Chief Pot Calls Common Kettle Black

"I have learned that despite the efforts that our officers make every minute of every day and the risks they take to keep you safe, there are still some of you who are willing to discount that for your own political gain"

Goodwin, Mike. "Police Chief Krokoff owns the Common Council chamber." Crime Confidential. Albany Times Union. January 6, 2012. http://blog.timesunion.com/crime/police-chief-krokoff-owns-the-common-council-chamber/10674/

"[Anton Konev] later called for an apology and said Krokoff should be willing to admit his department botched the confrontation with protesters or seek a new job.

"'If he's not willing to do that, then I have lost my confidence in him completely,' Konev said, 'and he should resign.'"

Carleo-Evangelist, Jordan. "Chief takes on council critics; Krokoff defends recent actions of police; blasts members of city panel." Albany Times Union. January 6, 2012. http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Chief-takes-on-council-critics-2444878.php

Chief Krokoff is quite the hypocrite to blast the (admittedly rotten) Common Council for supposedly not appreciating his police officers' sacrifices (even the "sacrifices" of the drunk-driving Albany ones?) when Krokoff himself does not appreciate the sacrifices of Albany officers of years gone by who had died in the line of duty. Granted: Krokoff's an inept and dirty cop, and why would a temperamental, inept, dirty cop like he care about anyone other than himself?

If only they'd all resign, the whole lot of them: Albany Yellow Journal staff, council members, police, etc.

If only...?

"'Fire 90% of editors and promote the one you can't control' Seymour Hersh on Obama, NSA and 'pathetic' US Media" - The Guardian this morning: wonderful!

The problem, though, goes up beyond the pathetic editors of pathetic US "newspapers" right up to the pathetic owners. How does one fire the pathetic publishers like the Albany Yellow Journal's filthy rich King George Adolf Hearse the Turd?

"The question of abolishing Police Headquarters is being thoroughly discussed.—People never before interested, are now becoming so. The propriety of such a move strikes all favorably. The acts of the Police Commissioners during the past year have disgusted all high-minded citizens. The recklessness they have exhibited in regard to the expenditure of the People's money, will tell heavily against them. Let them be ousted, we say. Abolish the whole concern, and the public will be $40,000 per annum in pocket."

"Abolishing Police Headquarters." Albany Evening Times February 2, 1867.

"nothing but beastly fury, and extreme violence, whereof proceedeth hurt, and consequently rancour and malice do remain"

"'I believe that within 10 years there will be no more youth contact football,' Holloway said. 'And there shouldn't be.' […] 'If it were today, when opportunities have opened up, there's no way I'd play football,' Holloway said."

Churchhill, Chris. "Football disabilities endure long after roar of crowd ends." Albany Times Union. September 19, 2013. http://www.timesunion.com/default/article/Football-disabilities-endure-long-after-roar-of-4826008.php

Admirable! People's lives might be better were they to pursue academics rather than athletics:

"'My mother always told me,' Bette McKenzie Holloway said last week, 'not to marry a pro athlete. She said they have affairs and they leave you.'"

Lipsyte, Robert. "One More Athlete's Wife Picks Up the Pieces of Her Life." N.Y. Times. June 1, 1997. http://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/01/sports/one-more-athlete-s-wife-picks-up-the-pieces-of-her-life.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

I'm glad one of the injuries done to Holloway was partially addressed:

"Statue stolen from Stephentown 'party home' has been returned." NEWS10 ABC. September 17, 2013. http://www.news10.com/story/23453662/statue-stolen-from-stephentown-party-home-has-been-returned

Sadly, I think Holloway's belief about the future of the catching and throwing of balls, of giving people brain damage and other injuries while abusing steroids and HGH, is naive optimism (though I empathize entirely with naive optimism, being given to it myself). I think football will malinger. The panem et circenses stage of our nation. There's too much money tied up in the spectacle by filthy rich individuals and corporations who don't ever give a thought to the harm they do, the trauma they cause, by their unceasing greed.

Evidently the entitled, amoral parents who raised their kids to be entitled, amoral teens have, predictably, despicably, inexcusably, threatened Holloway: sociopathy as a family value. Whoever came up with the idea of sealing juvenile records was probably one of those entitled, amoral types...? Or someone out of touch with reality, perhaps, a terribly misguided idealist.

Young sociopaths shouldn't be permitted to be on the same footing with those who wouldn't consider committing such outrageous, heinous crimes. If criminals want to put their crimes behind them, let their actions show it and let other people weigh the open record of their crimes against the record of what they've done since committing those crimes. As for them attending college: please, no. Not until they've demonstrably reformed. SUNY Albany has enough of their type already.

Editor The Record: On the same day, July 13, that the news broke in your newspaper, that the juveniles had been apprehended who had desecrated the two Jewish cemeteries in Troy by turning over 132 headstones “for kicks.” I listened to Judge Lester H. Loble of Helena, Mont., discuss the subject of juvenile delinquency on the Today program with Hugh Downs.

About five years ago this problem was so bad in Helena, as it is in Troy, that Judge Loble went to J. Edgar Hoover to discuss the problem with him and asked his advice as to the solution to it. Mr. Hoover told the judge that it would never be stopped until the children who committed these crimes were brought into the open by publishing their names and bringing them into court with their parents. The appearance of their parents in court and the juvenile names being made public, obligatory.

This method of treating juveniles who committed crimes was instigated shortly after the judge’s talk with Mr. Hoover, and prior to that time such juveniles were turned over to the custody of their parents and the whole matter was swept under the rug and forgotten.

The law must be changed to put such a program into effect, but would it not be worth it to stop the vandalism so rampant in Troy? Are the vandals going to intimidate and rule this wonderful country of ours, or are we going to do something about stopping it?

Judge Loble has written a book entitled “Delinquency Can Be Stopped” and I think the powers that be in Troy should read it. The streets, the parks, the homes and other places in our city can be made a lot safer if something is done about it.

HOPEFUL

Troy

Hopeful. "Vandalism." Times Record. July 18, 1967: 10. (bold emphasis added)

Surprisingly(?) UAlbany keeps calling me to ask for money

They really have no shame, do they?

"In 2000, UAlbany alumnus Bill Fuller Jr. wouldn't have considered writing a check to his alma mater's athletics department. He had no reason to.

"'Not at all. I felt it was a large community college and it really didn't bring people back to it, didn't hold on to alumni,' said Fuller, a 1984 graduate and president of R.C. Fuller Inc. in Locust Valley in Nassau County. 'It didn't really offer anything.'

"That's coming from a man who said he's committed about $50,000 in donations to the athletics department over the past several years. [...]

"A string of nationally noticed athletic achievements--what Fuller called 'tangible product'--has been a rising tide lifting the entire department. And the victories come at an opportune time: McElroy might need to raise as much as $10 million for a new stadium that's in the works."

Sichko, Adam. "UAlbany's athletic successes revive school spirit and spur donors." The Business Review. October 22, 2007. http://www.bizjournals.com/albany/stories/2007/10/22/focus1.html?page=all

UAlbany athletics: obscene amounts of dough. UAlbany administration: obscene amounts of d'oh!

UAlbany: pro-sexual harassment, pro-academic dishonesty, pro-retaliation (and pro-Pro football)

From: Christopher Philippo

Subject: your history request

Date: April 3, 2013 9:01:15 PM EDT

To: John Monfasani

I'd had some limited earlier communication with Murphy about another issue:

• April 19, 2007 11:24 AM

Clarence L. McNeill (CLMcN) to CKP and John M. Murphy (JMM) "RE: alcohol policy & ASP writers"

I didn't realize it at the time, but both House and Whittet were UAlbany athletes. House played soccer [...] Whittet was a wrestle[...]

I doubt if McNeill and Murphy took any action. I might have some other e-mails related to that exchange.

Whittet, a Communication/Psychology/Journalism triple-major, had been a particularly despicable cretin:

http://web.archive.org/web/20120213140538/http://www.thedrunklife.com/funny-pictures/cream-of-sum-yung-gi/

http://www.myspace.com/jameswhittet/blog/253075432

http://web.archive.org/web/20090217235342/http://www.thedrunklife.com/igors-v-card/the-much-anticipated-igor-pussy-progress-report/

http://www.albanystudentpress.org/2.5036/unqualified-advice-1.782306#.UVzKv78TElI

The Communication, Psychology, and Journalism departments should be so proud….

[...]

• July 9, 2012 12:42 PM

JMM to CKP and CAB [Christine A. Bouchard]

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7Mt-S77wZKfNHFBX28weWFIdkE/edit?usp=sharing

Murphy changes his mind about sending the evidence he'd twice promised in writing to send after I requested he use the federal mail service and after I mentioned that he's the Clery Act Compliance Officer. He claimed that I haven't engaged in any crime reportable under Clery, but my point was that I'd been alleged to have done so, and I'd alleged others had done so, and even allegations must be included in the Clery Act Report. He claimed to believe we'd met in McNeill's, when in fact we've never met and I'd already told him that. He again addressed me as Christopher against my politely stated request, and referred to my name changes - something mentioned in my student file. I'd been a nonmarital child, put up for adoption, and my name changed in infancy due to that; "illegitimacy" is a quasi-protected class under the constitution. I'd had a name change due to religious conversion, and back again upon leaving the religion; that too is constitutionally protected. Murphy digging in my Student File to discriminate against me on the basis of illegitimacy and/or religion might also violate FERPA. Murphy invited me on campus, despite my stated anxiety about going on campus, and McNeill's "cease and desist" referring to reducing my needs to be on campus.

• July 9, 2012 1:41 PM

CKP to JMM, CAB, GMP and TG

• July 11, 2012 1:52 PM

CLMcN to JMM, forwarding December 6, 2011 9:51 AM e-mail from CLMcN to CKP

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7Mt-S77wZKfcnRtNkhYcnVuS0U/edit?usp=sharing

Murphy should have seen that prior to his July 3, 2012 3:43 PM e-mail in which he presented the findings of his supposed research but it appears it was instead the first time he was sent it.

CLMcN to JMM, forwarding December 7, 2011 9:26 AM CLMcN to Jeanette Altarriba

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7Mt-S77wZKfNkhvSGx4TE9OWjQ/edit?usp=sharing

McNeill claimed to Altarriba the e-mail was what he'd sent me, but he'd changed the subject line, cropped parts of the e-mail out, and added a claim "P.S. I did notify the UPD Police Chief's [sic] of this directive as well." Whether he really had, I still don't know.

• July 13, 2012 9:50 AM

JMM to CKP

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7Mt-S77wZKfQ1hPdWpvakxldVE/edit?usp=sharing

He only sent evidence of some of his claims, the e-mail to Altarriba being the only thing that I hadn't seen, I think. He never sent evidence of his most significant claims, like the order being legitimate, valid, and enforceable; that UPD had it, etc.

Some later Communication Department e-mails that (of course) went unanswered:

CKP to Jeanette Altarriba, Jennifer Stromer-Galley, William Husson, Debbie A. Bourassa, George M. Philip July 29, 2012 8:50 PM

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7Mt-S77wZKfNmhISVhHQzhVc0k/edit?usp=sharing

CKP to Teresa M. Harrison, William Husson, Jennifer Stromer-Galley August 1, 2012 9:08 PM

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7Mt-S77wZKfNW42LUlYQ2JyY0U/edit?usp=sharing

You might note that those also shortly preceded the August 3, 2012 threat from McNeill, but that might be coincidental.

Chris

If only Dr. Monfasani was as concerned about academic integrity and student safety as he once was, as I hoped he still was. Instead, after getting a completely unexpected promotion subsequent to UAlbany Communication Department Professor Emeritus Alan Chartock knowing Mr. Monfasani and I had been corresponding, and after meeting with some of UAlbany's sociopaths like Clarence L. McNeill (who Monfasani had called an incompetent), Monfasani changed. Sad - not so much for me, but for all the students, faculty, staff that Barberich, Altarriba, McNeill, Murphy, Bouchard, Wulfert, Faerman, Phillips, Philip, Johnson, Schindler, McBride, Abbruzzese-Werling, Ellerman, Howard, Zimpher, etc. have grossly harmed: the raped and the "disappeared" most of all.

UAlbany: where students aren't safe from retaliation for having reported academic dishonesty, sexual harassment, etc.

The e-mail I'd sent in reply to Ms. Altarriba's false accusation of inappropriate use of technology (it might not show, but I was extremely distressed by the extent of Jeanette Altarriba's amorality in the face of Michael W. Barberich's sociopathy):

From: Christopher K. Philippo

Subject: Re: Notice on behalf of the Department of Communication

Date: December 2, 2011 5:17:52 PM EST

To: Altarriba, Jeanette

Thank you for your interesting e-mail. The notice comes rather late, as the class disappeared from Blackboard for several hours without my having received any message from Dr. Barberich about my having done anything wrong. [There was a terrible irony in someone being permitted to anonymously accuse me through Altarriba, when "Clay-for-Brains" McNeill the Incompetent had claimed the obvious, egregious plagiarism and falsification by a student that I'd reported on the basis of the student's own paper posted in full view of the entire class would require me accusing the student face-to-face in a university hearing.]

Am I a "target [for retaliation from Michael W. Barberich]," as I had been wanted I would be, despite what you wrote me [that I would not be a target for retaliation from Barberich]? I don't know if you will appreciate the humor in this, but must I be "perfect" where he must not? ;-) [Altarriba had repeatedly claimed to me that my expectations that Barberich not engage in academic dishonesty, not engage in sexual harassment, etc. were perfectionism]

Actually, I must take strong issue with the characterization of my behavior as inappropriate, and would like that noted for the record, if there is a record. I was trying to do what the Student Code asks of me, but apparently I should not do that, or I grossly misunderstand it. I will not use Blackboard 9 to send any more messages to my classmates in Intro COM Theory, if that is what requested of me. I very much need to know: what specifically was inappropriate about my use of that technology? Please let me know at your soonest convenience.

Prof. Barberich, I observe, has used that technology to post lecture notes written by his TAs that he had not credited to them as having been authored by them. I have been trying NOT to follow the bad example he is setting, but perhaps my alleged inappropriate use of the technology inadvertently did follow his example. I have been doing the best that I can in an unacceptable class under very trying circumstances [Altarriba having forced me to continue to be subjected to Barberich's offensive and alarming behavior as a condition of receiving my Communication degree and graduating after I'd reported him and sought permission to drop the class], and evidently that has not been enough. Please advise.

Is his a proper use of the technology, I wonder: failing to credit his TAs with the significant help they gave him, that the Faculty Code of Conduct seemingly requires he do? [Faculty "avoid any exploitation of students for private advantage and acknowledge significant assistance from them" http://www.albany.edu/osp/24647.php] What about any student in class who has posted plagiarized material in their Information Literacy Projects [as I'd reported to the incompetent McNeill], have they been so warned about their use of the technology?

"The lawful expression of a disagreement with the teacher or other students is not in itself 'disruptive' behavior."

http://www.albany.edu/undergraduateeducation_rd/18530.php

You did tell Professor Barberich that he would have to tell the other students what he told me, that they could use their books and notebooks for the iClicker quizzes, when you spoke with him in private after our meeting, I trust? I hope you did! [I'd written her that she should.] He has yet to do so and only has one day of class left that he can [a class that he cancelled about a half hour before it was due to meet, a class I had no intention of attending given Michael W. Barberich's escalating sociopathic behavior].

What am I supposed to do about the assignment where I am supposed to answer a question from a classmate, or from a TA if no classmate responds? I believe, if I am not mistaken (hard to say, as he's been unable to get the date right) [as another student in class had pointed out, Barberich repeatedly expressing surprise at his own continual failures] the deadline has passed without my having received a question from a TA as he [falsely, as per usual] promised.

Thank you for your attention to this matter,

Chris Philippo

"I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library." —Jorge Luis Borges

Altarriba, the habitual liar:

"Do not consider that you have become any kind of 'target' [for retaliation from Michael W. Barberich or UAlbany administrators] as some have suggested, that's simply not the case." Jeanette Altarriba to CKP, November 9, 2011 3:55:32 PM EST, "RE:what was your take on how the meeting with Dr. Barberich and me went?"

What she'd written was in response to something I'd written:

"Maybe the problem is all me or partly me, to some degree, possibly…. That's not the feedback I've been getting from retired or active professors at this university or at others, so at least I know it's not solely me. There's some other things that might deserve to be mentioned, and the old issues have continued, but that may be enough for now. Too much, maybe: some have cautioned me that by bringing such things up to you, in writing no less, I may only make a target [for retaliation] out of myself. Nevertheless, it still seems quite critical to me to raise these issues." CKP to Jeanette Altarriba, November 9, 2011 11:11 AM, "what was your take on how the meeting with Dr. Barberich and me went?"

In fact my advisors proved to be 100% correct.

Michael W. Barberich, being a particularly pathetic plagiarist, even plagiarized me in his wild efforts to keep the job he so hates doing, the job that he is so excruciatingly bad at that he has even had to make BA-candidate teaching assistants write his lectures and lecture notes for him in order to have something to present as his own work.

Clarence L. McNeill, after claiming he would speak to Dean Faerman and possibly Dean Wulfert about Barberich's crimes, spoke to Barberich and Altarriba and tipped them off that I'd reported them. Not preliminary to a hearing; there never was one - Barberich did everything he could to avoid one, given his guilt. McNeill claimed, after speaking to Barberich (or claiming to have done so), that Barberich feared I was targeting him. Barberich took my real fear of being target for retaliation by him for having reported his academic dishonesty, sexual harassment, etc. and claimed my fear as his own. Yet again, despite his PhD, he was turning to someone who did not even have a BA (me) to do his own work for him. Barberich escalated his lie to the corrupt and incompetent UAlbany police in his demonstrably false police report.

If only Barberich looked like the madman he is! He looks something like the actor David Burke who played the shlubby sidekick character Arthur the Moth on the short-lived FOX superhero sitcom The Tick. Barberich's acting skills aren't as good: he played contrite during a meeting with Altarriba, yet would on occasion erupt with irrational anger that put the lie to his act. I had written Altarriba that I would not meet with Barberich alone to go over exam questions without a witness to his behavior. She agreed to that, offering herself as the witness and her office as the location. I'd indicated that Barberich's perennial lateness to class might mean he'd be late for the meeting and I didn't want that. Altarriba's response to my concerns was to be terribly late herself for that meeting. When it quickly became apparent that Barberich had chosen to disobey Altarriba's instructions to him to bring the keys for the quiz questions and exams, rendering the meeting largely pointless, she didn't reprimand him or require him to go get them from his office down the hall. She instead stood by his every violation of faculty ethics and academic integrity. Why she has such a relationship with him would be interesting to know.

Someone at UAlbany interested in justice (I know there are such people), or someone interested in perpetuating widespread, open corruption there, I wonder? Linkedin is a bit of a tease that way.

"Freedom, yeah! Freedom: yeah right..."

From: "Altarriba, Jeanette"

Subject: Notice on behalf of the Department of Communication

Date: December 2, 2011 4:56:18 PM EST

2 December 2011

4:55 pm

Christopher Philippo:

I have been advised that you have been posting materials via BlackBoard that constitute an inappropriate use of that technology. It is inappropriate for you to use this system to post information of the nature that you have posted. This message serves as notification that your actions have constituted inappropriate behavior.

Dr. Jeanette Altarriba

Chair, Department of Communication

Ms. Altarriba never specified who "advised" her, what "materials" she was referring to, what was "inappropriate" about the "materials," if she herself had seen the "materials," etc. despite my having asked her to clarify. Whether she'd intentionally waited until less than four minutes prior to the end of the workday to send her e-mail so that she wouldn't be around to reply that day, I don't know, but has never clarified. She seemingly violated university policy by simultaneously accusing me of and finding me guilty of something; it wasn't her place to do the latter, and whether it was her place to do the former, I do not know - but I would think not. There was no due process and no notice of a right to appeal or to whom one could appeal. I guessed that she was referring to two posts I'd made to Blackboard on December 2, 2011.

"Freedom, yeah! Freedom: yeah right..."

I'd sent a message through Blackboard to the entire class. While it remained in my outbox, I never received a reply from a single person - not that I ever saw, anyhow. My access to Blackboard had ceased prior to the time Ms. Altarriba had sent her e-mail to me; the course disappeared as if I were not registered, though the course still appeared in MyUAlbany. My access was soon restored, but would then go back and forth between being available and unavailable, without explanation. I wondered if during that time someone had gone into students' mailboxes and deleted my message to them, perhaps reading other messages in those students' mailboxes, and intentionally or accidentally deleting messages unrelated to the matter. I would have expected, out of 160 people or so, a reply of some kind, even if it were "WTF is this?" or "you narc!" or something. The Blackboard mail was later disabled completely, at least for me, denying access to the entire semester's worth of messages sent and received, even those sent by the instructor of record and teaching assistants.

Sent Friday, December 2, 2011 11:03 AM

Subject Information Literacy Project questions?

Regarding the announcement about how we must respond to at least one question by "Friday, November 2nd" and that students who don't receive a question will be given one by the TAs on Wednesday (November 30th? December 7th?) (as of December 2nd, 11:00 AM the day the assignment is apparently due - contra the announcement - I have not, and I don't think I'm the only one). That may not leave all that much time to answer one, which is perhaps a little anxiety-provoking. When might we expect those?

Mind, I'm not picking on the TAs [for not having provided questions as Barberich said they would]; I hope it doesn't sound like I am. They've been put in an awkward position, e.g. having to write PowerPoints for their professor (FWIW, the first class I've ever had where that was done) and having him fail to give them acknowledgement for their work without being externally prompted [i.e. when one left her name on the PowerPoint she prepared for him to present, and... like pulling teeth... after I asked him]. That acknowledgement about who wrote the PowerPoints (and iClicker questions, exam questions, etc.?) has only on rare occasions been given in class, and except for one PowerPoint was only done orally, and many students may have missed that acknowledgement [by not being present those days, or by not paying attention]. The TAs' work also is uncredited, again with one exception, on Blackboard where their slides appear in the lecture notes. Perhaps an announcement or message in writing on Blackboard about who wrote what might be an appropriate and a proper show of gratitude to the TAs for all their unpaid work authoring the class behind the scenes.

Also, I wanted to check again about what the uncredited source for the diagrams in yesterday's PowerPoint was? Some of the text in it was terribly small, rendering it terribly hard to read. That the diagram was included in the lecture implies that it was something we should learn, so it would be useful to know who created it and to be able to read it. On the other hand, that a man with a doctorate in Communication [Michael W. Barberich] didn't know where they came from might imply they weren't important, so I suppose that could be clarified as to whether we should learn that material or not.

When I'd turned in the third exam, I'd circled a number of spelling errors on it. I'd spoken to the undergraduate TAs and noted there was a more significant error conflating "infer" with "imply"that rendered a question without a correct answer as written. I asked later by e-mail how that was handled, and was told I'd have to ask the professor. Since the answer might be of interest to the whole class, it seems appropriate to let them all hear the question too. I don't mean to sound like a perfectionist: I'm really not. I'm as imperfect as they come and I naturally recognize people are necessarily fallible... though I note the evaluation rubric for the Information Literacy Project Part 1 will lower the grade for even a single misspelling or grammatical error.

Sincerely,

Chris Philippo

Was it "inappropriate use of technology" to ask a question of the professor the professor's own TAs indicated I would have to ask him? To ask for the sources of diagrams that had been in a lecture when they might be on the upcoming final exam and when the professor in class had stated that the diagrams should have been properly cited after I asked him about it in class? To suggest that the TAs should be given proper credit for their work by the professor, etc.?

Does Ms. Altarriba believe, as what she wrote on behalf of the entire Communication department appeared to indicate, that TAs should not receive proper credit for their work, professors should refuse to answer questions about material in their (TAs') lectures, etc.? Does the entire Communication department share Ms. Altarriba's beliefs?

"The University respects freedom of expression in all electronic forms on its computing and networking systems."

http://wiki.albany.edu/display/public/askit/Responsible+Use+of+Information+Technology+Policy

"The University reaffirms its commitment to the principle that the widest possible scope for freedom of expression is the foundation of an institution dedicated to vigorous inquiry, robust debate, and the continuous search for a proper balance between freedom and order. The University seeks to foster an environment in which persons who are on its campus legitimately may express their views as widely and as passionately as possible; at the same time, the University pledges to provide the greatest protection available for controversial, unpopular, dissident, or minority opinions. The University believes that censorship is always suspect, that intimidation is always repugnant, and that attempts to discourage constitutionally protected expression may be antithetical to the University's essential missions: to discover new knowledge and to educate."

http://www.albany.edu/senate/handbook_section2.htm

To learn how Barberich's failure to have his TAs provide students questions (which was itself something he came up with to cover for another one of his typical failures), I had to file a FOIL request for my own grades for his class. Barberich had never provided all my grades to me, my department advisor didn't help me obtain them, Assistant Dean Brian Gabriel didn't help me obtain them, the Registrar's Office didn't help me, etc. It turned out I'd been given 15/15 on the Information Literacy Project Part 2 when I hadn't been able to complete that part of the assignment at all. Not completing the project was supposed to result in failing the class, not that it would be at all fair for a student to fail the class due to Michael W. Barberich's numerous failures as an instructor.

UAlbany does a fine job of claiming to protect free speech, dissent, and so forth, but in actuality it is perfectly happy to violate the New York State Constitution and the United States Constitution left and right.