Comments on: I’ve graphed my bad behavior for you

By: MARSHALL S. DICKER DMD, FAGD

MARSHALL S. DICKER DMD, FAGD — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 18:30:01 +0000

I WAS VERY INTERESTED IN YOUR COMMENT. I GRADUATED PENN DENTAL IN 1975 AND THE SITUATION WHILE I WAS THERE WAS TOTALLY DIFFERENT. WHEN I WAS A SOPHOMORE, D. WALTER COHEN TOOK OVER AS DEAN AND AS YOU CAN IMAGINE WITH A CO-HAYN AT THE HEAD….NO ONE DARED TO BE ANTI SEMETIC. THERE WAS ONE MUCH OLDER REMOVABLE INSTRUCTOR WHO WAS THE CONTACT FOR THE NON-JEWISH FRATERNITY, WHO I OVERHEAD SAYING SOMETHING ABOUT ” ALL THE TEL AVIV WHIZ KIDS ” WHO WERE THERE ONCE D. WALTER TOOK OVER.
I ATTENDED WITH 6 GUYS WHO I WENT TO COLLEGE WITH, ALL JEWISH AND WE NEVER EXPERIENCED ANY ANTI SEMITISM.
I CAN IMAGINE HOW UNPLEASANT IT MUST HAVE BEEN FOR YOU THOUGH AND I FEEL FOR YOU.
I KNOW WHAT I HAVE TOLD YOU MAY NOT DECREASE YOUR EMNITY BUT AT LEAST KNOW THAT IT WAS GONE ONCE DR COHEN TOOK OVER.
MARSHALL S DICKER DMD FAGD

By: sumac

sumac — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 14:18:11 +0000

In reply to Michelle.

Actually, that apology is not from the former Dean’s family. The format might be misleading. The late Dean Buhler’s son said, “If this situation did exist, it was certainly out of character of the man I knew. If indeed these events did occur, I feel badly for the individuals involved. Last night’s event might have made them feel better but didn’t compensate for their injury.”

Immediately after that in the story are the words “I am sorry. We are sorry,” but that’s not a quote from him! It’s a quote from the current president of the school, as in the post above. It’s a “subhed,” an internal headline for the next part of the story, not a continuation of quotes from John Buhler, Jr.

As for Buhler, Jr., at the time quoted, he couldn’t even believe it happened. “If this situation did exist…” “If indeed these events did occur….” Not an apology.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 13:04:11 +0000

This has sn apology from the Dean’s family:
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/13/shining-light-on-emorys-reign-of-terror-prompts-healing-and-for-one-man-questions/

By: sumac

sumac — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 18:32:02 +0000

In reply to Lewis Lorton. That's terrible. I'd feel deep enmity too. Wonder if anyone's done a graph for Penn?

By: Lewis Lorton

Lewis Lorton — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 17:48:47 +0000

I was a student at Penn Dental School in the 60’s and, although there was a sizable percentage of Jewish students, there was openly anti-Semitic feelings and attitudes among some of the faculty.
Jewish students knew not to try to get procedures checked off by certain instructors. I remember one of the faculty berated a student asking ‘would you understand more if the text was given in Yiddish?’ The student was later flunked out of school. Nothing was done about the faculty member and he died still an instructor.
I graduated, but with a total enmity for the school that persists to this day just because those kinds of behaviors were allowed to persist.

By: Katherine Catmull

Katherine Catmull — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 00:16:22 +0000

I love this story. Well not the first, horrible part, but Emory’s recent response. It makes think well of humanity and academia, both of which sometimes sink low on my list of things to think well of.