…Carl Singley for Mayor, please no. I remember Carl from my college days at Temple University. He was the dean of the law school in 1987. I was a journalism undergrad working as a reporter/editor for the Temple News.
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If Singley didn’t like a law student, for whatever reason, he put a letter in that student’s file saying he or she should not be allowed to sit for the bar exam after spending thousands to attend the school and earning their degrees.

He also feuded with several members of the faculty, famously blocking one injured professor’s car with his own simply because she had the audicity to defy him and park in a handicap spot despite his order against it.

Most importantly, the law students hated him.

Singley thought it was a black-white thing.

Then-Temple President Peter Liacouras made matters worse when he had the locks on Singley’s door changed, rather than fire the first black law school dean in the university’s history face-to-face. Hours later, the university issued a press release announcing Singley’s dismissal.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 27th, 2006 at 11:21 am.