[PEN-L:1485] Re: Message from Jim Craven

[Rosser Jr, John Barkley]

Jim,
     Very sorry these creeps on your case more and again.  
Is there anything we can do to help?
Barkley Rosser
On Fri, 11 Dec 1998 11:42:36 -0500 Louis Proyect 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Dear Friends,
> 
> I just received a memo from our illustrious Interim Vice-President of
> Instruction who has reviewed the e-mails I was ordered to turn over at risk of
> dismissal from employment for refusal to turn them over, and he, a music
> teacher/administrator wannabe, has determined that my e-mails are personal and
> not in accordance with the "business" of  Clark College. Apparently, the
> "business" of Clark College is not ideas and education or indeed even the
> touted campus-wide abilities (Critical Thinking/Problem Solving, Effective
> Citizenship, Information/Technology Awareness, Global/Multicultural
> Perspectives, Communication and Life-long Learning), it is most certainly not
> freedom of speech (except for insider toadies and sycophants), rather the
> "business" of Clark College is landscape, architecture (with the names of
> illustrious adminstrators on them), lots of paperwork from meaningless
> committees producing meaningless stuff from meaningless insiders, and of
> course, big offices for megalomanical administrators with very big
> egos--without portfolio.
> 
> So because there is no professional reason for a professor of economics to be
> writing to pen-l, I have been ordered not to use the campus system to wirte or
> respond to pen-l. Because there is no professional reason for the Advisor of
> the Native American Student Club to be reading and writing on  Sovernet-l, or
> Warriornet or to be communicating with the Blackfoot Reservation at Browning,
> I am barred from using campus computers to write to them and other Indians on
> the net. Because there is no relationship between any of the forementioned
> "campus-wide abilities"--especially Effective Citizenship amd
> Global/Multicultural Perspectives--and reading or writing about or doing
> activism dealing with Genocide or Indian Sovereignty or Racism, I am barred
> from using campus resources to be in contact with a host of international
> sources on those subjects.
> 
> All of this comes from administrators who could not pass even my first exam in
> an Intro Course in Economics presuming to know what my "professional
> responsibilities" and subjects of coverage are as a teacher of economics and
> practicing economist. This order has never been given in the history of Clark
> College--even to one faculty member caught and cited by the State Ethics
> Committe (where they still threaten to take my e-mails--please do, I really
> hope they do) downloading child pornography and even soliciting pornographic
> polaroids from children according to press accounts and the Washington State
> Patrol who went through his computer (only after a warrant was obtained--and
> subsequently blown which is why he got off of criminal charges). And even
> after being written up in the Campus Newspaper for work on Residential Schools
> and with solicitous e-mails from the College President Dr. Hasart encouraging
> my work on Indian Issues, apparently now, my contact with a long list of
> listservs and scholars and activists is not consistent with my "professional
> responsibilities" or the "business" of Clark College.
> 
> So Michael, would you please sign me up at this address:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]? And all who care to write me, please use this address
> instead of my Clark address.
> 
> This of course is only the beginning. The more wreckless the administration
> gets, the more they reveal their true intentions and their weaknesses. I for
> one will comply with every order (according to the order I could not even use
> the campus computer to contact pen-l to notify pen-l not to contact me at the
> College) and, in the principles of Akido, their wreckless, arrogant and
> fascistic contempt for due process, freedom of speech, academic freedom, their
> own campus-wide abilities and my own professional responsibilities will only
> reveal them for what they are and what they intend--and will, thus, become a
> counter-force against them.
> 
> Because many (not all ) administrators are typically sycophants, narcissists,
> megalomaniacs, control/power freaks and intellectually/life experience
> challenged, they invariably sew the seeds of their own destruction. This was
> the case of the past Dean who was finally turfed out (a close friend of this
> present Interim Vice-President) with a relatively good reference (at least
> that did not tell all) and a baldface--lie cover story as to why he was
> leaving. Typical at many institutions I suspect.
> 
> For all who have sent their kind letters of support, I will now contact you
> individually to give my heartfelt thanks. I will of course fight this and it
> is very clear that it is but another atttempt to set up an insubordination
> situation or cause me to go unstable mentally--to be used to facilitate
> dismissal. The good news is that these pathetic souls are so dumb, they use
> the same Modus Operandi over and over and thus reveal "patterns" of behavior
> of themselves--very useful in a wide legal discovery net--more than
> revealing--or even engineering--patterns of behavior on my part that may be
> useful to them.
> 
> Again thanks to all for your support and most of all for teaching me about so
> many things I need to know to be a competent teacher and practicioner of
> economics---and activist.
> 
> Jim Craven
> 
> 
> Louis Proyect
> 
> (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)
> 

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Rosser Jr, John Barkley
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