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Villanova law school dean linked to prostitution raid
Morning Call ^ | 7/6/2009 | Staff

Posted on 07/06/2009 12:10:37 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA

VILLANOVA, Pa. (AP) - Authorities say the dean of Villanova University's law school was involved in a prostitution investigation before resigning last week.

State police say Mark Sargent was seen leaving a suspected house of prostitution in suburban Philadelphia just before a raid Nov. 25. He was not charged.

Instead, police say Sargent was one of two customers who provided information to authorities prosecuting the case.

The owner of the Kennett Township home recently pleaded no contest to promoting prostitution; two co-defendants pleaded guilty to the charge.

(Excerpt) Read more at mcall.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: academia; highereducation; lawschool; marksargent; philadelphia; prostitution; vice; villanova; villanovau
WTH are these people thinking?
1 posted on 07/06/2009 12:10:37 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
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To: Red in Blue PA

They’re liberals, they DON’T THINK, they FEEL.....................


2 posted on 07/06/2009 12:13:02 PM PDT by Red Badger (Inquiring minds want to know, but American Idol minds could care less...)
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To: Red in Blue PA
Law School Dean at a whorehouse--whaddasupprise. He was probably just going to work and got confused.
3 posted on 07/06/2009 12:13:22 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Red in Blue PA

At least he was doing it with consenting adults! Not like this creep - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286638/posts


4 posted on 07/06/2009 12:13:58 PM PDT by BossLady ("WE are the origin of all coming evil" ~~ Carl Jung~~)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Buying or selling? ;-P


5 posted on 07/06/2009 12:14:38 PM PDT by MortMan (Power without responsibility-the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages. - Rudyard Kipling)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

I realize this is about their law school, but Villanova is also an Augustinian-founded Catholic university. Guess they’re trying to keep up with the Jesuits (Notre Dame; Georgetown).


6 posted on 07/06/2009 12:15:59 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (If ten percent is good enough for Jesus, it ought to be good enough for Uncle Sam. --Ray Stevens)
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To: hinckley buzzard

LOL!!!;)


7 posted on 07/06/2009 12:20:08 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: Red in Blue PA

My alma mater.

Good grief.


8 posted on 07/06/2009 12:20:08 PM PDT by SueRae
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To: SueRae

Law firm, whorehouse, what’s the difference?


9 posted on 07/06/2009 12:22:33 PM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

he was doing research for a book, no doubt.


10 posted on 07/06/2009 12:23:15 PM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: Albion Wilde

Notre Dame is NOT a Jesuit college.


12 posted on 07/06/2009 12:37:10 PM PDT by paterfamilias
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To: Red in Blue PA

Just setting up extra credit classes


13 posted on 07/06/2009 12:43:01 PM PDT by Cyman
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To: Red in Blue PA; All; holdonnow

FYI, some background:

Dean
Professor of Law

Born in New London, Connecticut in 1951, Mark A. Sargent was educated at Wesleyan University, where he graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in the College of Letters in 1973. Awarded a Danforth Fellowship for graduate study in 1973, he earned an M.A. in Medieval Studies in 1975 from Cornell University, where he concentrated in political theory and Italian literature. He entered Cornell Law School in 1975, graduating in 1978, and went on to practice corporate and securities law with the Boston law firm of Csaplar & Bok.

He began his law teaching career in 1980, and is currently Dean and Professor of Law at Villanova University School of Law. Before coming to Villanova in 1997, he was Piper & Marbury Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Director of the Law & Entrepreneurship Program at the University of Maryland School of Law. He has also taught at the law schools of American University, Southern Methodist University and the University of Baltimore.

Dean Sargent’s legal specialties are securities regulation and corporate law, and he has published extensively in those fields. Among his distinctions in his areas of expertise are his appointments as a member of the American Law Institute, as Reporter for the Revision of the Uniform Securities Act for the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, as Editor of The Business Lawyer, and as a former member of the National Adjudicatory Council of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., the national self-regulatory organization for the brokerage industry. He also has served as an arbitrator in securities and corporate law disputes, an administrative hearing judge in state securities enforcement actions and an expert witness for the Securities and Exchange Commission, state securities regulators and private litigants. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the Villanova Journal of Law and Investment Management, a peer-reviewed journal he founded in 1997.

Dean Sargent has served on the boards of community organizations as well as business entities, and has assumed leadership roles in bar activities at both the national and the state levels. While at the University of Maryland, he chaired a successful search committee for the presidency of a major research university and served in leadership capacities at both the campus and inter-campus levels.

In addition to teaching courses in securities regulation, business associations, mergers & acquisitions, corporate and white collar crime and related topics, he has taught law school courses in American legal history, which he studied as a participant in a National Endowment for the Humanities program at Stanford Law School. He also has been long active in creating clinical law and pro bono service programs in various aspects of poverty and human rights law at both Villanova and the University of Maryland. His current research and teaching interests are principally in the area of Catholic Social Thought and the law.

Dean Sargent is married to Joan Taranto Sargent, also an attorney, and has one son, Alexander (born 1987).
Born in New London, Connecticut in 1951, Mark A. Sargent was educated at Wesleyan University, where he graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in the College of Letters in 1973. Awarded a Danforth Fellowship for graduate study in 1973, he earned an M.A. in Medieval Studies in 1975 from Cornell University, where he concentrated in political theory and Italian literature. He entered Cornell Law School in 1975, graduating in 1978, and went on to practice corporate and securities law with the Boston law firm of Csaplar & Bok.

He began his law teaching career in 1980, and is currently Dean and Professor of Law at Villanova University School of Law. Before coming to Villanova in 1997, he was Piper & Marbury Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Director of the Law & Entrepreneurship Program at the University of Maryland School of Law. He has also taught at the law schools of American University, Southern Methodist University and the University of Baltimore.

Dean Sargent’s legal specialties are securities regulation and corporate law, and he has published extensively in those fields. Among his distinctions in his areas of expertise are his appointments as a member of the American Law Institute, as Reporter for the Revision of the Uniform Securities Act for the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, as Editor of The Business Lawyer, and as a former member of the National Adjudicatory Council of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., the national self-regulatory organization for the brokerage industry. He also has served as an arbitrator in securities and corporate law disputes, an administrative hearing judge in state securities enforcement actions and an expert witness for the Securities and Exchange Commission, state securities regulators and private litigants. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the Villanova Journal of Law and Investment Management, a peer-reviewed journal he founded in 1997.

Dean Sargent has served on the boards of community organizations as well as business entities, and has assumed leadership roles in bar activities at both the national and the state levels. While at the University of Maryland, he chaired a successful search committee for the presidency of a major research university and served in leadership capacities at both the campus and inter-campus levels.

In addition to teaching courses in securities regulation, business associations, mergers & acquisitions, corporate and white collar crime and related topics, he has taught law school courses in American legal history, which he studied as a participant in a National Endowment for the Humanities program at Stanford Law School. He also has been long active in creating clinical law and pro bono service programs in various aspects of poverty and human rights law at both Villanova and the University of Maryland. His current research and teaching interests are principally in the area of Catholic Social Thought and the law.

Dean Sargent is married to Joan Taranto Sargent, also an attorney, and has one son, Alexander (born 1987).

OT, found this while googling.

Gee, I didn’t even know there was a law school admissions for patronage jobs scam going on:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-kass-26-jun26,0,3798890.column

Very interesting. I wonder if Harvard and the rest do the same (i’m sure they do).


14 posted on 07/06/2009 12:51:09 PM PDT by AliVeritas ( Pray, Pray, Pray)
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To: Red in Blue PA

My alma mater makes me proud.


15 posted on 07/06/2009 12:54:40 PM PDT by Hoodlum91 (There's a strange odor coming from the White House. Smells like BO.)
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To: paterfamilias

Yep.

Notre Dame is Congregation of Holy Cross.


16 posted on 07/06/2009 12:57:16 PM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: paterfamilias

He didn’t say it was Jesuit. He likened it to the Jesuit schools.


17 posted on 07/06/2009 2:38:59 PM PDT by catbertz
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To: AliVeritas

Medieval political theory...I thought that was simply... I am the King and your not.


18 posted on 07/06/2009 2:43:49 PM PDT by razorback-bert (We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

He’s got a job waiting at Notre Dame.


19 posted on 07/07/2009 4:26:24 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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