The following was posted on another thread, and relates to the suggestion Jameela is making. A concerted effort is needed to involve those people in town who are sitting on their hands while their faculty "friends" are being hammered by the likes of this Ramsay guy. If it takes printing out a letter like Ramsay's and handing it to your townie friend and saying, "Help me on this! Write a letter in my favor!" so be it. There's no reason those who know us and take our money and pray beside us in church shouldn't come to our aid here.


FROM PREVIOUS THREAD:

"I'm waiting to see whether anybody other than regular faculty members--those supposedly "good, decent" townies who take faculty members' money in their places of business, sit beside them in church, joke with them at civic club meetings, sell them insurance and burial plots, and treat their wounds and heal their diseases--will have the simple decency for once to reply to this letter and object to having their clients and "friends" compared to "inmates." Your biggest obstacle to winning the battle is now and always has been the culpable passivity of the vast majority of "good" people in Hattiesburg. During this entire sordid saga, when Shelboo was ambushing the deans, humiliating G&S, insulting the faculty senate, and trashing every principle of decency and academic integrity there was, have you ever seen ONE letter from a priest or pastor or doctor (Dr. Hartwig excepted) or banker protesting that his/ her parishioners or patients or clients or customers were not incompetents or criminals or in any way deserving of the stupid and brutal treatment to which they had been subjected? When you think about this deafening silence, you have to conclude that Hattiesburg doesn't deserve a good university."