The following was posted on the Hunter-L listserv and I received noticed that it was one of the reasons that my privileges were suspended. Hunter-L use to be a gateway of information but then it was decided that too much information wasn’t in the best interest of the special interests on campus, especially the ones supportive of “Dirty Linen.”
Attention Hunter Administration
It has come to my attention that a Colleague is on a mission encouraging students and former students to provide scandalous scuttlebutt to the D:F/M Chair about a tenured D:F/M Colleague. That info is to be passed to you, The Hunter Administration. A diabolical witch hunt of this tenured professor? Egad!
An attached jpg file, a sampling of file info, an incriminating smoking gun. Rest of narrative is in attached word file.
Best,
Gregg Morris
D:F/MColleague Billy D. Herman, as revealed in the attached jpg sample, “have you ever taken any of his classes … can you wrangle others?” More: “… whatever you’d like to say in writing to the administration is greatly appreciated. Send to Prof. Jay Roman … cc Tina Turner.”
Wrangle others?-!!! Greatly appreciated?-!!!
To think that more than 10 years ago, Colleagues in cahoots with the Student Liberation Action Movement, tried to take control of the WORD, to coerce its editor/instructor to publish articles of their choosing in the publication primarily used by the instructor to teach journalism. Part of that nefarious plan called for humiliating the Colleague so much at a faculty meeting that he would surrender editorial control. The plan of long ago was ignominiously shot down when the targeted Colleague, to the surprise of Colleagues at that faculty meeting – those involved in the plot and those ready to go along with it – sprung Plan XYZ.
Nevertheless, that ignominious setting triggered the longest running academic scandal at Hunter if not City University of New York as Colleagues (and some staff) sprung their own plans, which took the forms of classroom, class and office invasions and invasive behavior that included Colleagues’ insulting female students in classes and the office of the instructor (in that weird male behavior that can be seen in very bad macho B-movies); grade, grade appeal scandals at an unprecedented degree; and, of course, multiple altercations of a serious nature.
A colossal, almost never ending reign of vilification and vituperation as well as sundry Academic Freedom and Academic Integrity violations with overtones of race, racism, bigotry* of an unparalleled level on this campus?
Now comes this: A headhunt by the 17th floor? Because of the Moveon.org petition to supporting anti-workplace bullying legislation? [Anyone reading this memo can sign here: http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/make-nys-healthy-workplace?source=c.em.cp&r_by=7603820 ] The record number of grade appeals? The complaint against Dean Rose? All those other complaints?
As I wrote my Colleagues in a memo a few days ago, using or trying to exploit the angst of students and alumni/alumnae for agendas that have nothing to do with learning and teaching can result in unpredictable consequences. A nasty exchange with the former Ruth and Harold Newman Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, Dr. Erec R. Koch (now Baruch royalty as Associate Provost for Academic Administration and Faculty Development) is a good example, that being allegations that a Hunter alumna had been dissed on Facebook page by this instructor and Koch was assigned to investigate, not knowing important details.
Will the Billy D. Herman Chapter get more play than the “Hit me … hit me” scandal of a while back? The Clemente Soto Velez screening scandal? More than the incredulous snookering incident ever to be connected to this campus: Yahoo news, other Internet news mills, one blog and tweets ran with news versions of a pout by alumna Vanessa Casavant who was kicked off a Facebook page operated by this instructor for engaging in deceit. She contacted President Raab with a lugubrious moan about being dissed. Former Dean Koch was dispatched to deal with the alleged dis. Names in the snookering episode as reported by the previous media: President Raab, John Rose, Jay Roman. All snookered.
Best,
Gregg Morris
D:F/M*According to several attorney consultations and legal research, there are forms of institutionalized racism and bigotry that can’t be addressed with employment discrimination laws on the books. Racists, bigots coddled by the law? Egad!
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