In a Feb. 11 column in The Daily, Medill senior David Spett raised concerns about the Medill dean's use of anonymous quotes in a letter in the Medill alumni magazine. John Lavine said the student quotes praising a marketing class were from "real people," but couldn't remember how he'd gotten them. Spett says he contacted all 29 students in the class and still could not find the source of the quote. Lavine has denied fabricating material, saying the quotes came from deleted e-mails or missing notes. An IMC graduate student told the Chicago Tribune she doesn't "think the issue is that large." But nothing is more telling than a jury of your peers, 100 of them in Norris, to be exact.
John Lavine swears his quotes are real, but do you even care?
Results:
Yes - 37
No idea- 54
No - 9
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