Posted
4/07/2004 05:02:00 PM
by Douglas
This story just keeps getting weirder. She trashes her own car, and now the rest of her
checkered past comes to light.
Kerri Dunn taught criminal justice but she was a shoplifter. While earning a PhD in psychology, she was ordered into counseling for stealing.
Dunn, 39, was a hero to many students at Claremont McKenna College, lifting her voice for the oppressed. Then she became the professor who may have betrayed them.
She railed against hate crimes. Now she is suspected of staging one.
Dunn - a Catholic converting to Judaism - prided herself on being passionate and outspoken. But court records and interviews with colleagues, students, friends and police reveal a woman of contradiction and secrets.
So, when there isn't enough racial tension and division on campus, just make it up. This woman has got to be Coo Coo For Cocoa Puffs. But what's even more bizarre is that after it was determined that she had done it,
after canceling classes due to the incident, they were still able to hold anti-hate crime rallies. Because, you know, this incident
could have been a hate crime.
But this is the best part. Kerri, drive it home for us:
"The bummer of the whole thing," said Dunn at the time, "was having to rent a car."
Yep, after setting back race relations twenty years and totally destroying your career and credibility, the worst part was getting a rental car.