Santa Monica College Sex Scandals Exposed: Part 2

In Santa Monica College Sex Scandals Exposed: Part 1, we gave you an overview on the secret agendas at the Academy of Entertainment and Technology. While AET Professor Jim Keeshen was jet setting around the globe to Korea to work on his animated film, his rival AET Professor David Javelosa was off skydiving and prancing around half nude on his hidden AET webpages. Javelosa gave a new meaning to "Pretty in Pink." While Javelosa was hogging up hundreds of megs of school server space for his less than tasteful photos, skydiving videos, and personal mp3 songs, the Academy couldn't be bothered with giving its students space to display their work online.

Heck, even Javelosa's son, Luca, was afforded the luxury of precious AET web space and bandwidth for his photos and projects. Under the et13 directory, there was a secret folder called "Lizard." Now, it wasn't simple to get to this secret hyperlink. The user has to first find Javelosa's secret site, then click on the image of him that rolled over, and then click to a page that read: "Dragons and Friends are Welcome. Others beware." Ahem, as a student at AET, I should beware going on my school's server? Well, I took the chance and came to this page:



Gee, you could even email Luca Javelosa. You'd think this was a MySpace site, not a vocational school paid for with the public's hard earned money. If you still have doubts, here's another screenshot of Luca on the AET website. He even had an entire photo spread with dad.



Luca the Lizard? Hmm... Now, keep in mind that SMC went ahead and suspended me for using the AET computer lab despite being a paid and enrolled student as well as a teaching assistant for Jim Keeshen. Not only was I doing cancer research for Keeshen, I was working on an important project on the Holocaust. According to Assistant Dean of Judicial Affairs (a.k.a., the Campus Disciplinarian) Judith Penchansky and AET Dean Katharine Muller, none of these legitimate educational activities warranted computer lab privileges. Well, all my other classmates were allowed to use the computer lab. Oh, I forgot, they weren't disabled students, like myself. So, while I'm doing the educational work I paid for, out comes the SMCPD to scare me away from the computer lab and school servers. Meanwhile, Javelosa is using this same school server as his personal MySpace gallery for his family.

Oh, but David Javelosa did have a MySpace account as well. He's listed as David Microwave. He describes himself as a 52 year-old male from Mar Vista, California. Since his last login was a few days ago on June 12, 2006, we can assume the information is current. Javelosa's logline reads: "O.G. Techno Freak." In his "about me" section he writes the following:

I'm a seriously fun-loving guy with a wide range of interests that center mostly around music. I've been in bands, indie labels, performance tours, video game soundtracks, music technology and game academics (javelosa.com). I love to travel and have become passionate about scuba and sky diving. Also being in the mountains, biking, walking, swimming, yoga, etc. Since I've been teaching, I have a lot of time to write and record electronic music and perform at festivals. But the best part is actually the teaching. Kids are the future and I love teaching them what they love. I like living at the beach but spend time in Hollywood, the Bay Area, Sierras, the east coast, and abroad.

That's nice that Professor Javelosa's teaching, of which he receives a rather hefty salary, affords him so much time to have so much fun. Seeing is believing, so here's a screenshot:

Oh, look what we have here: Javelosa advertises his SMC AET redirect javelosa.com site. Now, I want you to ask yourself what a 52 year-old man is doing on MySpace advertising young people to go to our AET school server to view photos of him semi-nude and to download teenage sex and G-Spot music? Under "Who I'd Like to Meet," Javelosa states the following: "Goddesses; brainy style junkies; new wave music fans; single parents for vacation playdates."

Single parents for vacation playdates? But under his details section in status, he lists that he's "married." I'm not even going to go there. Let's take a peek at Javelosa's MySpace blog instead.

In his February 2, 2005 blog entry, Javelosa states in relevant part the following:

What a whirlwind.....
the fall flashed by in a blink!
- performances with Monica went well at SMC and SD
- semester ended with issues about the program at school

What issues about the AET program? Let's look at an August 18, 2004 blog entry:

Got back from a brilliant trip to London with Luca. We saw every free museum we could get our selves to! Spent a day in Brighton Beach; a lovely sea side town with out the bustle of central London. Also caught the Queen musical, We Will Rock You! All in all, the high-point of our summer.

So now back to fall...
I'm teaching 6 classes this fall covering 4 subject preps. At least I'm of the hook for asst. chair! I hate politics, especially small-time academic ones...
I'm up at my dad's prepping class sites and deluding myself that I might actually work on some music. Got a wedding in SF Sat. and I'm back Sun. night in time for school next week.
I'm also back to London for a game conference, and Labour day weekend in Portugal.
yes, I shall be a wreck...

But I am up to level 6 in my skydiving classes. Solo 360 turns, docking, and landings!
Next jump, I get pushed out of the plane to see how fast I can stabilize...
You must try it sometime...

So, this confirms his son's name is Luca Javelosa. By the way, who paid for this game conference in London? Did Santa Monica College? This is my favorite Javelosa quote:

I'm teaching 6 classes this fall covering 4 subject preps. At least I'm of the hook for asst. chair! I hate politics, especially small-time academic ones...

So, straight for the horse's mouth, our own Academy Professor describes Katharine Muller's Academy of Entertainment and Technology vocational school as small-time academic politics. So, Perhaps Jim Keeshen and Javelosa have more in common than they think. Remember that memorable quote from Jim Keeshen back around September 2005:

I don’t care about Julie Yarrish and I don’t care about [Winniphred] Stone and I don’t care about [Judith] Penchansky. I have to live with them because we’re swimming in the same pond.

Well, as usual, here's a screenshot of Javelosa's MySpace blog entry:



So, with Jim Keeshen worrying more about his Day of the Dead animated film, Javelosa worrying more about having a good time, William Lancaster securing a questionable sabbatical to improve his typography freelance business, and Dean Katharine Muller securing covert deals with Electronic Arts for her friends Piedad Robertson and Winniphred Stone at the Education Commission of the States, is it any wonder the AET program is suffering? Even great professors such as Jeannie Novak have taken flight to teach at better schools where she's more appreciated. It seems that Santa Monica College has a double standard when it comes to the conduct of its professors and another for its students. It is perfectly fine for our full time faculty to be critical of the school and to focus their efforts elsewhere, but if a single student is critical, the school jumps all over him or her with police force and wrongful disciplinary sanctions.

Here's a few little statistics about MySpace and Sexual Predators. According to a recent article by post-gazette.com business news:

Internet security and law enforcement officials say the personal data publicly available on MySpace and similar networking sites, matched with innocent attitudes by youths, make the sites ripe for information-digging sexual predators.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has received at least 288 MySpace-related complaints, according to U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan in Pittsburgh.

Ms. Buchanan said MySpace was a "significant concern" for law enforcement. For pedophiles, she said, "MySpace creates a smorgasbord."

That said, a 52 year-old college professor who teaches video games such as David Javelosa and advertising anyone who visits MySpace to visit his javelosa.com site, cloaked as a hidden site on SMC's AET server, that then directs these young folks to teenage sex music and downloadable provocative mp3 music and revealing photos of himself should not be encouraged or endorsed by Santa Monica College. More importantly, we as taxpayers should not be paying for this!

In Part 3, we will finally see how all this behavior by our AET faculty trickled down into the student body and how it has damaged not only the reputation of the school, but disrupted students' lives as well.

-- Des Manttari,
Editor-in-Chief,
Phoenix Genesis

(c) 2006: Phoenix Genesis/MBS LP

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