Five - The King's New Clothes

YOU BE THE JURY!

AFTER YOU FINISH READING

THIS THUG INSTALLMENT 5 
AND REVIEW ALL THE EVIDENCE,

YOU WILL GET THE CHANCE TO VOTE!  

GUILTY... OR NOT GUILTY? 

IS F. KING ALEXANDER A LIAR? 

SHOULD LSU HIRE HIM? 

SHOULD CSULB FIRE HIM? 

YOU DECIDE!

(And don't forget to go back and read Installments 1 through 4 at some point!  But THUG is cleverly designed to be read in any order, so starting here is wonderful!)

INSTALLMENT 5

THE KING'S NEW CLOTHES

"What are you going to do about Lane?"

The question hung in the air as CSULB President Fieldon King Alexander stared down College of The Arts Dean Donald Para. It was April 2008, and Para had already written, memorized, and practiced his answer.

"I set a meeting with him. It's under control," he said.

Alexander started to say something, but then he didn't. He didn't need to. He'd seen Para's eyes drop. Alexander had Para exactly where he wanted him. The younger man had the older man needy and cowed. If only Alexander could rein in his own father, his life might not be the secret wreck that it was. Alexander turned away from Para and did not turn back until he was sure Para was gone. 

Alexander reveled in his power, but he preferred that people got beat up off-screen; a perfect day for Fieldon King Alexander at CSULB was a day free of confrontation and surprise, a day when no one talked to him about anything at all. 

Then again, he longed for those good old days when there was no consequence for a lack of impulse control, when he could cheat on his wife, have her tolerate it, and get patted on the back by those who knew what he was about. Even better when a jealous husband chased him out the door, gun in hand. Adrenalin, oxytocin, cortisol, endorphins, all that chemical rush, there was no beating it. Shooting hoops in high school and college was nothing compared to illicit sex or the winning hand in a confidence game. See, it wasn't really about achieving a goal, it was about someone else losing and being made a fool of, even if they didn't know it. The thing was, you knew it. You knew the control you had over your victim, so much control that you could savor the inevitable Dosey Doe that made each victory pinwheel with crackles of electricity again and again. Ah, the smell of watts and ozone in the morning. First the victim was unaware his pocket had been picked -- that was hot; then, when the victim later became aware of the loss, that was hot all over again; and then, the crowning glory, the molten pregnant spurt, as the victim realizes you done it and there's not a damn thing he can do to change things. Game, set match, and jerk off over it every time it comes to mind.

But, for The King Alexander, there wasn't much chance for "the old in-out" now that he was stuck in the grind at CSULB, now that he spent most of every day trying to cover his tracks so he wouldn't lose his ill-gotten gains. Nothing worse than success really, particularly when you overspent, needed the money, and worried that any minute someone would be on to your game.

To that extent and so many others when it came to King Alexander and his Papa, Samuel Kern Alexander Jr., the old sayings were the best sayings: "like father like son, the nut never falls too far from the tree".

Walking across the concrete atop The Stairway to Nowhere, heading to the far southern end of campus where his office lay, Dean Para felt relieved, and lighter with each step that carried him further from his boss, The King Alexander.

Lane was Para's best friend, he would listen to reason, he would accept Para's assurances that the imposters were being investigated and the hostile environment would eventually blow away. Don't go to the press, sit tight for a few weeks, and Summer will be here. By Fall, this whole mess will be behind us. That would be Para's pitch. But he knew it begged the question. When he was healthy, Lane was dangerous because he had no fear and he was a true believer in his principles. Lane was a zealot for truth, and he did not care if he was fired. That latter fact separated him out from everyone else on campus. Worse, he got energized when confronted, rarely slept, and had no patience for the usual academic administrative sloth. (Frankly, it was a wonder Lane wasn't a premature birth.) And he had no respect for people knowing their place or for places knowing their limitations. Lane actually seemed to think that CSULB was just like the University of Chicago or other great schools where argument and discourse was the lifeblood of knowledge and learning and higher ideals. 

In the extant situation, Lane thought that it would help the school's reputation by outing imposters, admitting that good folks had been flimflammed, but proving that the school was ever vigilant in questioning and vetting and making everyone prove and re-prove their merits. Lane was not in favor of the tenure system, complaining loud and long about incompetent and cowardly professors who were hiding behind it and letting down their worthy students. He had excelled in the entertainment industry because he always had an answer to the refrain: What have you done for me lately? So that meant he never thought anyone or anything was good enough, let alone himself; every day was meant to be a new and impossible challenge, and no day could end until something noteworthy had been accomplished. 

Para knew that, when healthy, Lane was not about to back off his demands that the school man up and do the right thing, but Lane was goal-directed about handling things with a modicum of discretion in order to obtain the right results and not embarrass the innocent. It generally worked to tell Lane that due process needed to be afforded to bad men if penalties against them were to be made to stick. However, considering that Lane was terribly unhealthy and terribly mortal at the moment, something physically wrong that had yet to be diagnosed but was obvious to Para, there was every reason to worry that there might be nothing at all that Para could do to head Lane off. A weakened Lane was likely even more entrenched than a healthy one who might have some reason to which Para could appeal. The one thing you don't ask a dying man is to give you more time to get back to him.

Para needed an angle, and if it couldn't be reason or a bribe or a threat, then it would have to be oblique, dihedral, unexpected, a different animal altogether.

But, the more Para tried to plan a way to manipulate Lane, the more some shadowy worries began to float through the back of his mind. The fact was that Lane had absolutely positively unequivocally nailed two CSULB professors who had falsified their credentials. Lane had gotten the highest administrators at Columbia University to go on record that the professors in question did not have degrees and previous employment at Columbia, no matter that they claimed otherwise in order to get jobs and promotion at CSULB. And Lane had gotten film producers and film festival archivists and the Writers Guild to go on record that the professors did not have the entertainment industry credits and awards that they'd claimed. Lane had painstakingly researched the Curricula Vitae of those two professors, line by line, objectively searching for the truth, as initially reluctant and ultimately appalled and embarrassed as Para and Smith and Pounds and everyone else at CSULB were to have to accept that they'd all been conned. At first Lane had even considered the possibility that one of the profs had Alzheimer's Disease and that the strangely misstated credits reflected a sad medical reality rather than sociopathy. Behind the scenes, Lane had even lobbied to get health care and benefits for that professor. But then it became clear that "crazy like a fox" was the modus operandi. In fact, the Occam's Razor truth was as remarkably simple as it should have been: the two professors were lifelong fully determined imposters, and they were damned good at it. Why bother to do the work when you can jump right to the rewards? 

But, after enough vetting and a little confrontation from Lane, there was no doubt what sort of men these were.

So the real question was, why was CSULB President F. King Alexander protecting them? He'd had nothing to do with their hires and he barely knew them personally. What sense did it make that he was willing to completely cover up their crimes? Alexander's fear of bad headlines was not a sufficient or rational explanation; and, as Lane had suggested, those headlines could be easily spun to the positive and would even aid Alexander in his drive to gut the tenure system.

Para shook himself, a shiver really. He didn't like where these thoughts were taking him. He didn't like it at all. He needed to do whatever it would take to keep Lane in line and thereby take himself very far off Alexander's radar.

When Alexander first interviewed for what would become his job at CSULB, one of his interviewers told Lane that Alexander was "just like John Edwards". At the time, that was meant as a compliment. Later it would turn out to be the ultimate insult, and more true than anyone ever imagined.

As soon as Lane heard that Alexander had been hired in late Fall 2005, Lane shot him an e-mail at Murray State University. Alexander replied, and the two men shared a few friendly e-mails prior to Alexander's arrival in Long Beach. Lane helped pre-sell his friend Don Para to Alexander, to allay Para's terror that Alexander was not a friend of the arts, let alone the Dean of The College of The Arts. In fact, Alexander is totally left brain, a numbers mumbler and nothing much more. Sports is as artistic as he gets. For that reason, when Lane convinced Alexander to come guest lecture at Lane's open forum human epistemology Utopia class early in 2006, the appearance was an unexpected disaster. 

The week before, CSULB former President Bob Maxson had guest lectured in the class, coming in fully prepared and responsive to the course topics at hand, engaging the sixty-five students in discussion and debate, stirring up questions, playing along, being fun and funny, a memorable two and half hour show. On the other hand, Alexander came in with a twenty minute Kiwanis Club canned ham of talking points about University enrollments and graduation rates, delivered in a drone that would put a monotone to sleep, and the kids' eyes all glazed over. Even when Lane tried to save Alexander by handing him a verbal bridge from the pre-fab comments to issues of concern to the students and the course, Alexander just stammered and ran out of gas. The stuporous students had literally no questions for Alexander. Lane gracefully thanked him, put the class on break, and walked Alexander out. Lane knew that Maxson had been appointed by the Chancellor to mentor Alexander; now Lane hoped that Maxson would hurry and that Alexander would listen, but it sure seemed like Alexander needed drinks and drugs more than mentoring. 

As he bid Alexander adieu and thanks, Lane made sure to let Alexander know about Lane's efforts to implement the Masters of Fine Arts in Dramatic Writing Degree Program (MFA DW) that year, and the imminent likelihood of a substantial Spielberg donation should the program come to pass. Lane wanted Alexander to get actively involved, but all Alexander could say was "I've got people who do that". In subsequent years, Alexander would always make reference to "my people" whenever Lane would ask him to do anything or be responsible for anything.  In fact, Alexander did have people, and lots of them. 

Following the academic financing model of his father, Kern, The King tripled the number of key campus administrators, increasing the cost of administration to more than the cost of actual classroom education, while drastically reducing the number of full-time teachers. King Alexander's idea of leadership is to hire lots of managers to run things, while he runs around the country giving speeches and looking for bigger and better jobs for himself. When he arrived at CSULB, The King made it known that his intent was to become Chancellor of the CSU system when his godfather Charlie Reed would retire; the plan was for the Presidency of CSULB to be a short-term layover. But that plan went awry. First, The King decided he wanted to be Education Secretary or something equally important for the new Obama administration in 2009, but that didn't come to pass. Then The King applied for the impending CSU Chancellorship in 2012, but was allowed to withdraw his application when he did not come out atop the search process. No one has publicly explained why Alexander didn't get either gig, but the answer to that became obvious just recently. 

It's the same answer that Para didn't want to see, and the answer that totally eluded Lane for years.

As Lane walked Alexander from class in Spring 2006, there was one other issue that Lane raised. He would repeat it to Alexander in Fall 2006 when the two men were part of a University panel called "The Ethical is Personal", each panelist making a public presentation and answering audience questions about "ethical issues facing students today". One of the other panelists was CSULB donor Mick Ukleja, founder of The Ukleja Center for Ethical Leadership. Ukleja listened in consternation as, in his speech and comments, Lane addressed the issue of phony credentials and the easy use of the internet to substitute lies for achievements. In his conclusion, Lane pointedly referenced the temptation for both students and professors to cheat and the need for everyone to keep everyone else honest, that vetting and questioning what you were taught and told were critical aspects of intellectual curiosity and real learning.

As the panel broke, Alexander hustled Lane away from Ukleja, telling Lane not to imply there were any issues with credentials at CSULB and not to create any problems with Ukleja. When Lane tried to give Alexander more details about professorial credits problems, Alexander cut Lane off, same as he'd done after class a few months before. On both occasions, Lane assumed Alexander was simply protecting donations. 

That would prove to be a wrong assumption. 

In January 2013, after enduring five years of retaliation for his whistle blowing as to professorial imposture and Alexander's corrupt management of the University budget (coming in a later Installment of THUG!), Lane entered into a legal settlement with Alexander, Para, and the CSU. This ended the many grievances and legal complaints that Lane had filed to try to force Alexander and Para to be held to account under oath and under law. Lane made the settlement because he got everything he wanted in the final negotiation, but no settlement would have been possible had Para not come to Lane the month before to freely and fully admit that Lane had been the victim of retaliation promulgated by Alexander. With that closure, and the knowledge that Alexander had just failed to get the CSU Chancellorship and was staying at CSULB, Lane wanted to get as far away from Alexander and Para and the CSU as possible. The MFA DW had been murdered, the Spielberg donation co-opted and then ended, Alexander and Para would stop at nothing to build monuments to themselves and their bank accounts out of the shards of student dreams they were personally responsible for demolishing, and there was nothing more Lane could do to stop them. David might take Goliath in a one-rounder, but go nine innings and tanks Tiananmenize truth, at least until the Jedi strike back.

So, outside of the settlement, Para wrote a detailed personal and public recommendation for Lane, totally clearing his name of all the false allegations that Para and Alexander and the CSU had made during the retaliations; while, within the settlement, financial incentives covered Lane's legal costs and more, and Lane agreed to stay fully employed at CSULB until he would reach the age and retirement pension rate he wanted more than a year later.

A month after the settlement was signed and celebrated by Lane and his friends and family, the CSU breached it. Para was mortified. CSU counsel tried to deny it. Lane was certain that Alexander was behind it, even though that seemed to make no sense. New legal complaints were immediately filed by Lane and the faculty union. It is an open and shut case. Why would Alexander want to be forced to testify after all, after he had gotten out from under that threat via the settlement? And why would he act in such a way as to make his loyal Provost -- Para -- appear to all the world to be a liar? Para's recommendation letter for Lane was undercut by the CSU and Alexander's breach.

Days later, all the questions were answered. Fieldon King Alexander was about to be named the new President/Chancellor of the Louisiana State University system (LSU). He was only too happy to take his parting shots at those at CSULB who had criticized him, determined to falsely destroy character, reputations, and careers, and he felt absolutely inviolate, insulated, and beyond the reach of any complaints or suits left behind in California.

But the faculty at LSU is not so sheepish as the faculty at CSULB. Within minutes of the announcement that Alexander was to be hired, the LSU Faculty Senate gave a unanimous vote of "NO CONFIDENCE!" to the secret process by which Alexander was chosen as "the only applicant".

Yes, you heard that right.

The LSU Board of Supervisors split their ranks so that no meeting would have a quorum and therefore no record was kept; three dozen "candidates" were evaluated via individual Supervisors' e-mails and conversations off the record; and, in the end, when Alexander was "chosen" thanks to the behind-the-scenes skid-greasing from his father and godfather, he was then told to finally and officially "apply". That is, he had sent in his stuff and been reviewed and chosen, but he wasn't actually "an applicant" until after he'd already been given the job.

Supposedly, this tortured procedure of infinite obfuscation was intentionally designed to protect the identities of those who applied for the job but didn't get it. Alexander himself told the press that he would not have sought the job if word about that would have gotten out.

Of course, that's absurd and utterly untrue and creates a separate set of rules for University Presidents than for any other job in America, including the President of The United States. But, then again, both the CSULB and the LSU Presidents get a higher salary and more perks and outside income than the President of The United States.  (More on Alexander's position on this in a later Installment of THUG!).

Meanwhile, as the LSU Faculty Senate made their feelings known, reporters and newspapers in Louisiana filed suits to force the LSU Board of Supervisors to cough up all the details and data and names and credentials of all the candidates who had been judged inferior to Alexander.

And LSU decided to justify their choice by posting Alexander's Curriculum Vitae on their website.

Big fucking mistake.

What's the opposite of deja vu? That's what Brian Lane asked himself after he came across F. King Alexander's C.V. on the LSU website. Because the instant he saw the C.V., Lane realized he'd never seen it before. In the very nearly eight years that Alexander had been at CSULB, his C.V. had never been posted or circulated, it had been quietly absent, so quiet and so absent that no one had realized it was missing.

Well, not no one. As soon as Lane downloaded the C.V. from LSU, he phoned up CSU folks who must have seen it back in Fall 2005 when Alexander was hired.  And what Lane was told restored his faith in deja vu after all.

Seems that Alexander's hiring at CSULB was just as mysterious and "off the record" as his appointment at LSU.

The CSULB campus did an initial advertised search for a President in 2005. The two finalists who came out of that search and were sent on to the CSU Board of Trustees for final disposition were F. King Alexander from Murray State University in Kentucky, and then current CSULB Provost Gary Reichard.

The latter was and is a brilliant scholar and honorable man, an esteemed history professor, writer, and lover of the arts who rose to Provost. His credentials were all very public and accurate, and, as a longtime professor, he'd been through many peer reviews by Committees and Deans and Provosts, leading to promotions, merit pay increases, and tenure. His Provostship was unimpeachable, and his ascendancy to the President's office seemed inevitable once Bob Maxson announced his retirement.

But Reichard had two things working against him. The first was that CSU Chancellor Charles Reed was F. King Alexander's godfather and he had a plan to get his godson hired as President at CSULB and heir apparent to Reed's Chancellorship. The second thing that Reichard had working against him was that he was gay, and he lived his lifestyle in an "old school" way. Meaning, he and his partner Osvaldo were in the closet to those they weren't close to, and discreetly out of the closet otherwise. Sometimes this meant showing up at University functions as if they weren't there together, at least not in an obvious way. In fact, Reichard simply treated his personal life as personal, and more power to him.

But, off the record at the CSU Board of Trustees, Reichard's sexual orientation was an issue. Certain Trustees felt it was relevant that Reichard was gay, and others felt that it was even more relevant that he was closeted. The illegality of such considerations seemed not to strike the Trustees as relevant at all.

So, when Reichard was interviewed by the Board, he was deemed "not as exciting" as King Alexander "the John Edwards guy". Bearing in mind that Reichard was a known commodity who'd done a terrific job as CSULB Provost and had the total respect of the faculty and the administration, the final decision on hiring very much turned on credentials and credibility.

And that's the blind where godfather Charlie Reed watched and waited for this moment, his moment.

It was indeed ducks on the pond, the perfect set-up, no one saw him coming, he just had to close his eyes and fire away.

Reed hired an outside service to vet Alexander's C.V. before that C.V. was shown to the CSU Board of Trustees. Then the representative of that service showed up at the Trustees, and in an appearance that lasted less time than it takes to boil a three minute egg, he advised the Board that the C.V. was affirmed. For that reason, the Trustees never discussed or debated its contents.

Instead, after more off the record discussion, and with Reed's beaming approval, the CSU Board of Trustees decided they would bargain behind the scenes to get Reichard the open job of CSU Vice Chancellor and Chief Academic Officer (which he had not applied for) while they handed the CSULB Presidency to F. King Alexander, godson of the Chancellor and "that John Edwards guy" who also happened to be straight. 

Not a straight arrow, as it would turn out, but straight in terms of sexual preference.

And, as Lane had realized to his absolute horror and excitement when he saw Alexander's C.V. on the LSU website, the reason that Alexander's C.V. had not been fully and publicly vetted at CSULB and the CSU, and the reason that F. King Alexander was freaked into retaliation when Lane had begun his crusade against professors with bogus claims for credit, was that Alexander himself was a lying sack of shit whose own credits were inflated, exaggerated, misstated, misleading, and utterly fabricated.

F. King Alexander is an imposter.

And LSU is about to compensate him $651,00 a year for his dishonesty.

But, forget what Lane thinks.  

YOU BE THE JUDGE.  YOU BE THE JURY.

HERE'S THE EVIDENCE, AND HERE'S HOW TO APPROACH IT.

What Lane learned when he first faced the C.V.s of professors who would prove to be imposters was that the way they stated their false credits followed a pattern. This was confirmed to Lane by FBI profilers and academic reporters who had studied these sorts of folks over the years. As you review Alexander's C.V., keep your eyes peeled for the following:

1. Imposters add redundant entries and unnecessary pages to their C.V.s so the volume is harder to vet.

2. Imposters mess up dates and numbers. On the one hand they do this in ways which enhance their credits, on the other hand they do it to make it hard to be vetted. When caught, they pretend these are "typos", and they blame secretaries and publicists and others who typed their C.V.s for them. Alternatively, they simply claim that such "errors" are minor. On analysis, it always turns out that the errant information was critical and material to those who were deciding whether or not to hire the Imposter. You might think the error minor, but the relevant hiring person does not. As well, were you a student turning in such errant citations, you would be graded "F".

3. Academic imposters mess up citations and annotations by dropping out names of co-writers, neglecting to define roles with any designation, deleting punctuation and parentheses in a seemingly inconsistent way. But, once analyzed, it becomes clear that each such "error" always comes out making the Imposter seem to have a bigger better credit. And, per usual, such "errors" make it harder to vet the claims. Once again, were you a student turning in such errant citations, you would be graded "F".

4. Imposters pretend that speculative projects are real, and they do so by tying the names of other people to their non-existent work. Speculative projects are an absolute no-no for any form of academic credit since they have not and cannot be peer-reviewed, but Imposters list them anyway, presuming that most people will not check or will at worst decline to give them credit. Caught with speculative credits, Imposters smile and act ingenuous, pretending to be overzealous rather than crooked. 

5. If speculative or bogus credits fall through the cracks and are accepted, the Imposters thereafter revise their C.V.s to upgrade the speculative and the fake to real. By this sort of bootstrapping, Imposter C.V.s build up over time until they are full of credits for works and awards that don't exist.

6. When caught, Imposters insist that their phony assertions are "approximately" or "essentially" the same as reality. (For example, once Columbia denied that the two CSULB phony professors ever taught or matriculated at Columbia, the phony profs gamely claimed that they took or taught classes or got degrees that were "just like" classes and degrees offered by Columbia.)

NOW LET'S LOOK AT F. KING ALEXANDER'S CURRENT CURRICULUM VITAE, FROM THE LSU WEBSITE.  JUST TO ORIENT YOU, HERE ARE PAGES 1 AND 2 OF THE 19 PAGE DOCUMENT. (Note: you can click on any image in THUG to enlarge and then click again to enlarge it even bigger.) Then click the back arrow button to return to the chapter.)

AND HERE IS A LINK TO THE ENTIRE DOCUMENT. 

Click here to see Alexander's resume posted on the LSU website. 

FOLLOW THE BOUNCING BALL AND SING ALONG!

BECAUSE HERE'S WHAT WE ARE GOING TO DO. YOUR THUG EDITOR IS GOING TO POINT YOU TO VARIOUS ITEMS IN THE C.V., FOLLOWING THE DOCUMENT PAGES IN NUMERICAL ORDER. WE ARE NOT GOING TO DISCUSS EVERY ITEM HERE, JUST THE KEY ONES. BUT WE ARE HAPPY TO DISCUSS ANY ITEM IN THE COMMENTS GIVE AND TAKE, SO FEEL FREE TO ASK ABOUT ANY ONE YOU WANT. WE ARE HAPPY TO VET IT FOR YOU AND TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO HAVE FUN VETTING IT YOURSELF! BUT WE DO NOT WANT TO OVERWHELM YOU WITH DISCUSSION OF EVERY ITEM IN ALL 19 PAGES RIGHT HERE, NOR WILL THIS BLOGSPOT ALLOW US ENOUGH DATA SPACE TO DO SO. BUT, ONCE YOU SEE THAT THE KEY ITEMS ARE ALL BIG LIES, YOU WILL REALIZE WHAT WE REALIZED: F. KING ALEXANDER IS A CON MAN.

ALEXANDER'S C.V.

"PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE", PAGE 1 ET SEQ

1.  ON PAGE 1 OF HIS C.V., AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE, ALEXANDER SAYS THAT, AS PRESIDENT OF CSULB, HE OVERSAW AN "ANNUAL OPERATING BUDGET (OF) APPROXIMATELY $500 MILLION." HE SAID THAT IN ORDER TO JUSTIFY HIS PURSUIT OF THE LSU PRESIDENT/CHANCELLOR'S JOB WHERE HE WOULD OVERSEE AN OPERATING BUDGET OF $3.3 BILLION.

BUT HERE IS CSULB'S ACTUAL OPERATING BUDGET: 

AS YOU CAN SEE, IT IS NOT $500 MILLION, IT IS $330 MILLION. ALEXANDER HAS INTENTIONALLY MISSTATED AND INFLATED THIS BUDGET BY MORE THAN 50% IN ORDER TO MAKE HIMSELF LOOK EXPERIENCED FOR THE VASTLY LARGER BUDGETS HE WILL FACE AT LSU.  HIS USE OF THE WORD "APPROXIMATE" HARDLY COVERS A 50% AND $170 MILLION LIE! IF YOU ARE THE MANAGER OF AN AM/PM MINI-MART, YOU DON'T GET TO SAY THAT'S "APPROXIMATELY THE SAME" AS BEING CEO OF WAL-MART.

2.  NEXT, ALSO ON PAGE 1 OF HIS C.V., ALEXANDER LAUDS THE HIGH NUMBER OF STUDENT APPLICATIONS FOR ADMISSION. HIS INTENT IS TO CLAIM THAT THIS WAS DUE TO HIS PRESIDENCY. IN FACT IT WAS DUE TO THE RECESSION. APPLICATION NUMBERS FOR EACH AND EVERY CSU CAMPUS SKYROCKETED DURING THAT PERIOD. WHAT ALEXANDER FAILS TO MENTION IS THAT, AS APPLICATIONS AND DEMAND ROSE, HE CUT ENROLLMENTS AND PERSONALLY RAISED STUDENTS FEES EVEN AS THE CSU ALSO RAISED TUITION. ALL TO HELP FUND HIS MASSIVE EXPANSION IN MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION AND SPORTS PUBLIC RELATIONS, AT THE COST OF EDUCATION.

3. ALSO ON PAGE 1 OF HIS C.V., ALEXANDER LUMPS TOGETHER UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STATISTICS ACROSS CAREFULLY SELECTED GROUPS OF YEARS, COMMENDING HIMSELF FOR INCREASED GRADUATION NUMBERS. WHAT HE DECLINES TO ADMIT IS THAT THE 4 YEAR UNDERGRADUATE GRADUATION RATE IS DESPICABLE AND DEPRESSING -- JUST OVER 12%. HE HAS RAISED IT BY MERE TENTHS OF A POINT, AND HE HAS DONE SO BY RAISING ENTRY LEVEL REQUIREMENTS AND CUTTING ENROLLMENTS. THE 5 YEAR GRADUATION RATE IS EQUALLY PATHETIC, AND THE 6 YEAR RATE IS AROUND 50%. IN THE END, MORE THAN ONE-THIRD OF ENTERING STUDENTS NEVER EVER GRADUATE FROM CSULB. 

AT THE SAME TIME, AS ALEXANDER BRAGS ABOUT ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE GRADUATES, HE HAS OUTRIGHT CUT THE OPPORTUNITY FOR STUDENTS TO DOUBLE-MAJOR IN ENGINEERING. AND THE NUMBER OF PHYSICS MAJORS HAS DROPPED TO A DOZEN OR LESS. THERE ARE NOW MORE FULL-TIME PHYSICS TEACHERS THAN THERE ARE STUDENTS IN THE MAJOR. OTHER MAJORS -- LIKE THEATRE -- SHOW EQUALLY OUTRAGEOUS DECLINES UNDER ALEXANDER. WHEN YOU SEE THAT HE LUMPS UNDERGRADUATE BUSINESS MAJORS AND MBA STUDENTS TOGETHER TO HYPE THEIR GRADUATION NUMBERS, YOU SHOULD FIND THAT UNCOMFORTABLE. CLEARLY IT DISGUISES REDUCED NUMBERS FOR EITHER GROUP SEPARATELY. THIS IS "THE KING'S MATH". 

4. ON PAGE 2 OF HIS C.V., ALEXANDER TAKES CREDIT FOR NEW BUILDING PROJECTS, MOST OF WHICH WERE INITIATED AND APPROVED BEFORE ALEXANDER WAS HIRED. ALSO, IN TWO SEPARATE LINE ITEMS -- AS IF THESE WERE TWO SEPARATE ACTS -- HE TAKES CREDIT FOR THE SAME PURCHASE OF AN OLD BROOKS NURSING SCHOOL BUILDING OFF-CAMPUS WHICH WAS BOUGHT AND TURNED INTO STUDENT HOUSING. AND, ONCE AGAIN, THIS PROJECT BEGAN BEFORE ALEXANDER CAME TO CSULB.

5. ON PAGE 2 OF HIS C.V., ALEXANDER ANNOUNCES THAT HE INCREASED THE CSULB ENDOWMENT BY 95% OVER HIS NEARLY 8 YEARS ON THE JOB. THE HARD NUMBER IS ABOUT A $22 MILLION INCREASE TO ITS CURRENT TOTAL OF $45 MILLION. VIRTUALLY ALL OF THIS IS FROM ONE ESTATE GIFT WHICH WAS BEING NEGOTIATED LONG BEFORE ALEXANDER ARRIVED, AND WAS COURTED BY PARA AND THE COLLEGE OF THE ARTS DEVELOPMENT TEAM, NOT ALEXANDER. LAST YEAR, THE ENDOWMENT INCREASED A NOT-SO-WHOPPING $1 MILLION FROM $44 TO $45 MILLION.

ADDITIONALLY, ENDOWMENT VALUES -- WHICH CONTAIN REAL ESTATE -- ARE SUBJECT TO MARKET FLUCTUATIONS. ALEXANDER'S CLAIMED CREDIT INCLUDES UPTICKS IN CALIFORNIA REAL ESTATE VALUES, NOT NEW ENDOWMENT GIFTS. 

ALSO, AS THUG READERS KNOW FROM THE SPIELBERG DOCUMENTS, DONOR GIFTS TO CSULB OFTEN HAVE "CONDITIONS SUBSEQUENT" WHICH ALLOW DONORS TO RESCIND OR END THEIR PLEDGES BEFORE ALL THE PROMISED VALUE IS DELIVERED. ALEXANDER'S CLAIMED ENDOWMENT INCLUDES PLEDGES (LIKE WILLIAM LINK) WHICH WENT UNFULFILLED. REGARDLESS, $22 MILLION OF CUMULATIVE ENDOWMENT RAISED OVER NEARLY 8 YEARS OF HIS STEWARDSHIP IS HARDLY A NUMBER FOR ALEXANDER TO BE PROUD OF ON AN ANNUALIZED BASIS. AND THE COSTS OF HIS BLOATED DEVELOPMENT TEAMS EAT DRAMATICALLY INTO THIS FUNDRAISING.

6. ON PAGE 2 OF HIS C.V., ALEXANDER ANNOUNCES THAT HE HAS RAISED $180 MILLION IN CUMULATIVE DONATIONS OVER HIS NEARLY 8 YEARS. YET HE HAS CONSISTENTLY ANNOUNCED WILDLY DIFFERENT NUMBERS AT EACH YEAR'S CSULB CONVOCATION.

HERE IS WHAT HE CLAIMED AT THE CONVOCATION LAST AUGUST 2012:

YES, HE CLAIMED $200 MILLION. BUT SOMEHOW THAT NUMBER DROPPED RATHER THAN WENT UP IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS BEFORE HE APPLIED TO LSU. ODD, WOULDN'T YOU AGREE? NOW HERE'S ODDER. THIS IS WHAT ALEXANDER CLAIMED AS CUMULATIVE DONATIONS IN AUGUST 2011:

NOTE THAT, AT CONVOCATION 2011, HE CLAIMED $22 MILLION WAS THE FOURTH HIGHEST-GROSSING YEAR OF DONATIONS IN CSULB HISTORY, GIVING HIM A TOTAL CUMULATIVE OF $120 MILLION SINCE HE BECAME PRESIDENT. YET, ONE YEAR LATER HE CLAIMED AN $80 MILLION INCREASE TO $200 MILLION! THAT'S A 67% INCREASE IN ONE YEAR OVER THE ENTIRE CUMULATIVE TOTAL FROM THE PREVIOUS SIX YEARS! AND THEN A FEW MONTHS LATER HE DROPS THAT TOTAL BY 10% WHEN PREPARING HIS C.V. FOR LSU. THE SIMPLE REALITY IS THAT HE INFLATED NUMBERS WILLY-NILLY TO WOW WHATEVER AUDIENCE HE WAS TRYING TO IMPRESS. TO DO SO, HE INCLUDED REVOCABLE PLEDGES THAT DIDN'T COME THROUGH, AND HE DOUBLE-COUNTED PLEDGES THAT DID. BASED ON HIS REFERENCE TO "GIFTS AND PLEDGES", HE INCLUDED ENDOWMENT MONEY AND PLEDGES IN THE DONATIONS TO HIS "CAPITAL CAMPAIGN INITIATIVE" NUMBERS. SO THE ENDOWMENT DOLLARS WERE COUNTED TWICE IN ORDER TO INFLATE THE CAPITAL CAMPAIGN NUMBERS. EITHER THAT OR HE MADE THEM UP OUT OF WHOLE CLOTH. LET'S ASK HIM WHICH IT WAS, SHALL WE?

7.  BACK ON PAGE 1 OF HIS C.V., ALEXANDER LISTS HIS TIME AT CSULB AS "2005-PRESENT". THIS IS ONE OF THOSE DATE FUDGES THAT IMPOSTERS DO. TECHNICALLY, ALEXANDER MOVED TO LONG BEACH DURING DECEMBER 2005, AND WAS TRANSITIONING INTO HIS JOB DURING THE WINTER BREAK BETWEEN SEMESTERS. BUT THE CORRECT WAY TO CITE THIS IS BY STATING "DECEMBER 2005-PRESENT". INSTEAD, BY STATING "2005" WITHOUT THE MONTH, READERS AND REVIEWERS WILL INTERPRET THIS TO MEAN THAT ALEXANDER WAS PRESIDENT OF CSULB THROUGHOUT ALL OF 2005. YOU MAY THINK THIS INCONSEQUENTIAL, BUT IT'S NOT, AND IT PRESAGES MORE IMPORTANT CREDIT CLAIMS WHICH ARE FALSELY STATED LATER IN THER C.V..

8. ON PAGE 2 OF ALEXANDER'S C.V., HE CITES HIS WORK AS AN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS CHAMPAIGN-URBANA. THIS WAS HIS ONE AND ONLY UNIVERSITY PROFESSORSHIP, FRESH OFF OF OBTAINING HIS PH.D. FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON. ASSISTANT PROFESSOR AT ILLINOIS IS THE LOWEST RANKING TENURE TRACK POSITION. ALEXANDER WAS THERE FOR 4 YEARS, AND THEN HIS FATHER KERN HANDED HIM THE PRESIDENCY AT MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY. KING NEVER FACED A PROMOTION OR TENURE REVIEW AT ILLINOIS, AND HE HAS NEVER FACED ONE IN HIS ENTIRE LIFE. HE HAS NEVER BEEN PROMOTED AT ANY GIVEN INSTITUTION. HE JUMPED TO A NEW JOB AT A NEW INSTITUTION JUST BEFORE HE WOULD HAVE HAD TO FACE PEER REVIEW AND VETTING OF HIS CREDENTIALS. FROM MURRAY STATE TO CSULB TO LSU, ALEXANDER HAS NEVER BEEN VETTED AS HE IS NOW BEING VETTED IN THUG. AND, AS YOU CAN SEE, HE AIN'T DOING SO WELL.

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"RECENT STUDENT RECOGNITIONS", PAGE 4

9.  ALEXANDER DID INDEED RECEIVE TWO PRESIDENT OF THE YEAR AWARDS FROM THE CALIFORNIA STATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION (CSSA). (NOTE THAT HE MISSTATES THE CORRECT NAME OF THE ASSOCIATION -- ANOTHER OF THOSE SEEMINGLY INSIGNIFICANT IMPOSTER "ERRORS" THAT AREN'T REALLY ERRORS, THAT FUNCTION INTENTIONALLY TO GIVE HIM "CLERICAL DENIABILITY" SHOULD HE BE NAILED ON OTHER FALSE CLAIMS IN THE DOCUMENT.) 

THE MORE STRAIGHT-UP MISLEAD IS HIS REFERENCE TO THE FACT THAT THERE ARE 450,000 STUDENTS AT 23 CSU CAMPUSES. (ALL CSU STUDENTS ARE AUTOMATICALLY MEMBERS OF THE CSSA.) AN OBJECTIVE READ MAKES IT SEEM AS IF ALL THOSE STUDENTS VOTED IN AN ELECTION TO SELECT ALEXANDER. BUT NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH. 

FIRST OF ALL, THERE ARE 437,00 STUDENTS, NOT 450,000. ANOTHER NUMBER FUDGED BY A SUPPOSED "NUMBERS EXPERT" IN ORDER TO COVER UP LARGER FALSEHOODS IN THE DOCUMENT. 

BUT THE BIG LIE IN THIS LINE ITEM IS THAT, OF THE 437,00 STUDENTS, ONLY 23 VOTE FOR AWARDS. ONE STUDENT FROM EACH CAMPUS. AND THESE STUDENTS ARE NOT ELECTED BY THE GENERAL POPULATION OF STUDENTS EITHER. EACH COMES FROM THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS ORGANIZATION ON EACH CAMPUS, SELECTED BY A HANDFUL OF STUDENTS, WITH ADVICE FROM FACULTY AND THE CAMPUS PRESIDENT. IN ALEXANDER'S CASE, HE IS NOTORIOUS FOR FAVORING AND HELPING OUT THE MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS WHO BROWN NOSE HIM. 

SO, ALEXANDER'S AWARDS CAME FROM A VOTE OF 23 STUDENTS WHO WERE FAVORING THEIR OWN CAMPUS PRESIDENTS, MEANING HE WON HIS AWARDS WITH A MINIMAL NUMBER OF VOTES FROM THOSE 23. THIS HELPS TO EXPLAIN HOW THE PRESIDENT OF ONE OF THE TINIEST AND NEWEST CAMPUSES -- CSU CHANNEL ISLANDS -- RECEIVED THE SAME AWARD JUST BEFORE ALEXANDER DID. THE REMAINING 436,977 STUDENTS LIKELY DON'T EVEN KNOW THAT ALEXANDER EVER WON THE AWARDS, OR THAT THE AWARDS EVEN EXIST, OR WHO ALEXANDER IS. SOMEONE SHOULD LET LSU KNOW ABOUT THAT. "ABSENT ALEXANDER" -- AS HE IS KNOWN -- IS HARDLY A STUDENT FAVORITE, EVEN AT HIS OWN CAMPUS. WHAT HE IS, IS A NO SHOW.

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"FEDERAL AND STATE POLICY ADVISEMENTS", 

PAGE 4 ET SEQ

10. BEYOND THE FACT THAT THE PRETENTIOUS USE OF THE BRITISH TERM "ADVISEMENTS" ON AMERICAN SOIL REALLY ANNOYS THUG'S EDITOR, THE FACT IS THAT THE LISTED CREDITS OF APPEARANCES AND TESTIMONY ARE TO BE EXPECTED OF THE PRESIDENT OF A LARGE STATE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS, PARTICULARLY A PRESIDENT WHO IS IN THE BUSINESS OF SELF-PROMOTION AND HUNTING FOR A BIGGER BETTER JOB IN GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC EDUCATION POLICY. HAVING SAID THAT, THUG HAS NOT VETTED THESE LINE ITEMS YET TO SEE IF THEY ARE TRUE AND ACCURATELY STATED. THUG ENCOURAGES ITS READERS TO HELP US OUT WITH THESE.

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"INVITED NATIONAL PUBLIC POLICY

REPORTS and ARTICLES", PAGE 6

11. THE FIRST LINE ITEM ABOVE, "FINANCIAL TIMES", CO-WRITTEN WITH CSU CHANCELLOR CHARLES REED, IS NOT A "PUBLIC POLICY REPORT OR ARTICLE". IT IS A 750 WORD LETTER TO THE EDITOR IN THE "SOAPBOX" SECTION OF THE FINANCIAL TIMES ON-LINE. IT'S NOTHING MORE THAN SOME PRESS RELEASE TALKING POINTS, WITHOUT CITATIONS, ANNOTATIONS, OR CONTENT CAPABLE OF PEER REVIEW. IN ACADEMIA, IT COUNTS AS EITHER NOTHING OR "SERVICE", NOT AS A "SCHOLARLY PUBLICATION". IT IS A TERM PAPER SHY OF EVEN BEING AN UNDERGRADUATE TERM PAPER. BUT YOU BE THE JUDGE. HERE IT IS:

12. "INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION -- REAL COSTS", IS NOT A "NATIONAL PUBLIC POLICY REPORT OR ARTICLE", IT IS A CALIFORNIACENTRIC, 400 WORD OP-ED OR LETTER TO THE EDITOR, WITHOUT CITATION, ANNOTATION, OR SCHOLARLY CONTENT, AND IT IS CRIBBED FROM ALEXANDER'S OWN PREVIOUSLY WRITTEN MATERIAL. IN ACADEMIA, IT COUNTS AS EITHER NOTHING OR "SERVICE", NOT AS A SCHOLARLY PUBLICATION. IT IS EMBARRASSING THAT ALEXANDER LISTS IT HERE. THE ONLY THING THAT CAN BE SAID FOR IT IS THAT THE WRITING CREDIT IS NOT SHARED WITH HIS FATHER OR GODFATHER. BUT YOU BE THE JUDGE. WOULD YOU HIRE THIS MAN TO RUN YOUR MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR SCHOOL SYSTEM AFTER HE FALSELY TOLD YOU THIS WAS AN INVITED PUBLIC POLICY REPORT OR ARTICLE? HERE'S THE PIECE:

13.  "POLICY MATTERS", CO-WRITTEN WITH THREE OTHER CONSULTANTS, IS NOT A "PUBLIC POLICY REPORT OR ARTICLE". IT IS A 7 1/2 PAGE FLYER HAND-OUT OF ABSTRACTS FROM PREVIOUS TALKING POINTS BY EACH OF THE FOUR JOINT AUTHORS. IN OTHER WORDS, IT IS A RE-MIX PRESS RELEASE, DESIGNATED "A HIGHER EDUCATION POLICY BRIEF" BY A STATE COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION. ALEXANDER WOULD GET ABSOLUTELY ZERO PEER-REVIEW PUBLICATION CREDIT FOR THIS FROM ANY PROMOTION/TENURE REVIEW PROCESS. BUT YOU BE THE JUDGE. WOULD YOU PAY $651,000 A YEAR TO THE GUY WHO WROTE ONE QUARTER (LESS THAN TWO PAGES) OF THIS? HERE IT IS:

Link to the full "Policy Matters" document.

14. THE REMAINING LINE ITEMS IN THIS SECTION OF ALEXANDER'S C.V. ARE THE SAME ANIMALS AS THE PRECEDING, UNTIL THEY DISINTEGRATE INTO PRESS RELEASES THAT APPEARED IN THE HOMETOWN "LONG BEACH PRESS-TELEGRAM" AND "LONG BEACH BUSINESS JOURNAL", EITHER OF WHICH WOULD PRINT ALEXANDER'S GROCERY LIST IF HE SENT IT IN TO THEM, AS QUID PRO QUO FOR CAMPUS AD BUYS OR OTHER DEALS.

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NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL 

MEDIA CITATIONS, ETC, PAGES 7-8

15. THE ABOVE SECTION CONTAINS A MELANGE OF MIXED-UP AND INDEFINITE CITATIONS WHICH BOIL DOWN TO NOTHING MORE THAN ALEXANDER BEING BRIEFLY QUOTED IN NEWS ARTICLES. READERS WHO VET THESE IN MORE DETAIL SHOULD PLEASE LET THUG KNOW WHAT AMUSEMENTS THEY FIND THERE! 

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ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS -- BOOKS, PAGE 9

16. THE "EDUCATION FINANCE" LINE ITEM ABOVE IS AN UNWRITTEN AND UNPUBLISHED BOOK.  IT CLAIMS TO BE "CO-AUTHORED WITH ALEXANDER", BUT THIS BIZARRE AND INCORRECT FORM OF CITATION (WE WARNED YOU HOW IMPOSTERS DO THIS) LEAVES IT UNCLEAR WHETHER KING IS THE REFERENCED "ALEXANDER" OR WHETHER HIS FATHER KERN IS THE CO-AUTHOR. THE SIMPLE FACT IS THAT KING ALEXANDER HAS NEVER WRITTEN OR CO-AUTHORED ANY BOOK AT ANY TIME. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO KNOW WHAT THIS SPECULATIVE PROJECT IS, AND IT IS ACADEMICALLY INAPPROPRIATE FOR IT TO BE LISTED HERE. EVERYONE IN AMERICA HAS AN UNWRITTEN BOOK. NOW KING ALEXANDER DOES TOO. WHAT A JOKE. BUT WHO'S LAUGHING? THE EDITOR OF THUG HEREBY REQUESTS THAT THE LSU BOARD OF SUPERVISORS PAY HIM AND EACH OF HIS READERS $651,000 A YEAR FOR EVERYTHING THEY'VE NEVER WRITTEN. CHECKS ARE ACCEPTABLE WITH PHOTO I.D..

17. "MAXIMIZING REVENUE" CONTAINS ABSOLUTELY NO WRITING FROM F. KING ALEXANDER, EVEN THOUGH IT IS THE NEXT IN A LIST OF BOOKS THAT BEGINS WITH A SPECULATIVE BOOK HE CLAIMS HE IS CO-AUTHORING. 

IN THAT ODD IMPOSTER MISCUE TYPO SORT OF WAY, ACADEMIA EXPERT ALEXANDER NEGLECTS TO CORRECTLY CITE THAT HE WAS CO-EDITOR OF THIS "MAXIMIZING REVENUE" BOOK. HE STATES "EDITED WITH R. G. EHRENBERG", RATHER THAN CORRECTLY STATE "EDITED BY F. KING ALEXANDER AND RONALD G. EHRENBERG". WHY DOES HE MAKE THESE INTENTIONAL ERRORS IN CITATION? SO THAT YOU WILL READ THE LINE ITEM AND THINK HE WROTE THIS BOOK? YOU BE THE JUDGE.

FIRST, LET'S EXAMINE WHAT THIS BOOK IS. ALEXANDER AND HIS COLLEAGUE EHRENBERG COLLECTED THE PAPERS PRESENTED BY OTHERS AT A FORUM ON INSTITUTIONAL REVENUE PRODUCTION. THE TWO MEN THEN ARRANGED FOR ALL THE PAPERS TO BE BOUND INTO A SHORT BOOK, LIKE A SYLLABUS OF THE FORUM. NOT CLEAR IS WHETHER THEY DID ANY EDITING ON THE PAPERS, AND INFORMATION IS SCARCE SINCE THIS DATES BACK TO 2002 ACCORDING TO ALEXANDER AND 2003 ACCORDING TO OUTSIDE PUBLICATION RECORDS. (HMM, ANOTHER DATE MIX-UP. WARNED YOU. COULD BE RELEVANT LATER.) 

WHAT IS STRANGE AND INTERESTING IS THAT ALEXANDER LISTS THIS ITEM IN THE BOOKS SECTION OF HIS C.V. FOR LSU AS IF HE WERE AN AUTHOR, WHILE THE CSULB WEBSITE MAKES IT CLEAR THAT HE WAS NOTHING BUT A CO-EDITOR. THEN AGAIN, AS WE KNOW, ALEXANDER TOLD LSU THAT THE CSULB OPERATING BUDGET WAS $170 MILLION MORE THAN IT WAS, AND ALL LSU HAD TO DO WAS CHECK THE CSULB WEBSITE TO KNOW THE TRUTH. BUT, LET'S FACE IT, THERE IS NO TRUTH WHEN FOLKS DON'T WANT TO KNOW IT. DON'T FORGET THAT FALLING TREE IN THE FOREST, RIGHT? AS FAR AS LSU IS CONCERNED -- AND THEY ARE PROVING IT BY SELLING ALEXANDER'S C.V. AND DRAFTING PRESS RELEASES BASED ON IT -- THEIR TRUTH IS THE NEW TRUTH THAT EXISTS IN THE C.V.. AND THIS WILL BECOME ALEXANDER'S TRUTH NOW THAT LSU BELIEVES IT WITHOUT ASKING, FROM WHICH ALEXANDER CAN BUILD NEW AND GRANDER TRUTHS. ALL OF THEM LIES, OF COURSE.

MEANWHILE, BACK TO THE "MAXIMIZING REVENUE" BOOK, WHERE WHAT IS STRANGEST IS THAT LSU WOULD GIVE ALEXANDER HIRING POINTS FOR THIS ITEM AS AN "ACADEMIC PUBLICATION" OR ANYTHING AT ALL, AND WHY IT WOULD NOT RAISE RED FLAGS AND YELLOW FLARES AND SMOKE SIGNALS OF TROUBLE INSTEAD. BUT YOU BE THE JUDGE. HERE ARE THE CITES:

18.  "THE UNIVERSITY: INTERNATIONAL EXPECTATIONS" LINE ITEM SAYS THIS IT IS "EDITED", PRESUMABLY BY ALEXANDER AND ALEXANDER ALONE. SOMEHOW THE KING JUST PLAIN FORGOT TO LIST HIS DEAR DADDY KERN AS HIS CO-EDITOR ON THIS ITEM IN HIS LSU C.V.. ONCE AGAIN, IT'S ODDLY AND CONFLICTINGLY LISTED AS "CO-EDITED WITH ALEXANDER" ON THE CSULB WEBSITE, SO YOU HAVE TO HUNT DOWN THE ACTUAL BOOK TO GET AT THE TRUTH. AND THEN YOU FIND THAT THIS DECADE OLD BOOK IS INDEED EDITED WITH HIS FATHER, AND IT IS ONLY 153 PAGES, WITH NECESSARILY SHORT, NON-SCHOLARLY TALKING POINTS PIECES BY 10 AUTHORS, INCLUDING BOTH ALEXANDERS INDIVIDUALLY. 

OH, AND DID WE FORGET TO MENTION? IT IS SELF-PUBLISHED, WHICH MEANS IT IS ABSOLUTELY VERBOTEN FOR LISTING AND CREDIT IN ACADEMIA. THIS BOOK IS PUBLISHED BY THE ALEXANDERS AS PART OF THEIR "OXFORD ROUND TABLE" SEMINAR SCAM (WAIT FOR INSTALLMENT 6, COMING NEXT, FOR ALL THE DIRT ON THAT TOMFOOLERY). JUST KNOW THAT FIELDON KING ALEXANDER WAS AN OFFICER/DIRECTOR AND MAJOR SHAREHOLDER OF THE OXFORD ROUND TABLE AT THE TIME THIS BOOK WAS SELF-PUBLISHED. HE AND HIS FAMILY SEEMINGLY MADE MONEY FROM THIS, THROUGH SUBMISSIONS BY AND SALES TO THE OTHER AUTHORS. ALEXANDER KNOWS BETTER THAN TO LIST THIS ON HIS C.V., BUT THERE IT IS ANYWAY. WHAT FASCINATES IS THAT HE DOES NOT LIST THIS BOOK ON THE CSULB WEBSITE, BUT HE DOES TOUT IT TO LSU. YOU READERS NEED TO EXPLAIN THAT TO YOUR THUG EDITOR, PLEASE. ALL THEORIES WILL BE SERIOUSLY CONSIDERED, EVEN IF MARTIANS OR BRAIN PARASITES ARE INVOLVED.

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ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS --
BOOK CHAPTERS, PAGE 9-10

19. THE THUG EDITOR ENCOURAGES OUR READERS TO CHECK OUT THE ITEMS LISTED IN THE ABOVE SECTION OF ALEXANDER'S C.V., AND LET US KNOW WHAT YOU FIND. WHAT WE SEE ARE THE USUAL MINOR LEAGUE ABTRACTS AND FLYERS, MOSTLY CO-AUTHORED, TOO MANY YEARS OLD TO MATTER, AND A REPEAT OF ALEXANDER'S SELF-PUBLISHED SHORT PIECE IN THE OXFORD ROUND TABLE "INTERNATIONAL EXPECTATIONS" ITEM. 

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ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS -- 
VARIOUS HEADINGS, PAGE 10-11

20. THERE ISN'T MUCH TO BE SAID ABOUT THESE REDUNDANT LINE ITEMS OF CO-AUTHORED, INSIGNIFICANT, AND ANCIENT MATERIAL.  THUG'S READERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO VET THESE AND TELL US IF THEY FIND ANY TREASURES OF MISSTATEMENT OR ABSURDITY. IT IS PAINFULLY CLEAR IN THESE GROUPINGS THAT, AS SOON AS ALEXANDER ESCAPED HIS PROFESSORSHIP AT ILLINOIS AND BECAME A UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT, HE CEASED EVEN PRETENDING TO SEEK ACADEMIC AND SCHOLARLY PUBLICATION THAT HE OTHERWISE WOULD HAVE NEEDED FOR TENURE AND PROMOTION. AS A PRESIDENT, HE HAS A SMALL COLLECTION OF MINI-WRITINGS AND POWER POINT PRESENTATIONS WHICH HE RE-PURPOSES AND RE-TITLES AS NECESSARY. FROM 2002 UNTIL HE BEGAN TO SEEK THE CSU CHANCELLORSHIP AND THEN THE LSU GIG A DECADE LATER, ALEXANDER ABANDONED THE ACADEMIC RESEARCH, WRITING, AND PUBLICATION HE'D BARELY BEGUN AS AN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR AT ILLINOIS.

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INVITED PRESENTATIONS, 

LECTURES and PAPERS, PAGE 12-16

21. THUG VERY MUCH HOPES THIS LONG LIST OF PRESENTATIONS IS TRUE, EVEN THOUGH IT APPEARS TO LIST NO ACTUAL PAPERS, MERELY THAT SET LIST OF SHORT SPEECHES AND POWER POINTS THAT ARE UPDATED AND RE-TITLED BY ALEXANDER ON THE FLY. IF THIS LIST IS TRUE, IT IS GLORIOUS PROOF OF ALEXANDER'S WILLFUL FAILURE TO DISCLOSE OUT-OF-STATE TRAVEL ON HIS CALIFORNIA STATE FORM 700 ANNUAL REPORTS, THE CONSEQUENCE OF WHICH COULD AND SHOULD BE CRIMINAL INDICTMENT. (THIS WILL BE COVERED IN DETAIL IN UPCOMING THUG INSTALLMENT 7.) HERE'S HOPING! 

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UNIVERSITY INSTRUCTION, PAGE 16

22. THE USE OF "YEARS" RATHER THAN SEMESTERS IS MISLEADING. AT CSULB, ALEXANDER TAUGHT A SHORT SUMMER SEMINAR, ALTHOUGH THUG HAS ONLY BEEN ABLE TO CONFIRM ONE IN 2009. CONSIDERING ALEXANDER'S TRAVEL SCHEDULE (SEE PREVIOUS C.V. PAGES), IT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN REMOTELY POSSIBLE FOR HIM TO TEACH A REGULAR SEMESTER COURSE AT ANY TIME. HIS CITATION HERE SHOULD BE MORE DETAILED FOR THE SAKE OF CLARITY, RATHER THAN IMPLIED EXAGGERATION. THE REALITY IS THAT ALEXANDER IS NOT A TEACHER, HAS SPENT MOST OF HIS CAREER NOT TEACHING, AND NEVER ROSE ABOVE THE LOWEST RANK AS ASSISTANT PROFESSOR. AND, NOTED EARLIER HEREIN, ALEXANDER'S GUEST APPEARANCE IN PROFESSOR LANE'S CLASS WAS A HORROR-SHOW BACK IN 2006.

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OTHER LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE, PAGE 18

23. WHEN IT COMES TO IMPOSTERS, SOMETIMES THE MOST IMPORTANT CREDITS ARE THE ONES THESE FOLKS CHOOSE NOT TO STATE IN A GIVEN C.V.. WHAT FASCINATES HERE ARE THE BOARD MEMBERSHIPS THAT ALEXANDER HAS ADROITLY DELETED FROM HIS LIST. 

FOR THE OLD DAYS BEFORE CSULB, ALEXANDER DECLINES TO LIST HIS MULTIPLE BOARD MEMBERSHIPS ON THE VARIOUS CORPORATIONS THAT RAN THE OXFORD ROUND TABLE AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL FINANCE CONCERNS. (AGAIN, THESE WILL BE COVERED IN THUG INSTALLMENT 6, COMING NEXT!)

IN THE PRESENT DAY, ALEXANDER DECLINES TO LIST AT LEAST THREE BOARD MEMBERSHIPS ACCORDED HIM AS BUSINESS FAVORS IN LIGHT OF HIS PRESIDENCY AT CSULB.  THOSE BOARD MEMBERSHIPS -- AT INTERNATIONAL CITY BANK, APPLIED MEDICAL CORPORATION, AND THE LONG BEACH MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION -- HAVE PROVIDED ALEXANDER WITH INCOME AND VALUABLE STOCK (THAT HE CASHES IN FROM TIME TO TIME), TO THE TUNE OF TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN GIVEN YEARS. WE MAY NEVER KNOW THE FULL EXTENT OF THE VALUE OF HIS HOLDINGS, BECAUSE ALEXANDER ONLY REVEALS WHAT HE CASHES IN OR TAKES AS IRS INCOME, NOT WHAT HE'S BEEN AWARDED AND HOLDS. BUT THE CALIFORNIA STATE AUDITOR MAY SOON HAVE A SAY IN GETTING TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS, AND ALEXANDER'S FLIGHT TO LSU MAY LEAD TO HIM LIQUIDATING WHAT HE'S BEEN SITTING ON. IN ALL EVENTS, THE LSU COMMUNITY SHOULD RECOGNIZE THAT UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTS GET VAST ECONOMIC ADVANTAGES OVER AND ABOVE THEIR KNOWN SALARIES AND PERKS. HERE'S A LITTLE TASTE OF WHAT ALEXANDER HAS REPORTED, BUT ALSO NOTE WHAT HE FAILED TO REPORT, PARTICULARLY HIS OUT-OF-STATE TRIPS (AS NOTED IN #21 ABOVE):

AND SO HERE WE ARE. TIME FOR YOU TO BE THE JUDGE! YOU'VE SEEN THE EVIDENCE, YOU'VE READ THE ANALYSIS, YOU CAN ADD IN YOUR OWN RESEARCH. 

NOW VOTE: GUILTY OR NOT GUILTY? RESULTS TO BE REPORTED TO ALEXANDER AND TO LSU AND CSULB, AND ALL OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES. THUG HAS MORE THAN 25,000 READERS, AND THAT WILL EXPLODE OVER 30,000 IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS. ALL OF YOU SHOULD VOTE! YOUR OPINION MATTERS AND YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE CONDUCT OF EDUCATION AND THE FUTURE OF OUR CHILDREN! YOU CAN ALSO STAND UP FOR THE TRUTH, AGAINST THOSE WHO WOULD VERY MUCH RATHER MISLEAD AND DISTRACT YOU. PLEASE VOTE! AND COMMENT! AND ASK QUESTIONS!

YOU BE THE JUDGE!

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