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VANCOUVER — Assisted suicide expert and criminology instructor Russel Ogden hasn’t been seen at scandal-plagued Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) since 2008. Concerns have been raised; posters drawing attention to his disappearance are displayed at the school’s main Surrey campus in suburban Vancouver.

“What has Kwantlen done with Russel Ogden?” reads one poster.

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Mr. Ogden is neither dead nor in hiding. He’s living in the Vancouver area. What’s more, he’s still drawing his KPU salary. The paycheques have never stopped coming, even though the criminologist hasn’t taught a single course at the university in six years.

According to public records, he received $87,910 from KPU in the last fiscal year. For what services, the school administration refuses to say.

One faculty member calls it a “bizarre situation” in which Mr. Ogden is “paid [as] a full-time faculty member but teaches no courses for KPU and seems to be banned physically from any KPU campus.”