The Register Guard
http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/dt.cms.support.viewStory.cls?cid=119578&sid=4&fid=1
This story is a profile piece about Alan Contreras, who is employed by the Office of Degree Authorization for the State of Oregon. His job is to verify college degrees and to track companies who hand out fake degrees.
Bolt begins his story with the line "Alan Contreras considers himself an accidental expert." It was this lead and the title of the article that grabbed my attention. As a college student, I was aware that you were able to buy a fake degree, but I did not realize that it was easy to pass one by an employer and that there was an entire department working for the State of Oregon to stop them.
Bolt also shows that Contreras is much more than just his job. He goes on to describe some of his other jobs and hobbies and really allows the reader to grasp a full image of this man and how he got started working for the Office of Degree Authorization.
It's an overall short profile piece but well-written nonetheless.
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