{"id":6762,"date":"2009-07-08T13:19:52","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T21:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=6762"},"modified":"2009-07-08T13:19:52","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T21:19:52","slug":"new-allegations-in-admissions-controversy-at-u-of-illinois-suggest-ex-provost-played-a-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/07\/new-allegations-in-admissions-controversy-at-u-of-illinois-suggest-ex-provost-played-a-role\/","title":{"rendered":"New Allegations in Admissions Controversy at U. of Illinois Suggest Ex-Provost Played a Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Tribune: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/chi-u-of-i-clout-04-jul03,0,6618041.story\">Giannoulias aide put kid on clout list for priest<\/a><br \/>\nGreek Orthodox leader who vouched for girl helped treasurer raise campaign cash<\/p>\n<p>When a politically connected Greek Orthodox priest wanted help getting the daughter of a family friend into the University of Illinois, he reached out to a campaign adviser to state Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Tribune: Giannoulias aide put kid on clout list for priest Greek Orthodox leader who vouched for girl helped treasurer raise campaign cash When a politically connected Greek Orthodox priest wanted help getting the daughter of a family friend into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/07\/new-allegations-in-admissions-controversy-at-u-of-illinois-suggest-ex-provost-played-a-role\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[287],"tags":[2656,2204,4295],"class_list":["post-6762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administration","tag-admissions","tag-scandal","tag-u-of-illinois"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6763,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6762\/revisions\/6763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}