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Michael Ejercito <mejercit@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Anyone care to guess the motive?
I'll guess. It was another black on white rape/murder. With a name like
"Orange" Taylor, ya just expect the suspect was colored (pun intended).
Now he be wearin' orange, too. Jailhouse orange.
Ping Way Back Jack: what are those rape stats by race again?
Imam
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> http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/16/university.dismissal.ap/index.html
>
> University president fired after alleged rape cover-up
>
> * Story Highlights
> * School officials had ruled out foul play in rape and killing of
> a student
> * Laura Dickinson's body was discovered in her dorm room last
> December
> * Another student was arrested in February and is awaiting trial
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> YPSILANTI, Michigan (AP) -- Three Eastern Michigan University
> administrators, including the president, have been forced out, months
> after top school officials were accused of covering up the rape and
> slaying of a student by publicly ruling out foul play.
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> John Fallon, shown in a 2005 photo, was dismissed as president of
> Eastern Michigan University on Sunday.
>
> President John Fallon was fired, and Vice President of Student Affairs
> Jim Vick and Public Safety Director Cindy Hall lost their jobs at the
> 23,500-student public university, the chairman of the school's
> governing board said Monday.
>
> Board of Regents Chairman Thomas Sidlik also said the board would put
> a letter of discipline in the file of university attorney Kenneth
> McKanders.
>
> The body of the slain student, Laura Dickinson, 22, was discovered
> December 15 in her dorm room. At the time, university officials told
> her parents and the media that she died of asphyxiation but that there
> was no sign of foul play, despite evidence to the contrary.
>
> It was not until another Eastern student, Orange Taylor III, was
> arrested in late February and charged with murder that her family and
> students learned she had been raped and killed. Taylor has pleaded not
> guilty to murder and criminal sexual conduct charges in Dickinson's
> death, and is scheduled for trial Oct. 15.
>
> An independent law firm investigation and U.S. Department of
> Educationreport both found that the university violated the federal
> Clery Act, which requires colleges and universities to disclose campus
> security information.
>
> Many in the administration were accused of covering up the truth and
> endangering students to protect the school's image, which has been
> marred in recent years by tensions with faculty, students and the
> community.
>
> Board member James Stapleton said it became clear from conversations
> with Fallon and his attorney that Fallon was planning to take action
> during Monday's scheduled board meeting that would have damaged the
> university. As a result, the board unanimously voted to fire him.
>
> Neither Stapleton nor other regents would elaborate on what he said
> Fallon was planning.
>
> Fallon's secretary did not know how he could be reached for further
> comment. Fallon told the Ann Arbor News that a termination letter
> indicated his office had been secured and that arrangements would be
> made for him to retrieve personal items. He told the newspaper he was
> upset with how the board handled his firing.
>
> "As a citizen, I am disappointed in this hastily called meeting,
> without any opportunity to be present or to respond," Fallon told the
> paper. "I have a story to tell and intend to tell it."
>
> Messages left by The Associated Press at a telephone listing for the
> official president's residence at Eastern Michigan and by e-mail were
> not immediately returned.
>
> A gate prevented access to the front door of the residence Monday
> afternoon. A call placed to the residence from a telephone near the
> gate went unanswered.
>
> Fallon has 60 days to leave the property, board members said.
>
> Fallon's salary was $225,000 a year. His contract was to run until
> July 2010, according to university spokesman Ward Mullens. According
> to the terms of Fallon's contract, he would be paid the equivalent of
> one year's base salary if the board fired him.
>
> Vick, who has been on paid administrative leave since March, told the
> News: "My first choice was to come back. But you don't always get your
> first choice."
>
> The board appointed Provost Donald Loppnow as executive vice
> president. In that dual role, Loppnow will serve as the school's chief
> executive until an interim president is selected.
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>
> Robert Dickinson, the slain woman's father, said anybody implicated in
> the federal report "should probably expect the same" fate as Fallon.
> Video Watch why the victim's parents think officials covered up the
> truth »
>
> "I fire my baristas if they do wrong," said Dickinson, who owns a
> coffee house in the western Michigan community of Hastings. "The board
> of this school should do whatever they need to do."
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