At 8:55 PM -0600 2/27/08, William Scott wrote:
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.
Is it possible that your IT people are monitoring all email
correspondence for suspect contents?
It could be automated.
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
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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.
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