'A Mockery Of Education': Dean of Michigan State’s Top-Ranked Ed School Is a Serial Plagiarist, Complaint Alleges

The dean of Michigan State University’s College of Education, Jerlando Jackson, plagiarized extensively over the course of his career, according to a complaint filed with the university on Thursday, lifting text without attribution and raising questions about his fitness to lead one of the top teacher training programs in the country.

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Dem Fundraising Platform ActBlue Takes a Cut of Donations to Michigan State University’s Anti-Israel Tent Encampment

The Democratic Party’s primary fundraising platform helped facilitate donations to the anti-Israel encampment at Michigan State University. ActBlue is set to receive a 3.95 percent cut of those donations, according to its stated policies. 

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Michigan State Students Paint Over Pro-Gun Message Post-Campus Tragedy

“Come here girl, let’s cover this shit up.”

Michigan State shooter had prior felony gun charge dropped by Democrat DA — would otherwise have been barred from having a firearm



Michigan Democrats are pushing for new gun control laws after three Michigan State University students were gunned down and several others were injured in a shooting Monday evening.

It is unclear whether additional laws will be any more effective than the existing gun laws that a Democratic district attorney failed to faithfully apply in full to the MSU shooter after his previous run-in with the law.

Former Ingham County District Attorney Carol Siemon not only pushed for Anthony McRae to avoid serious consequences and reacquire a weapon, but a general policy for other criminals as well.

More laws not to enforce

The Detroit Free Press reported that Anthony McRae — the man police indicated was responsible for slaying three innocent students and then killing himself — was arrested in 2019 on a gun-related charge in Lansing, Michigan.

Chris Gautz, a spokesman for the Michigan Department of Corrections, told the Free Press about the arrest.

"On June 7, 2019, an officer spotted an individual near an abandoned building on East Street in Lansing around 1:30 a.m. The officer questioned McRae, who said he had just left a store," said Gautz. "When asked, he admitted he had a gun on him and did not have a concealed weapons permit. He claimed he left home to walk to a store [to] buy cigarettes and feared for his safety so he took his gun."

According to court records, a police officer approached McRae, asked him if he was armed, then, upon confirmation that he was, detained him. The officer found a Ruger LCP .380 semi-automatic pistol on McRae's person along with a loaded magazine.

McRae was charged with a violation of concealed carry law and possessing a loaded weapon in a vehicle.

Despite the initial felony charge, the Ingham County District Attorney's Office, formerly helmed by progressive Democrat Carol Siemon, cut McRae a deal and lowered the charges to a misdemeanor.

Ingham County Prosecutor John Dewane, Siemon's successor, told the Free Press, "Mr. McRae would have been barred from legally purchasing, owning, or possessing a firearm if he would have been convicted of the [concealed weapons] charge."

"The misdemeanor conviction did not prevent him from purchasing, owning, or possessing a firearm after he successfully completed his terms of probation," added Dewane.

Dewane noted in a statement Tuesday that the original felony charge was punishable by up to five years.

McRae was ultimately sentenced to 12 months probation on Nov. 26, 2019, and then discharged from probation on May 14, 2021. He never served prison time for the offense.

Siemon, the Democrat who ran the DA's office around the time McRae received his sweetheart deal, retired from her post on Dec. 31, after 17 years with the county.

According to the Lansing State Journal, Siemon long drew criticism for her charging and plea-bargain policies.

For instance, in 2020, Siemon was accused by a judge of trying "to be creative to get around the judge and the Legislature, and quite frankly, the law," in "two cases that clearly are textbook first-degree, premeditated murder."

Since Siemon opposes sentences of life without parole, she tried to let a murderer who smashed two women to death with a hammer in 2019 and planned to kill another two women plead guilty to second-degree murder.

Ingham County Sheriff Scott Wriggelsworth said upon learning of Siemon's proposal, "Everybody that's involved in this case, in these cases, thinks this plea offer is ridiculous."

In August 2021, Wriggelsworth and a group of police chiefs called out Siemon for her decision to limit the occasions she would pursue felony firearm charges.

The Lansing State Journal reported that Siemon believed that refusing to hold criminals to account would aid in decreasing racial disparities in the criminal justice system.

Then-Stockbridge Police Chief John Torres said, "If she doesn’t want to prosecute the law, I think she should resign."

Wriggelsworth called her soft-on-crime approach "misguided" and suggested it "puts us all in danger. ... Our community should be outraged."

The sheriff added that Siemon's "policy is terrible for Ingham County, terrible for the community."

Siemon's policy proved terrible for students at Michigan State University this week.

Democrat policy at work

TheBlaze previously reported that a 43-year-old black suspect, whom police have identified as McRae, killed three MSU students: Arielle Diamond Anderson, Brian Fraser, and Alexandria “Alex” Verner.

MSU Police indicated that shots were fired after 8 p.m. near Berkey Hall on the East Lansing campus. After the initial shooting, the gunman reportedly opened fire at the MSU Union, where students often gather to eat or study.

Five additional victims were transported to E.W. Sparrow Hospital with "life-threatening" injuries.

When law enforcement closed in on the suspect with the help of a public tip nearly four hours after the initial shooting, the gunman committed suicide with a gun the Democrat DA's office enabled him to possess legally.

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Michigan State Shooter Had Prior Felony Gun Charge Dismissed By Progressive Prosecutor

A gunman who killed three and wounded five others at Michigan State University on Monday would likely have been in prison at the time of the shooting had he not had felony gun charges dismissed by a progressive prosecutor. Anthony McRae was charged in June 2019 with illegally carrying a concealed handgun without a permit, […]

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Anti-War Vandals Deface 9/11 Memorial at Michigan State University

Anti-war vandals defaced a 9/11 memorial at Michigan State University for the second year in a row.

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Whitlock: Mel Tucker’s $95 million contract serves Michigan State’s boosters and super-agent Jimmy Sexton more than Tucker



We will soon learn whether Michigan State coach Mel Tucker suffers from premature veneration. It's a projectile dysfunction that afflicts many football coaches. It's when projections of greatness far exceed actual accomplishments and a school or franchise vastly overpays a promising head coach.

The coach prematurely goes limp, leaving the team, fans, and decision-makers totally unsatisfied.

The highest-profile example of premature veneration happened at Notre Dame 16 years ago. After a 5-2 start and reaching No. 9 in the polls, the Fighting Irish made Charlie Weis the highest-paid coach in college football, lavishing the former Bill Belichick assistant with a 10-year, $40-million contract. After his hot start, Weis lost 25 of his next 55 games at Notre Dame.

Notre Dame fired Weis halfway through his groundbreaking 10-year contract.

So here we are again. The Detroit Free Press reported yesterday that Michigan State plans to extend the contract of its second-year head coach to the tune of 10 years and $95 million. At an average salary of $9.5 million, Tucker would be the third highest-paid coach in college football, trailing only Alabama's Nick Saban and Clemson's Dabo Swinney. Saban would earn approximately $200,000 more than Tucker and Swinney about $8,000.

Saban has won seven national championships. Swinney has won two.

In three years as a head coach, including one season at Colorado, Tucker has one winning season and a career record of 16-13. This extension smells like premature veneration. Tucker has gone from dating Instagram models to hopping in bed with Mia Khalifa, the adult film star.

The record contract might be far more than Tucker can handle.

Let me say it in a different way by quoting the street philosopher and adult rap star Christopher Wallace, aka Notorious B.I.G.

"Mo Money Mo Problems."

Most people have more trouble handling success than failure. There are a million books written about overcoming adversity and failure. Success makes you an author, which is short for authority. Success means you have all the answers. Success allows you to write your own rules. Most people can't handle that.

Mel Tucker no longer has to answer to a boss, the school's athletic director or school president. His critics are now irrelevant. It's game over. Tucker hit the lottery. According to the National Endowment for Financial Education, about 70% of lottery winners go broke in a few short years.

I get why Michigan State is paying Tucker. LSU and USC were allegedly interested in hiring Tucker. Tucker has NFL coaching experience. An NFL franchise would likely offer Tucker a job this off-season. The competition to employ Tucker was going to be intense.

Plus, two MSU boosters are financing Tucker's new contract. Mat Ishbia and Steve St. Andre, two Detroit-area businessmen, are paying for Tucker's whopping contract. Ishbia was a walk-on basketball player on Michigan State's 1999 national championship team. Ishbia is the president, chairman, and CEO of the largest wholesale mortgage lending company in America. He's worth nearly $7 billion. He previously gave $32 million to the Michigan State athletics department.

He's a white male billionaire who loves his alma mater, loves sports, and understands the value of good publicity. Investing in Mel Tucker is "cancel culture" insurance. Ishbia wed himself to a high-profile black football coach. Mel Tucker's new last name is Ishbia.

I don't write any of that to denigrate Ishbia or Tucker. I'm writing it to explain another one of the factors that led to Tucker being paid like he's Saban or Dabo. It's brilliant marketing by Ishbia and St. Andre.

But will all the money harm Tucker's evolution as a coach? Would Tucker's long-term success be better served by a contract that pays him $7 million a year for five years? Will the contract and the headlines sparked by the contract create unreasonable expectations around Tucker?

Tucker's deal will change the market for college coaches. Saban and Swinney and others will get raises because of the deal handed to Tucker. But the headlines about Tucker's deal will not go away. His name will be attached to Saban and Swinney moving forward. This Saturday, when Michigan State faces Ohio State, you will hear plenty of discussion of Tucker's contract. If the seventh-ranked Spartans lose to the fourth-ranked Buckeyes, you will hear that Tucker earns more money than Ohio State's Ryan Day.

Sometimes less really is more. A little less money would've protected Tucker's growth. I don't blame Tucker for taking the contract. I blame the overzealous boosters and Tucker's agent, Jimmy Sexton. I'm not vilifying Sexton, Ishbia, or St. Andre. They're all well-intentioned.

However, they're doing what serves them. Jimmy Sexton is arguably the most powerful man in college football. Tucker getting paid as much as Saban and Swinney serves Sexton. He represents nearly every college coach who matters. Changing the market serves Sexton. Over the next decade, Sexton will make far more money off the new market than Tucker will.

Sexton can't lose. Tucker can. The whole sports world might see him prematurely venerated on national TV. He could end with a big pile of money and Charlie Weis' reputation. Tucker was already making $5 million a year. He was always going to end up with a big pile of money. This new contract puts his reputation at risk.