John J. Schulz is claiming that he merely made "typos" when he fabricated figures on his resume (the one that got him his current job as dean of Boston University's College of Communication), implying he was in a more elite group of students in the Oxford doctoral program than was really the case. Previously, the good dean has been in other academically comprimising situations, reports the Globe:

In 1999, he stepped down as chairman of the department of mass communication, advertising, and public relations after acknowledging he read a passage from a magazine in class without attribution.
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A 2003 article in The Daily Free Press stated that Schulz was the author of ''several books." He has not published any books. Patrick Gillooly, the student who wrote the article, said he got his information from Schulz, but could not say with certainty that Schulz had made that particular claim.

He is also accused of lying about his participation in the wars in Vietnam and in Afghanistan.

We think Mr. Schulz says it best himself when he was quoted for a December 2005 article in the Washington Post:

"In the very process of preventing misinformation from another side, they are creating misinformation through a process that disguises the source for information that is going out," said John Schulz, dean of Boston University's College of Communications and a veteran journalist. "You can't be creating a model for democracy while subverting one of its core principles, a free independent press."

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