From declanm@netcom.com Sat Jul 15 11:24:50 1995 Return-Path: Received: from andrew.cmu.edu by mail4.netcom.com (8.6.12/Netcom) id LAA07789; Sat, 15 Jul 1995 11:01:01 -0700 Received: (from postman@localhost) by andrew.cmu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA03390; Sat, 15 Jul 1995 14:02:02 -0400 Received: via switchmail for fight-censorship+@andrew.cmu.edu; Sat, 15 Jul 1995 14:02:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from po5.andrew.cmu.edu via qmail ID ; Sat, 15 Jul 1995 14:01:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from netcom22.netcom.com (netcom22.netcom.com [192.100.81.136]) by po5.andrew.cmu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id OAA04660 for ; Sat, 15 Jul 1995 14:01:04 -0400 Received: by netcom22.netcom.com (8.6.12/Netcom) id KAA24641; Sat, 15 Jul 1995 10:59:44 -0700 Date: Sat, 15 Jul 1995 10:59:43 -0700 (PDT) From: D B McCullagh Subject: Aaron's Post and More To: fight-censorship@andrew.cmu.edu Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: RO X-Status: Some of you have seen Aaron's summary before, but he does such a good job of summarizing the latest developments, I just had to pass it on, with a few comments: * CMU's Board of Trustees membership is public information. It's in the annual report, pp 28-30 of the most recent one, which is also public information. CMU is "a private university incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania." (Student Handbook) For a "top-20" university to be stonewalling on this is petty, and makes me even more embarassed to be associated with Carnegie Mellon. * How did Marty Rimm get into a prestigious MIT grad program? Word has it that Marvin Sirbu is an MIT alum. Certainly can't hurt, having someone who has joint appointments in three departments, advises you, and heads a research institute, write a recommendation for you. * Robert Mehrabian is in the process of undergoing his five-year review. The DOD's ongoing criminal investigation into CMU's finances already has made his footing shaky at best. This cyber-porn flareup could cause him to stumble and fall. Word on the streets has it that he'll be looking for another job soon. (He shouldn't have withdrawn his nomination as a presidential candidate of that University of California school.) * I was pissed off enough by CMU's attitude to dig up addresses for the BOT executive committee, which meets about this time every month. The full board doesn't meet until November. Thomas A. McConomy Chairman of the Board c/o Warner Hall 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Claire W. Gargalli Chair of the Budget committee Vice Chairman The Diversified Search Companies One Commerce Square 2005 Market Street, Suite 3300 Philadelphia, PA 19103 Bill Knoell Chair of the Audit committee Retired Chairman and CEO Cyclops Corporation 201 Kingsberry Circle Pittsburgh, PA 15234 Tod Johnson Chair of Development/Individual Giving Chief Executive Officer The NPD Group, Inc. 900 West Shore Road Port Washington, NY 11050 David Shapira Chair of Educational Affairs & Enrollment Committee Chief Executive Officer Giant Eagle, Inc. 101 Kappa Drive Pittsburgh, PA 15238 Henry Gailliot Chair of Investment Committee Senior Vice President Federated Research Corporation Federated Investors Tower 1001 Liberty Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15222 -Declan ----- FORWARDED MESSAGE BEGINS HERE >From kieran@interport.net Sat Jul 15 10:10:14 PDT 1995 Subject: The Latest on the Rimm Scandal Date: Sat, 15 Jul 1995 01:02:15 -0500 Today's developments in the Rimm Scandal, including Carnegie-Mellon's mad scramble at spin control: 1) The following letter was leaked, from Don Hale, CMU's Vice President of University Relations (dh0c@andrew.cmu.edu). The title is an elegant way of saying Hale is CMU's number one PR spinmeister. The following was in response to a member of the CMU community asking what CMU's official response will be: [name deleted]: I have seen Brock's story, which is not journalism, but an entertaining, slickly written point of view piece on Marty Rimm and the controversy. Many thanks for shipping it to me. Be assured that I am working diligently to ensure that the university maintains its well earned reputation. I am keeping the academic leadership informed and trying to get fair and honest reporting from the news media. Best, Don 2) Hale said that CMU is simply providing the "service" of distributing the study, not necessarily standing behind the conclusions or methodologies of it. He also said that the big problem was only that the study didn't include a "standard disclaimer" saying that CMU provided funding but the results are not necessarily the opinions of CMU. 3) When asked whether CMU still accepts Rimm's study as "the Carnegie-Mellon" study, one of Hale's subordinates refused to answer the question, saying only "Don Hale is working with the provost now on how to handle the study." 4) CMU's PR office is now refusing to release the list of who serves on. CMU Board of Trustees. This is public information, and is published in CMU's own catalogs. As such, the only possible reason they've privatized it is to slow down reporters. The PR office admitted it was publically-available, and refused to give a reason why they wouldn't provide it. When asked when this new policy was instituted, no answer was given. (The full list of CMU's Board of Trustees, from CMU's own 1994-96 course catalog, is located at the bottom of this post.) 5) CMU has apparantly issued a university-wide coverup order. The simplest question about any aspect of the school's research system now results in the caller being tranferred from office to office, and all information is suddenly "unavailable". 6) Major media outlets are starting to inquire about CMU's handling of this, including the New York Times. 7) The latest issue of The New Republic includes a full-page story about the Time magazine article and the overall scandal. It calls Rimm "unrepentant and making things worse." 8) Time magazine assigned a senior staffer to write an article for Monday's edition on this mess they created. Realizing that he was being pushed into a morass of journalistic ethical violations, he demanded that he retain the right to remove his byline from the article should Time's senior management make changes to his story that he deemed unacceptable. As is to be expected, current word is that the story will run Monday, sans byline. 9) Reports are coming in from college students around the country who work in their colleges' computer centers. Seems they're now spending an inordinate amount of time fielding phone calls from upset parents, wanting to know why their money is going toward pornographic computer systems. 10) CMU released the following statement late Friday afternoon: UNIVERSITY STATEMENT ON RIMM STUDY The following is the university's statement about the study, "Marketing Pornography on the Information Superhighway," by Marty Rimm. Carnegie Mellon University is responsible for the integrity of research conducted at the university. As a community of scholars, in which truth and integrity are fundamental, the university generally examines carefully issues raised concerning the propriety of research conducted by members of the university community, taking due care to protect the rights of those members. Provost Paul Christiano already has informally sought and received advice from some faculty members about the study conducted by undergraduate student Marty Rimm and published by the Georgetown Law Journal. He will soon form a committee of distinguished and knowledgeable faculty to examine in more detail the issues that have been raised about the study. The committee will recommend the appropriate next steps, if any, that should be taken relative to this study and, if necessary, relative to policies on undergraduate research. 11) Some at CMU are considering filing internal disciplinary charges against Rimm and/or Marvin Sirbu. Some at MIT (where Rimm has been accepted to a prestigious graduate program) are expressing extreme concern as well. 12) One rumor has Rimm planning a lawsuit against Sirbu for academic misconduct and improper supervision. More later.... --Aaron The Carnegie-Mellon University Board of Trustees --- --------------- ---------- ----- -- -------- Officers -------- Thomas A. McConomy, Chair and Alum CEO, Calgon Carbon Corporation Vincent A. Sarni, Vice Chair Former CEO PPG (Pittsburgh Plate Glass) Life Trustees ------------- Paul a. Allaire, CEO, Xerox, and Alum Frank V. Cahouet, CEO Mellon Bank Robert A. Charpie, Chairman, Ampersand Ventures, Former Chair of the Cabot Corporation, former chair of CMU Trustees, and alum Douglas Danforth, chair, Simmons Upholstered Furniture, Inc. Retired CEO of Westinghouse, former chair of CMU Trustees Edward Donley former chair of air products and chemicals Claire W. Gargalli, Vice Chiar The Diversified Search Companies Stanley R. Gumberg, Chairman of J.J. Gumberg, Co. Orion Hoch, chair emeritys, Lifton Industries, Chairman of the Executive Comm, Western Atlas, Inc. and alum Terrence M. Hunt, Sr. Retired Vice PRes. ALCOA Stephen J. Jatras, REtired chair of Telex and alum Tod S. Johnson CEO of NPD Group and alum William H. Knoell, Reitred CEO of Cuclops and alum Hans Lange, chiar Ultra Pure Technologies, and alum Lindsay Jordan Morgenthaler, alum Charles W. Parry, Retired CEO ALCOA David M. Roderick, Former CEO USX, former chair of trustees Alvin Rogal, Chairman of Hilb, Rogal and Hamilton Company of Pgh David s. Shapira, CEO of Giant Eagle (Pgh supermarkets) Wesley W. von Schack, CEO of DQE James M. Walton, Vice chair of MMC Group Konrad Weis, chair Carnegie Institute L. Stanton Williams, retired CEO of PPG Term up in 95 ------------- Charles Corry, CEO USX Erroll Davis, Jr. CEO Wisconsin Power and Light and alum Henry Gailliot, senior VP, Federated Research Corp. and alum Wilton A. Hawkins, VP of R&D, Norton Performance Plastics and alum Helen Lee Henderson, Pres. Chiron Productions and alum James E. Rohr, Pres of PNC bank Ronald Skeddle, CEO, SWR and alum Donald Stitzenberg, exec director of business and marketing development, Marck, and alum Expires in 96 ------------- W. Logan Dickerson, Pres. of WP Dickerson and alum W. Lee Hoskins, CEO, Huntington Nat'l Bank David Kirr, President of Kirr, Marbach & Co., alum Andrew Merson, Pres of Command Web Offset Co., and alum John Rangos, CEO Chambers development co. Joseph Schuchert, CEO Kelso and Co., alum Expires in 97 ------------- C. Fred Fetterolf, Q-Core Enterprise Lucie J. Fjeldstad, Pres. of Fjeldstad, International T. Jerome Holleran, VP and Chief Operating Officer, Arrow Precision Products, inc., alum Justin Johnson, Judge, Superior Court of PA Raymand J. Lane, Pres, Worldwide Operations, Oracle corp. Alessandreo Ovi, Senior VP, Instituto per la Ricostruzione Industriale Charles J. Queenan, Jr. Partner Kirkpatrick and Lockhart James C. Stalder, Manageing Partner, Price Waterhouse Ex Officio Trustees ------------------- Richard A. Elder, President, Andrew Carnegie Society James Ferlo, Pesident, Pittsburgh City Council Thomas J. Murphy, Mayor, City of Pittsburgh Harold W. Paxton, Chairman, Faculty Senate, CMU Barrie Dinkins Simpson, President, CMU Alumni Association From declanm@netcom.com Wed Oct 4 12:27:23 1995 Return-Path: Received: from po7.andrew.cmu.edu by mail5.netcom.com (8.6.12/Netcom) id MAA18984; Wed, 4 Oct 1995 12:20:11 -0700 Received: (from postman@localhost) by po7.andrew.cmu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA12005; Wed, 4 Oct 1995 15:15:20 -0400 Received: via switchmail; Wed, 4 Oct 1995 15:15:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pcs16.andrew.cmu.edu via qmail ID ; Wed, 4 Oct 1995 15:13:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pcs16.andrew.cmu.edu via qmail ID ; Wed, 4 Oct 1995 15:13:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mms.4.40.Nov..4.1993.10.34.00.sun4c.411.MacMail.0.9.CUILIB.3.45.SNAP.NOT.LINKED.pcs16.andrew.cmu.edu.sun4c.411 via MS.5.6.pcs16.andrew.cmu.edu.sun4c_411; Wed, 4 Oct 1995 15:13:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <0kQhnOW00iV286DGNS@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 15:13:30 -0400 (EDT) From: "Declan B. McCullagh" To: Fight Censorship Mailing List Subject: Mehrabian: Worth the Money? Reply-To: fight-censorship+@andrew.cmu.edu Status: RO X-Status: The following data are taken from the most recent issue of the Chronicle of Higher Ed. Thanks to Jim Davidson for lending me his copy. As a side note, rumor has it that the Defense Department's criminal investigation into CMU's finances is picking up steam. (A source in Washington, DC tells me that the DoD Inspector General is paying close attention to what money flowed through the president's office. Reports include presidential pleasure trips and laundry paid for by DoD grant money.) The DoD's investigation into how CMU spent (or misspent) military research money started in October 1993, and the CMU administation has been fighting it ever since. CMU's current attorneys, Walter DeForest and Jackie Koscelnik, were hired in late 1993 specifically for their expertise in this area -- which helps to explain their lack of clue last year with Marty and Usenet. Remember, their initial advice was to follow a policy that included removing rec.arts.erotica because of their fear of criminal prosecution. (!) According to most faculty members I've spoken with, Mehrabian deserves to get the boot during his five-year review for many reasons, including his mishandling of the Rimm Debacle, but it ain't likely to happen. He's too close to the trustees and has taken pains to reach out to the Pittsburgh business community. -Declan --- Carnegie Mellon University's Highest-Compensated Employees (As reported on IRS Form 990) 92-93 pay 93-94 pay 93-94 benefits --------- --------- -------------- Robert Mehrabian, president $239,703 $240,134 $38,585 Stephen W. Director, dean of CIT $187,180 $193,610 $39,743 Allan Meltzer, professor, political $187,594 $191,044 $31,028 economics and public policy Egon Balas, professor, school of $181,088 $186,177 $29,152 industrial administration Raj Reddy, dean of SCS $177,840 $183,597 $34,666 Chester S. Spatt, professor, $171,367 $178,276 $21,675 economics and finance In comparison with other universities: 93-94 Spending 93-94 pay* 93-94 benefits* (* = for president) ----------------------------------------------- CMU $415 million $240,134 $38,585 ----------------------------------------------- N'Western $650 million $200,300 $33,378 Yale $892 million $155,232 $14,383 MIT $1.16 billion $281,374 $53,518 Cornell $1.31 billion $127,261 $152,677 Harvard $1.24 billion $241,298 $36,999 ###