Bill- YEAHH!!!!!!! If I were in your shoes, I'd be interested in those questions as well. But for now- GO HAVE A COLD ONE!! Or whatever takes you to your happy place, as it were! I don't want to be suggesting alcohol if you are a friend of Bill! (Guess what my family was like!)
I turned myself in to the dean yesterday. ;) For informational purposes only. Basically I asked him was this response necessary (from the schools perspective) if I had sent Bill's email instead of mine (adjacent). Though our dean is an old friend he said, "I'd have to do the same thing". (Backside covering moment!). He did say he'd try to make it as, "Brief and painless," as possible. We'd look at the context, ask you for an explanation, that kind of thing. At which point I said, "Wouldn't it be more reasonable to ask me first?" He said, "Off the record yes. But no one would." I doubt that makes it feel any better. Tim _______________________________ Timothy O. Shearon, PhD Professor and Chair Department of Psychology The College of Idaho Caldwell, ID 83605 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] teaching: intro to neuropsychology; psychopharmacology; general; history and systems "What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal." - Albert Pike -----Original Message----- From: Miguel Roig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 2/29/2008 12:02 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] this world is getting crazy - update Bill, I'm very glad to hear that the situation has now been resolved. However, I still have to wonder exactly how your TIPS post ended up in the administration's hands. Was it, as someone suggested, a situation where specialized software that is being used at Wooster automatically flagged it down? or perhaps someone from TIPS or from the outside who may have picked up on the post and inadvertently interpreted it out of context, and sent it to the administration? Or, perhaps someone who did so with the intention of causing you harm? I would be more than curious about the circumstances that led to this ugly incident. Miguel -----Original Message----- From: William Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 1:33 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] this world is getting crazy - update 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]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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