Appalling DePaulia anti-Klocek Op-Ed writer a member of UMMA

As I've blogged before, a couple of issues back there was an awful and unfair op-ed piece in the DePaul school newspaper, The DePaulia, entitled Goodbye, Klocek. Thanks, DPU by Michael Gallo, who is listed as a staff writer for the paper.

Professor Klocek disputes much of what Gallo claims in that op-ed. In a letter-to-the editor that appeared in the following issue, Jonathan Cohen, a DePaul math professor, spelled out Klocek's side of the story. DePaulia sharply edited Cohen's letter, luckily the entire letter is available here on Marathon Pundit.

But mysteriously, Cohen's letter to the editor is no longer available online, whereas Gallo's op-ed is.

The DePaulia first covered Klocek story on October 1, 2004: Loop professor takes heat for conduct. As with Michael Gallo's op-ed, Professor Klocek strongly challenges many of the details in that initial write up in the DePaulia

One of the offended groups, according to first article, was United Muslims Moving Ahead, better known as UMMA.

Looking around the UMMA DePaul website, a visitor will find the link to the UMMA Board, or Shura.

Click here, and the reader will discover that the treasusuer of UMMA is none other than Michael Gallo, DePaulia staff writer and author of Goodbye Klocek, Thanks DPU.

Mysteriously, nowhere in that op-ed does Michael Gallo bother to inform the reader that he's an UMMA board member. As a member of that group, of course he has the right to write almost anything he wants, but Gallo, in a serious breach of of journalistic ethics, neglected to mention his ties to UMMA as he presented his views on the Klocek case.

And did The DePaulia know Michael Gallo was on the UMMA board?

(Edited 6:15pm 5/16/05. I'm not sure what style book they use, but it has come to my attention that although Michael Gallo is listed in the Goodbye Klocek, Thanks DPU article as a "staff writer," Gallo is probably not actually on the DePaulia staff. Apparently, anyone that gets anything published in the DePaulia, is listed as a "staff writer." Weird. It's my firm opinion that this by no means gets Michael Gallo off the hook for not disclosing his membership on the board of UMMA.)