Johnny Lechner Explained

John A. "Johnny" Lechner[1] is an American film and television actor best known who appeared as Alan Reese on the Showtime television series Girls of Sunset Place (2012) and as Greg "Fossil" Karanowski in the movie Fraternity House (2008).[2] He is also known for being a perpetual student at the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater, having studied there from 1995 until 2010.

Academic career

Lechner was born in Fort Hood, Texas, but grew up in Pewaukee, Wisconsin. Lechner graduated from Waukesha North High School in 1994.

Lechner did not graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in 2006,[3] 2007,[4] 2008,[5] or 2009,[6] despite having enough credits to graduate with nine majors and five minors.[7] Lechner announced that he had transferred to a different college in California in 2010.[8]

At Whitewater, Lechner won a campus "Big Man on Campus" beauty pageant, studied abroad in, "Paris, London, Amsterdam, Rome, Florence, Venice and Switzerland," and South Africa.[9] He appeared on Late Show with David Letterman and Good Morning America, was named one of Peoples "Hot Bachelors",[10] ran for student body president, and appeared in two films, including Minor League: A Football Story and a starring role in Fraternity House.[11]

The "Johnny Lechner rule"

According to Lechner, the Wisconsin Board of Regents instituted a "Johnny Lechner rule"[3] [12] [13] requiring long-term students to pay twice the standard in-state tuition rate.

Notes and References

  1. "Lechner, John A" University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Retrieved 16 April 2010.
  2. Web site: Prizevoits . Antonijs . 2009-08-02 . Fraternity House . 2024-06-14 . Apple TV . en-US.
  3. Maternowski, Kate. "Lechner aims to graduate, finally" The Badger Herald, 20 April 2006.
  4. Smith, Susan Lampert. "AN OLD STORY GETS A LITTLE OLDER" Wisconsin State Journal, 20 May 2007.
  5. "Longtime UW-W student plans one more year " The Janesville Gazette, 16 May 2007.
  6. "Durhams, Sharif. A cap and gown for UW-Whitewater's perpetual student?" Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 May 2009.
  7. Web site: Johnny Lechner - College Student since 1994. 16 April 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20100315085936/http://www.johnnylechner.com/home.htm. 15 March 2010.
  8. Web site: May 15th 2010 . 2010-05-15 . 2021-09-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120403071954/http://www.johnnylechner.com/blog.htm . 2012-04-03. dead.
  9. "Career Student Up for 13th Year" The Associated Press, 11 May 2006.
  10. "They Really, Really Need a Woman" People, 26 June 2006.
  11. Welch, Chris. "HE'S MAKING MOVIES, BUT DON'T COUNT ON A 'GRADUATE' REMAKE" Wisconsin State Journal, 9 August 2009.
  12. Erickson, Doug. "The Real World Can Wait" Wisconsin State Journal, 7 April 2005.
  13. Dillon, Sam. "For One Student, a College Career Becomes a Career." The New York Times, 10 November 2005.