks now, and NO ONE has called him on it.
It’s worth noting here that West Virginia University Foundation is a substantial investor (read: millions) in Bray Cary’s West Virginia Media Holdings, and that just 2 years ago, Mike Garrison was their lobbyist. So if you were wondering who’d they’d find to throw more soft balls at Mike than Hoppy Kercheval ever could — the answer is Bray Cary.
Tags: Mike Garrison, Heather Bresch
May 4, 2008 at 5:28 pm
“accepts the report, but denies the conclusion” - absolutely ludicrous - ok, sure, garrison says it, and that makes it so, only one problem, no one believes him. And, if he can lie so easily, not to mention believe his own lies, then perhaps he needs a therapist. Hotdog, Mikey, a new thought just came to me - with this new law of yours in place, perhaps no one now will have to go to any trial, no matter the crime! The perpetrators can quote you, “I accept the report, but deny the conclusion”. Ok, cased closed, we’re sorry to have bothered you, and…you’re a free man!
May 4, 2008 at 5:31 pm
Speaking of Hoppy….I heard a rumor that WVU is going to or trying to, sever relations with WV Radio and going after Caridi hard to do sports “in house”.
Can anyone confirm or deny?
May 4, 2008 at 5:40 pm
Sounds plausible, considering Hoppy has been less than accomodating to Garrison these last couple weeks. He hasn’t been as strident as some of us here in his opposition, but he’s not been blowing him like he was a year ago, either.
May 4, 2008 at 6:10 pm
Watched the first segment of that show online for the first time and Garrison has the cajones to say that he doens’t think anyone manufactured grades out of thin air. Ugh…musta been thick air because the report clearly states that grades were assigned out of thin fucking air.
I hope that faculty at WVU watch this. It pisses me off. How can he even say this on frickin’ TV? I am pissed off.
May 4, 2008 at 6:12 pm
Heather believed she didn’t have an MBA, that’s why she got dear ol’ dad involved in the first place. Get your story straight, Mikey.
Why does this remind me of George “it’s not a lie if YOU believe it” Costanza?
May 4, 2008 at 6:13 pm
This man really needs to be held accountable in a court of law, I mean, really
May 4, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Correction: Heather KNEW - not just believed - she didn’t have an MBA, which is why the Manchin machinery was put into motion.
May 4, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Prediction: Walker resigns before Senate vote on Monday
May 4, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Read in the DP today that Douglas Glover is stopping donations. This is a definite loss. The Glovers have supported WVU and especially the Health Sciences for years. OUCH. I know that WVU HSC was trying to start a drug dicovery center to interact with i believe the cancer center, I wonder how this mess affects that situation. It cannot be good for trying to recruit in researchers. Same can be said for the BRNI researchers, I wonder if some of them are beginning to have second thoughts. That would be SAD if the BRNI grand opening occurs this Fall and there are no people to fill the building.
May 4, 2008 at 6:46 pm
Speaking of BRNI, rumor has it that the director was asked to resign, has until June 30? June 30’s a magic number!
May 4, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Well, you don’t have to live in a Tower, or Washington Ave, to know that Garrison is a big piece of crap, and Heather is delusional.
May 4, 2008 at 7:40 pm
I did not want to mention the BRNI director situation but now that someone else has I will say that it is true. Also the highly funded Peds director seems to be on the outs.
May 4, 2008 at 7:41 pm
Azlo, one fall guy, 2 others given a couple dollars pay cut, I don’t think (hope) will assuage the faculty.
I mean, if Walker can resign this monday, he could have resigned last monday.
Remember, these clowns are the ones who insisted nothing wrong happened.
And if he does resign, he’ll be working for Mylan before the end of the week.
May 4, 2008 at 7:45 pm
reminds me of one of the Beatles’ songs, appears there’s a “revolution” in the making - let’s hope we keep up the fight
May 4, 2008 at 7:46 pm
no doubt the peds director couldn’t be bought or bribed or coerced or threatened - so, there are a few good people left afterall
May 4, 2008 at 8:01 pm
Does anyone remember a small story in the Dominion Post in the past two weeks or so that a woman in GA who is suing Mylan over a fentanyl patch overdose, and that her attorneys claim Mylan has a pattern of not firing people who have been found to have committed errors/done things wrong (this is my memory only, may not be 100% accurate)? I tried to google this, there have been several fentanyl lawsuits (mostly over Activis, the non-generic patch), but I could not find that story I read in the Dominion Post. Maybe someone has access to the online version.
Mylan was sued by the patent holder over its attempt to introduce the generic back in 2004. I got several google hits for personal injury attorneys because the fentanyl can become absorbed too fast and death can result. To be fair, however, Mylan is one of the most generous employers in the Morgantown area. The state would be lucky to have more people employed by Mylan, rather than by Walmart and the convenience stores.
Various people writing on Mike’s blog claim the panel says that Mike did nothing wrong and that those of us calling for his resignation are not aware of the facts. If we only read the panel report, we’d see he did nothing wrong. I’ve been reading every word as published by the DP, and I stand by my position.
May 4, 2008 at 8:07 pm
ok dear faculty senate members, twilight is drawing nigh….will you cower or will truth prevail….will you let us down, more importantly, will you let yourselves down. Granted you’ve read several items of interest, heresay at best, however, remember the facts of this case, they’re blatant, they’re clear and concise, they’re words of truth. Make this president step down, this decision based on factual truths, and don’t resort to anything less.
May 4, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Azlo…you mean the Peds Chair is gone? Or the a Peds Director within BRNI?
May 4, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Dan Page’s editorial in the State Journal is pretty good. Not sure what his relationship is to Garrison (we know Bray Cary’s), but I especially liked the end:
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Many of us want the best for our university, which has demonstrated excellence in teaching and service to our state. Many of us want to protect our university from the sort of asinine political behavior that has driven the entire state to the bottom of every significant indicator of personal and financial well-being.
As it turns out, however, the Board of Governors appears to want us to believe the unbelievable — that a president with a political background can rise from this smoldering, wretched debacle and forever avoid destructive and seamy politics. The president says he accepts responsibility and then quickly adds that he had nothing to do with the Bresch decision. What sort of leadership is that?
Haven’t we had more than our share of nodding and winking? Haven’t we taken enough risks with West Virginia University’s future?
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May 4, 2008 at 8:22 pm
Azlo…the Peds Chair is leaving or a Peds Director in BRNI is leaving?
May 4, 2008 at 8:45 pm
If Caridi were going in house to Athletics, then odds are he would do it as an employee of ISP or IMG, one of the big NCAA right consolidators that are bidding on properties right now. Not sure when the contract with RaeseCo is up, but both ISP and IMG are overpaying for a lot of sub-mediocre schools right now. Both would be of the RRod/Kendrick ilk and get a whole lot more $$ out of the marketing process than WVU does currently.
May 4, 2008 at 8:46 pm
I’ll be vague - but ped’s director has a family health issue and is taking a temporary leave of absence to help with that. This person is not involved in any of this stuff. he’s a great guy and is putting family first to attend to this issue.
May 4, 2008 at 8:50 pm
CD…but are you talking Peds within BRNI or the Dept?
May 4, 2008 at 8:51 pm
my sources tell me that the peds director was part of the bailes plot to otherthrow prescott. I also hear that is another department with large deficit spending that prescott wanted corrected like neurosurgery. I think there is more to the story than just health issues. That may just be a cover.
May 4, 2008 at 8:59 pm
hmmm I hear that Prescott got sacked when he a structure between UHA, HSC and WVUH could not be reached…that also precipitated the move to bring the “consultants” in.
May 4, 2008 at 9:00 pm
How screwy is this? Buddy brought this invite by this afternoon. Seems SMC is having a fundraiser in MoTown in a few days and the invites says its being sponsored by (among) others:
Glenn Adrian (former client of Garrison)
Dog Leech (YUCK)
Bob Steptoe
and Dr. James Stevenson (a signature of the Bailes letter)
This place just keeps getting smaller and smaller….
May 4, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Let me draw attention to the President’s Blog and the responses. When this blog began, folks could leave messages for a time. Then it was shut down for further comments. Now, you can leave comments but they are “monitored.” As a result, they are manipulating the messages making it onto the page so that it looks like the ratio of positive to negative comments is much higher than it actually is. This is just one more deception among a large number.
May 4, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Did you notice that one of the positive recent comments on the President’s blog claimed he was a Rhodes, rather than a Rotary, scholar?
May 4, 2008 at 9:25 pm
Did anyone read the letter to the editor in the DP from Pamela Eddy? Not many letters out there in support of Garrison so I had to look up this Pamela Eddy. Pamela Eddy is a secretary at WVU Student Health. Specifically, she is Dr. John Vanin’s secretary and Vanin is on Garrison’s search committee for the new HSC VP. John Vanin’s wife is Sandra Vanin who is closely tied to MoJo. Ms Eddy says Garrison should have “cleaned house” pretty strong words for a secretary — don’t you think? A few days ago there was a supporting letter from Dr. Lisa Rudolph-Watson also a colleague of Dr. John Vanin. Looks like we have more of Mojo’s friends ready and willing to manipulate public perception for the good old boys club.
May 4, 2008 at 9:36 pm
andyanon, did you also see the positive comments on MG’s blog from James Helsley ? guess where he works ?
you guessed it, with Vanin, Eddy and Rudolph
interesting, isn’t it !
May 4, 2008 at 9:42 pm
I wish I knew who to trust…depressing. There’s so much going on-it goes on because people are too overwhelmed to fight back and these opportunists know it and have exploited that for years.
So, let’s figure out a way to fight back!
May 4, 2008 at 9:58 pm
Hey, andyanon and formerfaculty now that you mention it I did see Sandra Vanin at Garrison’s candidate Q&A forum at WVU just before he was hired as Pres.
May 4, 2008 at 10:12 pm
fomerfaculty, interesting…..wonder what impact the Vanin Garrison Mojo connection will have on the problems we have been reading about at Student Health?
May 4, 2008 at 10:37 pm
That surprises me from Helsley. I have always thought he was an honorable man. He may know something we don’t. He is very intelligent and non-judgemental.
May 4, 2008 at 10:46 pm
wvugradobserver, look Vanin up. He is the Director which means he is Helsley’s boss–if Helsley is so honorable I don’t think he would be going along with this bulls…
May 4, 2008 at 11:28 pm
andyanon - yes, that’s why I wonder what he knows that would convince him to defend Garrison. He wouldn’t do so just to tow a party line - he would need a reason. At any rate - he is a great asset to Student Health. He was my physician when I was an undergrad – I always requested him - he used to be one of the docs you would see when you made an appt. for a cold or whatever – he has since moved to mental health. He doesn’t just say - this is your problem - here are your meds. He takes the time to get to know students personally, genuinely cares about your welfare, and explains everything in great detail. So, as much as I disagree with his opinion on this subject, I would never lump him into that ‘club’. His job isn’t just a paycheck to him, or a stepping stone to something bigger.
May 4, 2008 at 11:33 pm
to andyanon and wvugradobserver - then what part of the truth has this Helsley not read???? I mean, you’re kidding, right? The facts are the facts, no matter who believes them, they’re still the facts. And this isn’t whether or not garrison is liked, or that he hasn’t done some good. The facts, guys, stick with the facts. I can’t think of one person who could honestly say that with the facts, garrison is guilty.
May 4, 2008 at 11:53 pm
oh for crying out loud I am going to bed. Yes, Garrison is guilty as hell and so are a lot of other people but that doesn’t mean every single person that has ever had lunch with the guy is a piece of shit too.
May 4, 2008 at 11:55 pm
Let’s pretend for a second that Garrison was not directly involved in the decision to award Heather an MBA.
At a minimum, Garrison is guilty of his staff’s mismanagement in the largest academic scandal in WVU’s 140 years.
Stewart Hall sent out numerous false and misleading statements to the media when this scandal was brewing. Their lies and half-truths inflated this scandal, and we have yet seen an apology for those specific instances.
If he had even read the Post-Gazette’s articles as this was developing, he should have reached the conclusion that something was amiss in the meeting he did not attend.
He has yet to punish his public relations officials for lying to the Post-Gazette, and he has yet to hold his COS and Counsel accountable for being in the infamous meeting and not letting him know there was a problem. News reporters that weren’t in the room and their readers were able to conclude that something wrong and possibly illegal, Macia should have also.
His failure to act indicates either grave incompetence or something worse.
May 5, 2008 at 12:36 am
something worse
May 5, 2008 at 12:48 am
Oh, this is timely…
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08126/879261-85.stm
“And in other studies, she has found people will routinely change their minds about how unethical a behavior is, depending on whether it leads to a positive or negative outcome.”
May 5, 2008 at 12:58 am
A distiguished former WVU Faculty Senate Chair contacted his Senate colleagues tonight to eloquently argue in support of President Garrison:
From: Parviz Famouri
To: Faculty Senate List Serve
Date: May 4, 2008 11:16 PM
I just want to remind our faculty senate colleague that it is very
important where they get their news from, the Huntington News
(Marshall) and the Pittsburgh Gazettes (Pitt) are no friend of WVU.
If our intention is the welfare of our university, then we must come together and start the healing process. Despite the threat, I support President Garrison and not afraid of “Close examination” by Professor Smith.
We need to move away from the usual fear tack ticks that we have grown
to be so custom to in recent years. We will come out of this strong
and determine to go to the next level.
I will see you all tomorrow at the meeting.
Parviz
May 5, 2008 at 1:07 am
Merciful God. I can’t stop laughing. “the usual fear tack ticks that we have grown to be so custom to in recent years.” Too good to be true.
May 5, 2008 at 1:26 am
follow the money . . . about a year and a half ago the State Journal had a corporate filing by Parviz’s wife — no way to know what the company makes, but he’s an engineer of some sort. I can’t remember the name of the company, and you need to pay the Sec’y of State for a name search.
May 5, 2008 at 6:20 am
One thing is for certain. Joe Manchin will never need a paternity test to prove Heather is his daughter. That’s one bloodline that breeds true. Isn’t it about time the housecleaning efforts extend to the Governor’s mansion. For God’s sake, hasn’t West Virginia had enough of the Manchins yet.
May 5, 2008 at 6:35 am
Parviz has shown that he is unable to write a basic sentence in English and yet he makes $145,000+ as an Associate Professor
May 5, 2008 at 6:48 am
She is most definitely Joe’s daughter. Her ability to lie while facing a mountain of evidence is very Manchin-like, just like her Daddy or her late uncle.
Thanks, Heather. Make a national laughingstock out of our state’s flagship’s institution to coverup lying on your resume.
May 5, 2008 at 7:04 am
Re: Parvis inability to write a sentence
Can you believe it? I was embarrassed because I missed an apostrophe in my “Garrison must go to restore academic integrity” e-mail to a single faculty senator.
And this “distinguished former WVU Faculty Senate Chair” had access to the List Serve. I’m sure faculty will be as impressed as we are with “fear tack ticks we have grown to be so custom to . . . ”
That’s just sad. I suppose at WVU he had a secretary to deal with mundane tasks like writing an e-mail.
May 5, 2008 at 7:20 am
We need to move away from the usual fear tack ticks that we have grown
to be so custom to in recent years. We will come out of this strong
and determine to go to the next level.
I will see you all tomorrow at the meeting.
Parviz
Don’t gloat. You’ve all been duped. It’s clear that this is not a real letter. It’s brilliant parody by Ali G in full-blown Borat persona.
(If it ain’t…then this Parviz missed his true and surely more lucrative calling as a comic and satirist.)
May 5, 2008 at 7:26 am
By golly, Mackeral, we HAVE been duped. How could I miss that?
May 5, 2008 at 7:39 am
The MG blog is biased. Tim said it earlier–they are holding responses to balance them pro and con, IF they are posting them at all.
I would have thought there would be more responses on there.
Have they been using
fear
tack
ticks?
May 5, 2008 at 8:22 am
We can totally discount what Parviz says. He has been spewing support for Garrison from the very beginning and no amount of evidence is going to change his stupidity, which is proven by his inability to express himself in writing. If one spends anytime with this man, it becomes obvious that his reasoning abilities are unsound and he is as slimey as those he supports.
May 5, 2008 at 8:37 am
Parviz is an ardent supporter of Garrison and watching him suck up to MG in public is embarrasing.
May 5, 2008 at 8:50 am
Someone that makes 145,000 and can’t write a basic sentence needs to have done a lot of ass kissing to get where he is.
May 5, 2008 at 10:40 am
Excerpt from transcript of Decision Makers interview, part 1. You have to see this to believe it!
MG: [Bresch] believed she had a degree
MG: I talked to the governor - it wasn’t until December {2:41}
MG: Didn’t talk to [the governor] until late December {3:10}
MG: (later) … I talk to the governor a lot… {4:20}
not weekly necessarily … talk to him frequently
…about the pop tax and how the elimination of that might affect Health Sciences… {4:35}
BC: Is there an accusation that someone gave her grades in this process? Are you aware of that? {6:07}
MG: I really don’t know if there is or not. {6:11} All I’ve done is read the committee report and I’ve talked to the individuals who were involved — not all of them — but, most of them, um, my , my sense, from what the committee report says is: um, that the issue could have been dealt with a lot better. I agree with that. I don’t have any reason to know or believe whether folks tried — I don’t believe anybody tried to manufacture a grade. I believe people were trying to work with the information they had; they didn’t have all the information.
May 5, 2008 at 10:54 am
clearly didn’t read the report–”out of thin air” ring any bells?
May 5, 2008 at 11:21 am
BB, that sounded fuzzy to me when I watched the Garrison interview Saturday morning.
Garrison talks with the governor almost weekly yet in two months of chats, Heather’s degree never came up?
May 5, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Parviz thinks he’ll be Provost
May 7, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Damn. For whateve reason when I scrolled down I did a double-take, thinking the caption across the pictures now said “Bresch of Duty”. I picked a hell of a day to quit sniffing glue (God Bless You, Lloyd Bridges).
June 2, 2008 at 5:03 am
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