This unfortunate but intriguing glimpse into the politics of corruption at OSU will hopefully end with the dismissal of those members of the faculty playing games with Art's kids:
"Dear Friends,
David Kupelian has written a new editorial at World Net Daily about the Robinson students and Professor Higginbotham at Oregon State University.
The link is:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=278481
The text (without the figures) is also reproduced below. [I've deleted major portions of the WND article}
Thank you for all of your support and encouragement.
Art
"Crunch time: Payback machine grinding GOP candidate's kids
Posted: March 23, 2011
1:43 am Eastern
© 2011 WorldNetDaily
By David Kupelian
Earlier this month, WND broke the sensational story in which Art Robinson - the noted scientist who challenged Democratic Rep. Peter DeFazio for Oregon's 4th District congressional seat in November - alleged some extraordinarily nasty post-election political retribution was underway against his children.
DeFazio, one of Congress's most influential leftist progressives, having co-founded and chaired the House Progressive Caucus, won with 54.5 percent of the vote, compared to 43.6 percent for Robinson, a solid Reagan conservative - largely because, during the home stretch, DeFazio and his supporters launched a vicious media smear campaign against Robinson consisting of multiple outrageous lies ("Robinson's a racist," "Robinson's in the pocket of 'big oil,'" etc. - even, believe it or not, "Robinson wants to irradiate your drinking water.")
Art Robinson, Ph.D.
Immediately after the election, however, Robinson announced that he would challenge DeFazio again in 2012. And that, according to Robinson, is when the ultraliberal Oregon political machine went into high gear, intending to grind not only Robinson up within those gears - but three of his children as well, all students in the nuclear engineering Ph.D. program at Oregon State University.
Before I explain how, let me quickly tell you about the Robinson kids.
In 1980, after having co-founded the Linus Pauling Institute in Menlo Park, Calif., with Nobel-winner Linus Pauling, Art Robinson founded the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine with the help of his chemist wife Laurelee. They had six children, which they homeschooled on 350 acres in southern Oregon. But in 1988, Lauralee died suddenly from hemorrhagic pancreatitis, leaving Art with the daunting task of caring for six young children, aged 18 months to 12 years. What did he do?
As I explained in a previous column:
Art restructured their homeschooling curriculum in such a way that his children could, to a considerable extent, teach themselves. He also eventually packaged the curriculum and offered it to the homeschooling world. "The Robinson Curriculum" apparently works pretty well, as today all six of Art's children either have doctorate degrees or will shortly. One has a chemistry Ph.D., two have doctorates in veterinary medicine and the last three are all in the Oregon State University graduate program working toward their Ph.D.s in nuclear engineering.
Oh, and how'd they pay for all that expensive college and postgraduate schooling - six times? Sales of "The Robinson Curriculum," which remains very popular among homeschoolers.
Talk about the American can-do spirit!
But now, faculty administrators at Oregon State University, which reportedly received $27 million in earmark funding thanks to DeFazio and his fellow Democrats during the last Congress, appear to be in the process of throwing some or all of the three Robinson children - Joshua, Bethany and Matthew - out of the graduate school where they have invested years in pursuit of doctorates in nuclear engineering.
But wait, you might be wondering, maybe there's something wrong with these kids. Maybe their grades are no good and they're just not cutting the mustard. Maybe it's more complicated than what's being presented here. Maybe...
Not a chance. After Joshua Robinson, who's been working for four years on his doctorate, constructed a "prompt neutron activation elemental analyzer" (look it up) and added it to the OSU nuclear reactor, it earned him the award for best Masters of Nuclear Engineering thesis at OSU (see photo), and it has been praised by scientists at two prominent U.S. research facilities.
Well, what about Bethany Robinson, maybe she's the slouch. Not exactly: Although Bethany, who has invested four years in her doctorate, has an OSU grade point average of an almost perfect 3.89, she has reportedly been told by a faculty member that he's terminating her thesis work and taking all of her work in progress for himself!
So, the bad apple must be Matthew Robinson. Wrong again. Matthew, with an OSU grade point average of 3.91, passed up a $57,000 per year offer from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (that's where my own father went to school, one of the best in the world) just so he could be with Joshua and Bethany at OSU.
It gets worse. Besides endangering the educations and careers of three of its best students - all named Robinson - OSU is apparently intent on destroying one of its finest professors as well.
OSU Professor of Nuclear Engineering Jack Higginbotham is a real hero in this whole miserable scenario. A fully tenured professor, Higginbotham is president of the OSU Faculty Senate and he is director of the Oregon NASA Space Science Consortium. And yet, after 24 years on the OSU faculty, they want to destroy him too. Why? Because he had the integrity to truly care about his students and to stand up for them in the face of the current plot against them.
Specifically, since the good professor was privy to all of various meetings and actions planned against the Robinson kids, he warned them and their father - and openly defended them.
...
I've personally read over 500 emails sent to Prof. Higginbotham, almost all from Oregonians, including many OSU alumni and some from scientists and science professors - and every one of them is outraged, to put it mildly.
What on earth is Oregon State University doing? This is a fine institution, but some of its administrators are playing a very dangerous game. They are playing with their reputation, with their ability to fund-raise, and with their core academic integrity.
It's crazy. Saner heads need to prevail at OSU - and quickly.
If you want to help right a terrible wrong that's about to happen - not just to Art Robinson, his children who are students at OSU, and Professor Higginbotham, but to Oregon State University itself, which is in the process of irreparably harming itself - go to Robinson's website,
www.OregonStateOutrage.com."
