Was talking to an old buddy of mine whom I met at MIU - he was there for 8 years total cuz he got 2 grad degrees and his undergrad there - spent some time in the summers on staff.
He liked other points of view which led him to being a big Charlie Lutes fan, and led him also to attend one Robin Carlson meeting. As he put it, "They must have had spies at the meeting cause the day after I went I got hauled into the administrators office for a lengthy interrogation with the TM-Sidhi administrators and James Beddinger." He said that for years after that event whenever he applied for any kind of WPA they questioned him about Robin Carlsen and his affiliation with RC. He also told me he had two friends that really got into going to see RC - these were students who of course were required to go to Dome twice a day, and after the MIU people got wind of their interest in RC they tried to kick them out of the Dome since it was feared they would be doing "other techniques" but these two boys apparently took them to court and the judge ruled that since according to MIU rules Dome attendance was a mandatory part of the school curriculum and these boys had paid their tuition, they were legally entitled to attend. Well, evidently James Beddinger was not aware of this, or didn't care because as my friend put it: "There we were in the Dome gettin' ready to do program, right in the beginning you know, when everybody is settling down and still filing in and here comes James telling my two friends to leave, that they were not welcome in the Dome anymore. Before they could argue much, up popped Bill Goldstein who told James he couldn't remove them because of the judge's ruling. James didn't like it at all, especially when one of my buddies offered him some sass about it, right to his face." Since I never cared for Little Jimmy I liked this story quiet a bit.
