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)
