Former President Priscilla Slade’s grand jury testimony won’t be unsealed so Slade’s former assistant can review it for inconsistencies, although the testimony will be available for a grand jury review.
TSU has a new interim president — retired Air Force Brigadier General James T. Boddie Jr. The Chronicle‘s Matthew Tresaugue has more:
James Timothy Boddie Jr., who once led NASA’s Aircraft Management Office, will assume the top job at the nation’s second-largest historically black university upon finalizing an employment contract, officials said.
The regents turned to Boddie, 75, after firing Priscilla Slade in June on the grounds that she misspent $286,000 of the school’s money to furnish and landscape her house. Slade and three former aides now face criminal charges.
“Right now TSU needs someone who is rigid, and he fit the bill,” board Chairman J. Paul Johnson said.
And then there’s the matter of TSU’s head tennis coach, who is accused of stealing scholarship money and more (via KHOU-11):
“The only thing I know is that I’m here without money and with an apartment to pay and he won’t care,” said Roxana Martinez a TSU tennis player.
He is Alberto Rojo Jimenez, head tennis coach at TSU.
He also teaches classes at a private club.
“He said I was going to be living in apartments that I shouldn’t be worried about anything he was going to give me clothes, and shoes and rackets and everything,” said Martinez.
Everything a student could ask for except that never happened.
The players who were recruited from countries like Poland, Mexico and Egypt, accuse Rojo Jimenez of taking part of their scholarship money.
“I was evicted because he owes rent for a whole month,” said Christopher Gloc.
Gloc came all the way from Venezuela.
He said his coach not only took his scholarship check but asked him for more money so he reluctantly gave him a credit card. “There was 2000 dollars paid towards the university.”
Yet there’s no record the university ever received that money.
There’s another $500 to an auto repair shop but Gloc doesn’t even own a car.
TSU tells KHOU it’s investigating the situation. A retired brigadier general could be just what TSU needs!
