The closer it gets to Stringer leaving for one of the most prestigious public universities in the country, the harder it gets for the gang that can't shoot straight.

By the way, lG, go read the transcripts.  They are readily available.

If Stringer had been guilty of any violation of law, he would have been prosecuted. But since we are on this subject, do you therefore think that Shelby Thames should also be dismissed, since he authorized---ordered---the deans to break federal and state law when he told them to refuse to cooperate with requests for information under the FOI laws?

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Originally posted by: little GIANT
"Any teacher who breaks the law should be dismissed. Getting rid of him was a courageous decision. There is a little thing out there called the Privacy Act that he was in clear violation of. Personally, I think he got off easy. He allowed people to think he was a chair of a department who was conducting an employment background check on an instructor who applied for a position within the department. Dvorak never applied, and she never gave him permission to use her social security number to investigate her employment background. There is no doubt in my mind he should have been terminated. He got insulted because he could not give a good friend tenure like he wanted to, so he took it upon himself to attack the administration in any way possible. His subesquent and correct termination led to a bitter and self-serving campaign to have President Thames removed. This is the way this whole mess started.  "

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In my legal experience, when someone uses the term "Privacy Act", they are referring to the federal Privacy Act.  (As an aside, FOIA typically refers to the federal Freedom of Information Act as opposed to the Mississippi Open Records Act but people do tend to say they submitted a "FOIA" request no matter which statute serves as the basis for the request.)  I am not aware of Mississippi having a statute with the shortened title "Privacy Act" although I believe that Mississippi does have criminal statutes that deal with the misuse of personal information.  I am not a Mississippi lawyer, but from what I have been told by colleagues and from looking at the applicable statute briefly, it is hard to see how Dr. Stringer's conduct implicated any of the Mississippi laws either.

As other posters have stated, this is a dead issue.  It seems as though SFT promoted the criminal activity idea to discredit GS and FG and strengthen his position publically before all of the facts were known, and SFT's supporters simply parrot the notion without any actual knowledge of the law (federal or Mississippi). 

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Originally posted by: by yea right again
" "If Stringer had been guilty of any violation of law, he would have been prosecuted." the real reason civil charges were not brought forward is because the vice president cares more about this university than any of you. as soon as the president presented his evidence at the hearings, stringer and glamser tucked in their tail and headed for the high road. the fact that stringer got a job somewhere else is perfect proof why the tenure system needs be reformed. all you faculty stick together and watch each other's backs. you dont care about usm and you never will. "

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