From cultxpt@primenet.com Tue May 21 16:15:36 EDT 1996 Article: 181266 of alt.religion.scientology From: Jeff Jacobsen Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: LRH's actual college history (repost) Date: 21 May 1996 08:41:01 -0700 Organization: Primenet (602)416-7000 Lines: 112 Sender: root@primenet.com Message-ID: <4nso6d$99g@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> X-Posted-By: cultxpt@usr5.primenet.com [updated 5/5/96] I've posted the below information with no reaction from Scientologists. Finally, Cory Brennan posted a list of successful people who nevertheless had no college degrees. This of course missed the whole point of this post, that Hubbard LIED, claiming to have 3 degrees (one a PhD). I then asked Cory through a post and email to post Hubbard's *real* college education as she knows it, but there has been no response. Therefore, we have here unrefuted proof that L. Ron Hubbard blatantly and consistently lied about his educational background. This is my normal post, except I have added a quote from the Scandal of Scientology by Paulette Cooper at the end to provide further information. "L. Ron Hubbard, one of America's first nuclear physicists, ..." [inside jacket of All About Radiation]. When did he get his degree in nuclear physics? When did he study? Where did he get this degree? "...L. Ron Hubbard was trained in mathematics, science and engineering at George Washington University, in government at Princeton and has a Doctor of Philosophy degree." [inside jacket of A History of Man] Same questions; where did he get this degree? When? When did he study for this? "I was a Ph.D., Sequoia's University and therefore a perfectly valid doctor under the laws of the State of California." [HCOPL 14 Feb. 1966 "Doctor Title Abolished"]. In this HCOPL LRH says he does not want to be called "doctor" anymore. Sequoia University was a diploma mill. Was this for the Philosophy or Nuclear Physics degree? When did he study for this? In Professional Auditor's Bulletin #82, "Scientology, Translator's Edition" 1 May, 1956, by "L. Ron Hubbard, Ph.D. C.E." we have the statement that Scientology "was organized by L. Ron Hubbard, an American, who has many degrees" (Tech. Bulletins, vol. 2, p.406). Let's say "many degrees" means 3, and from the heading we can infer that one of these degrees is a Ph.D. So we're talking a minimum of 5 1/2 years for the 3 B.A.'s or B.S.'s, and another 3 anyway for the Ph.D. Now I challenge all you Scientologists out there to tell me which 8 1/2 years Hubbard was in college. Andy, are you up to it? We know he went 2 years to George Washington University but never finished there. Where else did he go? When? What is the evidence? I have some of the Shannon research, and he got Hubbard's transcripts >from George Washington University. Here are the transcripts; 1930-31 1st semester English 1/2, Rhetoric C General Chemistry 3/4 D Mechanical Engineering 3/4 B Analytical Geometry F Physical Education C First year German E Civil Engineering B 2nd semester English 1/2 Rhetoric B General Chemistry 3/4 D Mechanical Engineering C Physical Education A First year German F Differential Calculus F 1931-2 1st semester Physics, dynamics of sound and light E Differential Calculus D Integral Calculus Plane Anal. Geometry D English, short stories B 2nd semester Integral Calculus D English, Short Stories B Physics, electricity and magnetism D Nuclear Physics F The GPA comes to a D. And this is the guy who got at least 2 Ph.D.'s??? Wow. Shannon says Hubbard was asked to leave after the second year due to poor grades. below is from Scandal of Scientology by Paulette Cooper, pages 162,163: "In his Brief Biography, he said he had graduated from Columbian University and in Who's Who in the Southwest (the claim he supplied the data) he said he graduated in Civil Engineering from George Washington University. (He has sometimes used C.E. after his name.)..." "As for the Princeton School of Government that he says he attended, it was the Princeton School of *Military* Government, and he went there only three months in what was possibly a war service course. Hubbard also claims to have a Ph.D. from Sequoia University. Sequoia was originally called the College of Drugless Healing, and might have been called the College of Instant Learning, since it has been traced by the United Stated government to a residential dwelling in Los Angeles which operated through a post office box and delivered mail order doctorates without the formality of exams, or for that matter, of classroom attendance. In fact, Hubbard didn't even have to pay for that degree - it was an honorary degree for his work in Dianetics. A Harvard student discovered that Hubbard was on the staff of the school..." -- "The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet not withstanding go out to meet it." Thucydides Jeff Jacobsen cultxpt@primenet.com PO Box 3541 Scottsdale AZ 85271 USA