CMU Attempting to Expel Dennis Lennox for Being An Activist Conservative
By Erick Posted in 2008 — Comments (11) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
First University professors decided Dennis Lennox is mentally unstable and a potential "campus shooter" because of his aggressive, in your face tactics against a liberal college professor running for Congress. Dennis is videotaping the professor's every move and has filed open records requests for the professor's emails from the University system to see if the professor is using university resources to campaign.
The University dean who got the request eventually accepted it, but only after trying to grab Dennis's camera out of his hands and break it.
Then the University passed a campus wide ban on publicly videotaping anyone in public areas on campus.
The ACLU struck back against the University, forcing the University to stand down from the videotaping ban.
Now?
Now the University has instituted expulsion proceedings against Dennis. Why? Because Dennis was passing out fliers against the Congressional Candidate/Professor. An unknown person going behind Dennis to throw away his fliers asked Dennis for his name and information (sounds rather East German, doesn't it?). Dennis asked the unknown person for the same information. Neither would yield first.
It turns out the unknown person is a university official and now the university says Dennis violated the student code by failing to give his information, along with two other charges.
You can contact President Michael Rao at CMU by calling 989-774-4000. You might want to tell him these Gestapo tactics have no place in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
By the way, you can check out Dennis's blog about Gary Peters, the professor, here.
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is an alumni of CMU and he is on the case, rallying other alumni and they are contacting the college.
More later....
for huge amounts of money, generate a lot of publicity. Why be timid on this thing? It's just the Constitution being twisted beyond recognition.
Surely there are a few conservative lawyers, or heck, even liberal lawyers looking for a paycheck, who could handle this thing.
Side note: If what Erick is reporting is true, and I have no reason to believe it isn't, it's a foregone conclusion that the General Counsel for CMU is already well aware of this story and is already involved at some level. I hope Dennis and his supporters realize that before actions like this are taken, University Consel is generally consulted as to the best course of action through which they can proceed and by which expulsion procedures can be started.
That means that Mr. Lennox has crossed over from the realm of student activist into a domain where the heavy breathers are thinking seriously about how to get rid of him as quickly as possible, with the least damage done to the University's reputation, and as quietly as possible.
And it means that if all this is true, Mr. Lennox will need a good lawyer and a legal defense fund with which to fight the Administration at CMU, and he needs to know people are on his side.
If RedState/HinzSight sets up a legal defense fund, I will be happy to donate to it. But from this moment on, based on past experience my take on this is that Mr. Lennox has crossed an important threshold and he's going to need our help if he is to defend himself comprehensively.
A legal defense fund is being setup. If you'd like to help, please contact us at studentsagainstgarypeters@gmail.com.
I don't know whether that's the kind of defense fund I'm talking about. I am talking about a defense fund for the student, Dennis Lennox. So far I haven't heard of one.
And I do know the address is correct, but a legal defense fund for the defendant should probably be set up in his name. The case of Lennox's advocacy is going be decided separately from whether or not he broke the rules at CMU. At this point I think his legal defense fund has virtually nothing to do with the professor.
We stop the lefties this time. We learn how to do it and shove it in their faces.
We are not second class citizens. The lefty twits misinterpret our tolerance and civillity, traits they know nothing about, for weakness.
It is time for this to stop.
Civil rights lawsuits, defamation lawsuits, public scrutiny until the hacks and thugs behind this squeal 'Uncle!'.
I'm a CMU alum (B.S. in Political Science 1982). It isn't often that Central Michigan gets in the news; occasionally, the basketball team gets into the NCAA tournament or the football team plays in a bowl game (they're playing for the MAC title Saturday), but this isn't good.
The funny thing about this case is that Professor Peters really doesn't need to be harassed. The 4th district, with Midland and Mount Pleasant as its core in the middle of the Lower Peninsula, is a solidly red district in which CMU is about the most liberal item; other than a six-year stint from 79-84, Republicans have held this seat since WWII.
Dave Camp has been the congressman since 1991, and is likely congressman for life barring some sort of Larry Craig moment; he's generically conservative and competent, but not so much so that he'll get tabbed to run for the Senate or Governor.
If Peters does get the nomination, he'll be 65-35 road kill as token opposition in a Republican seat.
Sounds like standard operating procedure when a University Administration wants to squelch a problem: the surest basis on which to do that is to start with the campus code as pretext for expulsion.
I second, and third, Erick's call for action to CMU President Michael Rao -- before these people squash this kid like a bug. If he doesn't already have one, he needs a lawyer, right now.