I just left from a meeting with the VP for Academic Affairs where I was taken off suspension and now I am allowed to walk on campus again. There was no apology given. However, I did not ask for one.
Thank you very much to those of you who wrote letters of support. I believe the letters helped to speed up the process by which I was reinstated. Whether they did or not, I can tell you with certainty that they provided important emotional support at a time that I was feeling quite at sea. Regards, Bill Scott >>> Paul Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02/28/08 6:46 PM >>> 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 >-- > >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]) -- The best argument against intelligent design is that people believe in it. * PAUL K. BRANDON [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Psychology Department 507-389-6217 * * 23 Armstrong Hall Minnesota State University, Mankato * * http://krypton.mnsu.edu/~pkbrando/ * --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
