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Statement of Facts and Our Responses

Gaya Marasinghe, principal investigator, and John Wagner, a self-acclaimed racist whom admits in Court that he tells racist jokes and makes open racist remarks about his chair, and co-principal investigator (both physics) received a National Science Foundation grant to purchase a variable temperature automated x-ray diffractometer.

Their claim is that "UND's only modern x-ray diffractometer that provides hands-on, affordable access to its researchers, the proposed instrument is expected to facilitate the research activities of at least three academic departments and two colleges at UND."

"because UND has one of the largest Native American student populations in the nation, the instrument will present an opportunity for UND students belonging to an under-represented ethnic group to experience one of the most versatile and widely used experimental techniques in materials science."

RESPONSE:

To quote the UND Physics Department on its information page

http://www.und.edu/dept/physics/dept_info.html

"Presently, the Physics Department consists of 9 regular faculty and 5 adjunct, emeritus, or non-regular faculty members. The enrollment for Winter 2001 semeser is 15 undergraduate students and around 9 full-time masters and doctoral students"

UND Physics goes on to brag about "small and intimate classes". Clearly, with 14 faculty members teaching a total of 24 students, UND Physics is not able to support itself academically;
. Only a small percentage of these students are materials science students;
The proposed equipment which is geared toward graduate students, if you check on it will only include 2-4 graduate students;

Finally, and most disgusting,

The only Indian in physics is Christopher Milford⁽, who has been in the undergrad program for over 8 years unless you include Marasinghe, the grant writer, who is from India. Milford actually works for the Dakota Science Center in downtown Grand Forks though they pencil him in as the token Indian of the UND Physics dept to get extra REU and NSF funding. Milford has recently been caught sending death threats (and worse) to women on UND Principal Investigator Wagner's laboratory computer. This makes one question Wagner's ability to supervise his students in the laboratory does it not?

Further, UND has been reprimanded by the Office of Civil Rights in Kansas^.for discriminating against Indians. Whether they are abusing poor Milford by keeping him down toward their own benefit, or whether Milford is simply reaping kickbacks from a staff whom he barely sees is for you to judge.