Dear Colleagues, Should you want to write a letter of support for Bill, you can send it to the President of Wooster at the following addresses:
Grant Cornwell, Ph.D., President of the College of Wooster fax number is 330-263-2539 email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Best, Linda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Also, keep in mind my offer that I am sure many tipsters would agree, to, that >as a small community we are often prone to satire and slightly off beat humor >that we all understand to be hyperbole--and that we would be more than willing >to dredge up archival posts to that effect, and to provide evidence for this >tone of many posts. > >Annette > >Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D. >Professor of Psychology >University of San Diego >5998 Alcala Park >San Diego, CA 92110 >619-260-4006 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >---- Original message ---- > > >>Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:14:11 -0500 >>From: "William Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: RE: [tips] this world is getting crazy >>To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <[email protected]> >> >>Thanks, Dennis >> >>I might need some help, but at this point --less than 24 hours into this >>thing-- I am going to wait and see. I'm still hoping for a quick apology, >>although I know that is unlikely. >> >>Bill >> >> >> >> >>>>>"Dennis Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02/28/08 9:52 AM >>> >>>>> >>>>> >>Bill, >> >>Is there anything that we can do to help out? >>It is hard to believe that we have gone this far down this road. >> >>Dennis >> >> >> >> >>Dennis Goff >>Randolph College >>Lynchburg VA 24503 >> >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: William Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Wed 2/27/2008 9:55 PM >>To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) >>Subject: Re: [tips] this world is getting crazy >> >>The correspondence below is a thread of TIPs that recently happened. I took >>part in it as you can read. Based on this actual exchange, and nothing else, >>I have been suspended from my job (with pay --hooray). My college has decided >>that I am a possible threat to everyone and I must undergo some evaluation >>(as yet to be determined - maybe psychiatric, maybe going through all my >>email, -- who knows). It seems that someone sent a copy of my posting to the >>president of the college saying that I was making terrorist threats. I don't >>know if this was an idiot reading of my post or a friend sending the letter >>as a prank. Regardless, I have been relieved of my position as a tenured >>professor of psychology at the College of Wooster untill this is settled. >> >>This is real. I am not kidding about this. >> >>Originally a member named Michael Sylvester wrote: >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> >>>U miss the point.The shooter's behavior was due to his not taking his >>>meds-nothing more,nothing less. >>> >>> >>In response, Christopher Green of York University (where I used to be a >>faculty member) wrote: >> >>Nothing more, nothing less? By that logic, we should immediately jail >>everyone who stops taking prescribed medications. I think this situation >>is FAR more complicated than whether one takes drugs. >> >>Chris >>-- >> >>Christopher D. Green >>Department of Psychology >>York University >> >>In response to this Tim Shearon of Idaho College wrote: >> >>Chris- You stopped too soon. Let's develop profiles of those who might stop >>taking their meds. We could then prevent this from occurring. (removing >>tongue from cheek for the next few minutes) :) Incidentally I've stopped >>taking my meds. >>Tim >>_______________________________ >>Timothy O. Shearon, PhD >>Professor and Chair Department of Psychology >>The College of Idaho >>Caldwell, ID 83605 >>email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >>In response to this I wrote: >> >>I have stopped taking my meds, too. I was prescribed some prozac a couple of >>years ago when I reported feeling fatigued to my family medicine doctor. I >>quit taking it after a month or so because it seemed to make no difference. >>Last weekend in a discussion of the shootings with some old friends I >>confessed that I responded to the news by thinking of a list of people I >>would blow away at my school in a similar way. >> >>Catch me if you can. >> >>Bill Scott >> >>p.s. The point is that, although all of the above is true, I believe it is >>true for 99.99% of people who have the same story that they will never do >>such a thing. >> >> >>--- >>To make changes to your subscription contact: >> >>Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> >> >>--- >>To make changes to your subscription contact: >> >>Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> >>--- >>To make changes to your subscription contact: >> >>Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> >> > >--- >To make changes to your subscription contact: > >Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > > -- Linda M. Woolf, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology and International Human Rights Past-President, Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, & Violence (Div. 48, APA) <http://www.peacepsych.org> Steering Committee, Psychologists for Social Responsibility (PsySR) <http://www.psysr.org> Secretary, Raphael Lemkin Award Committee, Institute for the Study of Genocide <http://www.isg-iags.org/> Coordinator - Holocaust & Genocide Studies Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Webster University 470 East Lockwood St. Louis, MO 63119 Main Webpage: http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's (and woman's) best friend. . . . Inside a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
