INTELLIGENCER NEW ERA
An article headed “Fry may leave Franklin & Marshall College for Drexel” reports, “F&M’s 49-year-old president is one of two finalists for the top job at the downtown Philadelphia university of about 22,000 students. The identity of the other finalist is not known.”
WATCHDOG: John Fry has a way of doing the best possible things in the worst possible ways. (Witness his rolling over the reasonable requests of neighbors concerning the relocation of the Norfolk & Southern railyard and the ‘mugging’ of reporter Ron Harper across the street from Fry’s home by F&M security personnel while Fry looked on. Harper was released without charges and may yet bring suit for false arrest and assault and battery.)
We wish him good luck in his candidacy.
Your Watchdog commentary on Fry ended with the statement: “We wish him good luck in his candidacy.” Do I notice a big of wishful thinking here?
I happen to think that Fry will not get the Drexel job…. Drexel, with its law school and medical school, will elect the other candidate, who undoubtedly has a doctorate.
A master’s degree in business administration is not prestigious enough for Drexel. Here in Lancaster, Fry is a big duck in a little pond. That’s a far cry from being a little duck in a big pond
Who said that Fry looked on? Harper was subdued after resisting questioning and arrest for trespassing on the property of the college president and making threatening remarks to a college employee. The neighbors just didn’t want the railyard in their backyard. Their proposed alternative sites were unworkable, as the college repeatedly explained to unwilling ears.
Editor’s comment: Harper did not trespass. Harper was knocked to the ground without provocation and was detained and placed in a holding cell. He was never charged. Christian Hart-Nibbrig was also detained, apparently for no other reason than being with Harper across the road from the Fry residence.
F & M and LGH stonewalled the neighbors reasonable request for an independent study of alternative location.