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Anti-war prof in Charleston tries to stifle free speech by threatening student?
Palmetto Journal ^ | 4/29/03

Posted on 04/29/2003 8:20:42 AM PDT by AJ Insider

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1 posted on 04/29/2003 8:20:42 AM PDT by AJ Insider
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To: AJ Insider
Bump for later reading.
2 posted on 04/29/2003 8:24:56 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (Boycott Smuckers Jelly ! ! ! ! !)
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To: Lando Lincoln
Ping!
3 posted on 04/29/2003 8:25:19 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (Boycott Smuckers Jelly ! ! ! ! !)
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To: AJ Insider
Did you notice that the student activist's name is Earl Capps and the police computer forensics technician who cleared Bowers' name is Bill Capps?
4 posted on 04/29/2003 8:26:06 AM PDT by wideawake (Support our troops and their Commander-in-Chief)
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To: Constitution Day; mykdsmom
Just South o the Border Taliban alert! ( This Professor sounds like he graduated from the Al Gore School of Journalism!)
5 posted on 04/29/2003 8:34:23 AM PDT by Madcelt (When you spin reality you only end up dizzy !)
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To: AJ Insider
Professor Shaw would love to submit a list of names of students to be arrested by the political police. Orwell and Koestler had these sonsab*tches number.

Maxwell Shaw is a real Heidegger. ;^)
7 posted on 04/29/2003 8:37:14 AM PDT by headsonpikes
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To: AJ Insider
"The Honor Code specifically forbids lying, cheating, attempted cheating, stealing, attempted stealing and plagiarism."

Sounds like a college professor with the initials of "Maxwell Shaw" could stand a reprimand from the Honors Board himself....

8 posted on 04/29/2003 8:43:35 AM PDT by azhenfud
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To: Jeff Head
Ping/heads up to another college mess.
9 posted on 04/29/2003 8:50:36 AM PDT by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: wideawake
From PalmettoJournal:
UPDATE 11:51 AM EDT: We have learned that the police officer Bill Capps, who investgated Professor Robin Bowers, is the father of Earl Capps.
10 posted on 04/29/2003 8:55:40 AM PDT by AJ Insider
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To: AJ Insider
isn't about time that universities drop tenure?

who else has tenure in america? certainly not the people working to pay taxes to support these parasites.

tenure came about after ww2, when the children of immigrants from europe with communist credentials demanded tenure to be protected politically.
11 posted on 04/29/2003 8:59:30 AM PDT by liberalnot
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To: ConservativeMan55
Greetings CM55....

Thanks for the ping. I'm quite certain that Professor Shaw and his ilk are littered across campuses and universities throughout the US. What is less prevalent are the CM55's and the Earl Capps' among the student body. Think about it, all the power rests with the faculty - it is their domain, their forum, their rules. My hat is off to each of you. You may want to e-mail Mr. Capp and refer him to FR for some crisp logic and as a source of like-minded, supportive people. I may drop an e-mail as well - to the University.

Hope you are well.....How's the business law class going??

12 posted on 04/29/2003 9:11:44 AM PDT by Lando Lincoln (God Bless the arsenal of liberty.)
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My letter:

To : shawm@cofc.edu
Cc : higdonl@cofc.edu,
POLISCI@cofc.edu,
cabotj@cofc.edu
Attchmnt:
Subject : regarding Earl Capps
----- Message Text -----

Dear Maxwell Shaw (clearly, not Maxwell Smart!)

As a professor, your invocation of bureacracy to stifle opponents of your
Marxist dialectec has a distinctly Stalinist and Maoist flavor.

On second thought... I shouldn't have said that, you'll probably take it
as a complement.

Your desire to force your own opinion on the ears and eyes of your school
clearly outweigh your value for intellectual freedom and open discourse.

You, on the other hand, should be at a minimum chastized for wasting
valuable and expensive computing resources to promote your particular
political agenda. The intellectual freedom argument won't work - the
large image files you distributed are far from what one would consider
scholarly work, and hiding your blatant politicizing behind such an
argument is intellectually dishonest.


(signed)
13 posted on 04/29/2003 9:26:52 AM PDT by adam_az
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To: Lando Lincoln
Its going fine...its just about over...one more week!
14 posted on 04/29/2003 9:30:30 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (Boycott Smuckers Jelly ! ! ! ! !)
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To: AJ Insider
Professor Shaw certainly sounds like the sort of pompous @ss found all too often on public university campuses.

The writing of Earl Capps, however, suggests a need for many more years at school:
"My one public email challenged Dr. Bower's publicly stated, and did not discuss you at all. I simply responded to what he been said,..."

"What he been said?"

15 posted on 04/29/2003 10:11:17 AM PDT by Redbob
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To: adam_az
Kudos for your cool email to the professor creep.
16 posted on 04/29/2003 10:16:21 AM PDT by Ciexyz
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To: AJ Insider
That's uncool.
17 posted on 04/29/2003 10:20:43 AM PDT by TankerKC (If we blame our parents, will our kids blame us?)
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To: Lando Lincoln
Professor Shaw

18 posted on 04/29/2003 10:32:07 AM PDT by AJ Insider
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To: AJ Insider
Shaw responded to this dissection of his political views by threatening to trump up charges of Honor Code violations against Capps: From: Shaw, Maxwell [mailto:ShawM@cofc.edu] Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 9:08 AM To: wecapps@edisto.cofc.edu Subject:

At first I penned a response to your e-mail copied below, thinking that debate of an issue was opened. However, when I found out that you did not have the courage to use the proper e-mail, I knew you were a hit and run kind of guy. So, I have penned a different kind of response that perhaps you might want to talk about:

To: Honors Board, Communications Department, Registrar

Subj: Honors Violations

It has come to my attendion that a student in the Communications Department is using an illegal college e-mail address to send hostile and personal attacks to faculty members. By using the @cofc.edu server, he is masking his student status and pretending to be a staff or faculty member. Because he is neither, and the e-mail is invalid, a response is not possible, aand poorly reflects on his character.

This issue screams of dishonesty and such should come before the Honors Board as a violation of the Honor Code. As a major in Communications, integrity should be one of the criteria for certification in that profession and at the very minimum should be reflected in any letters of recommendation that the department might issue on his behalf in the future. I would think that the college administration should be concerned that his use of a staff or faculty identity might bring a disfavorable image on the college and such practice should be looked into, not to preclude disciplinary action for fraud and/or misrepresentation in the name of the College of Charleston.

What do you think, Earl?

So, Shaw wants to play, does he? Can I play too?

United States Code, Title 18, U.S. Criminal Code
Section 241 - Conspiracy against rights:

If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or
If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured -

They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.

**************************************

United States Code, Title 18 U.S. Criminal Code
Section 242: - Deprivation of rights under color of law

Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or to different punishments, pains, or penalties, on account of such person being an alien, or by reason of his color, or race, than are prescribed for the punishment of citizens, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if bodily injury results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include the use, attempted use, or threatened use of a dangerous weapon, explosives, or fire, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death. Oh, president Higdon...one of your university's employees is committing felonies....

-archy-/-

19 posted on 04/29/2003 11:43:29 AM PDT by archy (Keep in mind that the milk of human kindness comes from a beast that is both cannibal and a vampire.)
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To: Redbob
Or how about this gem from Professor Shaw: To: Honors Board, Communications Department, Registrar Subj: Honors Violations It has come to my attendion that a student in the Communications Department is using an illegal college e-mail address to send hostile and personal attacks to faculty members.
20 posted on 04/29/2003 12:01:36 PM PDT by AJ Insider
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