Vanderbilt's greatest weapon would be to say I left after being disciplined. So I contend that I was never disciplined, because I left before this letter from the dean, Richard McCarty.
One could ask if McCarty followed a procedure: Can he unilaterally do what he says he did in the letter? Mustn't a committee make that decision? And can the individual concerned not appeal? (Not that this is relevant to me: see previous paragraph.)
The best part is to note that he talks about the PURPORTED debate about the Klan and the threats I CLAIM have been made against me, when, as he is writing this letter (spring 2005), the Confederate Memorial Hall case is being tried, and the Chancellor of Vanderbilt, Gordon Gee, wrote in 2005 (the same year) that he too received threats (reported in the Tennessean newspaper in 2003). I had also reported I'd received threats to the police, the Tennessean, and the Vanderbilt student newspaper, the Hustler, in 2002. I have learned via the grapevine that McCarty too had received threats.
