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CMU bans videotaping, again, and bans student from expulsion hearing
Midland Daily News ^ | February 28, 2008 | Nick Persons

Posted on 02/28/2008 10:24:40 AM PST by michiganguy

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This is unbelievable.
1 posted on 02/28/2008 10:24:49 AM PST by michiganguy
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To: michiganguy

Here is a story on the original videotaping ban, struck down by the ACLU: http://www.themorningsun.com/stories/112807/loc_aclu.shtml


2 posted on 02/28/2008 10:26:21 AM PST by michiganguy
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To: michiganguy; EarthBound

So, they can video a private hearing... but he can’t?... and he’s *in* it?...


3 posted on 02/28/2008 10:29:24 AM PST by MacDorcha (Arm yourself!)
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To: michiganguy
Mr. Lennox clearly needs a good lawyer.
And he needs one of these:

The ballpoint pen contains the camera!

4 posted on 02/28/2008 10:37:50 AM PST by Redbob (WWJBD: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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To: michiganguy
"It is not a public hearing," he said. "If a student should come in with a camera they will be told to shut it off."

So the university has no one taking minutes, right? The meeting is "off the record". No?

5 posted on 02/28/2008 10:38:45 AM PST by weegee (Those who surrender personal liberty to lower global temperatures will receive neither.)
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To: michiganguy

It is hard to believe. He should simply record it (at least audio) and not say anything. (if he can sneak in a hidden camera, too, so much the better.)


6 posted on 02/28/2008 10:38:58 AM PST by pogo101
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To: michiganguy
There's a good reason to not have a camera there. Cameras frighten the kangaroo at this kangaroo court.
7 posted on 02/28/2008 10:49:29 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Rattenschadenfreude: joy at a Democrat's pain, especially Hillary's pain caused by Obama.)
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To: pogo101
The university is doing nothing more than trying to intimidate a student who called out the Professor.

On the other hand I do not see why the prof should give up his chair to run for congress. No one is required to give up the current employment to run for public office that I am aware.

8 posted on 02/28/2008 10:50:17 AM PST by 7mmMag@LeftCoast (The DNC and Rino's: they put the CON into congress everyday.)
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To: weegee

the school tapes these things and allows people to purchase the tapes. Individuals are not allowed to tape though. That is standard procedure here.
I am from the area, and this guy is a nut. They have already wasted to much time on him IMHO.


9 posted on 02/28/2008 10:58:14 AM PST by bigred41
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Except there’s something called the Hatch Act, and he did sign a contract with the school for three years.

We need to help this kid. Call the school, find a lawyer ... something.


10 posted on 02/28/2008 10:59:35 AM PST by michiganguy
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Would they have acted the same way if a left-wing student clashed with a professor who intended to run for Congress as a Republican?

Lennox could go about 125 miles south to a more congenial atmosphere--Hillsdale College (but he may not have the money or the grade point average to go there).

11 posted on 02/28/2008 11:04:33 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: michiganguy
"They don't have any authority to do that," he said. "I really think the school's going to find themselves in a difficult legal position."

He's right. It's a public university, and the proceedings are being held at taxpayer expense. I hope this kid gets a really aggressive lawyer to sue their butts off.

12 posted on 02/28/2008 11:05:45 AM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner ("We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!"--Duncan Hunter)
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And you are certain that the purchased tape isn’t edited? Doesn’t have “accidentally” erased portions?

IIRC, even White House tapes of Oval Office meetings sometimes “accidentally” end up missing, edited, or erased, and we’re supposed to trust Lib academics?


13 posted on 02/28/2008 11:07:47 AM PST by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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I did a Google search and it looks like his e-mail is studentsagainstgarypeters@gmail.com. He maintains a web site: http://petersreport.blogspot.com. Will someone step up to the plate and help this kid? I suspect he doesn’t have the cash to pay for a lawyer and that’s why he hasn’t sued yet.


14 posted on 02/28/2008 11:11:38 AM PST by michiganguy
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To: michiganguy

Not sure where I’d stand on this one but if they expel him they better refund his $$.


15 posted on 02/28/2008 11:16:21 AM PST by Centurion2000 (su - | chown -740 us ./base | kill -9 | cd / | rm -r)
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To: bigred41

The point of making your own tape is to ensure that the “official” tape is kept honest and without “redactions”. Similarly, the university tape is their record of what happened, and keeps HIM honest about not editing his version


16 posted on 02/28/2008 11:16:46 AM PST by PapaBear3625
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To: michiganguy

actually he needs to go to court now before the next hearing for injuctive relief. This is a state school so they are limited in their ability to be totalitarian. (government in the open and all that)

seems the decision was already made and the refusal to “go on the record” is beyond the pale.

What if he hired a court reporter to type a verbatim transcription of all the events there? would they have banned that? Even the USSC uses transcription.


17 posted on 02/28/2008 11:17:54 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: KarlInOhio

ok no camera, how about a professional court reporter?


18 posted on 02/28/2008 11:19:00 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: michiganguy
Except there’s something called the Hatch Act, and he did sign a contract with the school for three years.

The Hatch Act only applies to Federal employees

A stronger argument might be that, by allowing this professor to continue collecting his salary while campaigning instead of teaching, the college is effectively making an unreported campaign contribution

19 posted on 02/28/2008 11:20:57 AM PST by PapaBear3625
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To: michiganguy

I’m not sure how or if the Hatch Act applies.


20 posted on 02/28/2008 11:31:20 AM PST by 7mmMag@LeftCoast (The DNC and Rino's: they put the CON into congress everyday.)
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