Posted on 06/02/2004 11:32:33 AM PDT by jrushing
BATON ROUGE -- A St. Landry Parish School Board member and his wife admitted Tuesday to paying $1,500 to a Southern University official for a bogus master's degree in special education in the first criminal case to emerge from a probe into grade-fixing at the university.
Quincy Richard Sr., 42, who is also an employee of St. Landry Parish government, and Cynthia A. Richard, 40, a teacher in the school district, pleaded guilty in 19th Judicial District Court to charges of filing false public records. Cynthia Richard was stripped of the degree she used to gain a pay raise, authorities said.
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What's the problem?
Used to be you could get a Universal Life Church ministry ordination for free. I think they cost $2 now.
http://www.ulc.org
I swear, they're awarding Masters Degrees in the Obvious to anyone these days.
ULC ordination is still free online, and cheap at half the price.
Any pictures of these dudes. A picture is worth a thousand words.
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