Hang in there Jim! It all sounds so familiar! ajit sinha At 11:42 11/12/98 -0500, you wrote: >Dear Friends, > >I just received a memo from our illustrious Interim Vice-President of >Instruction who has reviewed the e-mails I was ordered to turn over at risk of >dismissal from employment for refusal to turn them over, and he, a music >teacher/administrator wannabe, has determined that my e-mails are personal and >not in accordance with the "business" of Clark College. Apparently, the >"business" of Clark College is not ideas and education or indeed even the >touted campus-wide abilities (Critical Thinking/Problem Solving, Effective >Citizenship, Information/Technology Awareness, Global/Multicultural >Perspectives, Communication and Life-long Learning), it is most certainly not >freedom of speech (except for insider toadies and sycophants), rather the >"business" of Clark College is landscape, architecture (with the names of >illustrious adminstrators on them), lots of paperwork from meaningless >committees producing meaningless stuff from meaningless insiders, and of >course, big offices for megalomanical administrators with very big >egos--without portfolio. > >So because there is no professional reason for a professor of economics to be >writing to pen-l, I have been ordered not to use the campus system to wirte or >respond to pen-l. Because there is no professional reason for the Advisor of >the Native American Student Club to be reading and writing on Sovernet-l, or >Warriornet or to be communicating with the Blackfoot Reservation at Browning, >I am barred from using campus computers to write to them and other Indians on >the net. Because there is no relationship between any of the forementioned >"campus-wide abilities"--especially Effective Citizenship amd >Global/Multicultural Perspectives--and reading or writing about or doing >activism dealing with Genocide or Indian Sovereignty or Racism, I am barred >from using campus resources to be in contact with a host of international >sources on those subjects. > >All of this comes from administrators who could not pass even my first exam in >an Intro Course in Economics presuming to know what my "professional >responsibilities" and subjects of coverage are as a teacher of economics and >practicing economist. This order has never been given in the history of Clark >College--even to one faculty member caught and cited by the State Ethics >Committe (where they still threaten to take my e-mails--please do, I really >hope they do) downloading child pornography and even soliciting pornographic >polaroids from children according to press accounts and the Washington State >Patrol who went through his computer (only after a warrant was obtained--and >subsequently blown which is why he got off of criminal charges). And even >after being written up in the Campus Newspaper for work on Residential Schools >and with solicitous e-mails from the College President Dr. Hasart encouraging >my work on Indian Issues, apparently now, my contact with a long list of >listservs and scholars and activists is not consistent with my "professional >responsibilities" or the "business" of Clark College. > >So Michael, would you please sign me up at this address: >[EMAIL PROTECTED]? And all who care to write me, please use this address >instead of my Clark address. > >This of course is only the beginning. The more wreckless the administration >gets, the more they reveal their true intentions and their weaknesses. I for >one will comply with every order (according to the order I could not even use >the campus computer to contact pen-l to notify pen-l not to contact me at the >College) and, in the principles of Akido, their wreckless, arrogant and >fascistic contempt for due process, freedom of speech, academic freedom, their >own campus-wide abilities and my own professional responsibilities will only >reveal them for what they are and what they intend--and will, thus, become a >counter-force against them. > >Because many (not all ) administrators are typically sycophants, narcissists, >megalomaniacs, control/power freaks and intellectually/life experience >challenged, they invariably sew the seeds of their own destruction. This was >the case of the past Dean who was finally turfed out (a close friend of this >present Interim Vice-President) with a relatively good reference (at least >that did not tell all) and a baldface--lie cover story as to why he was >leaving. Typical at many institutions I suspect. > >For all who have sent their kind letters of support, I will now contact you >individually to give my heartfelt thanks. I will of course fight this and it >is very clear that it is but another atttempt to set up an insubordination >situation or cause me to go unstable mentally--to be used to facilitate >dismissal. The good news is that these pathetic souls are so dumb, they use >the same Modus Operandi over and over and thus reveal "patterns" of behavior >of themselves--very useful in a wide legal discovery net--more than >revealing--or even engineering--patterns of behavior on my part that may be >useful to them. > >Again thanks to all for your support and most of all for teaching me about so >many things I need to know to be a competent teacher and practicioner of >economics---and activist. > >Jim Craven > > >Louis Proyect > >(http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html) > >
