nature of my presence there. I would
add, as a footnote to Shultz, that I would certainly have no interest in
trading places with him. I hope you will give particular attention
to the Quotes From The Quad comment of Erica White. This
young lady must be rather precocious, as her answer is right on the
mark. "Isn't that what college is about?" she asks. Apparently
Dr. Kelly and several of his associates don't think so. In his
"tolerance" editorial, James Hartman provides the kind of arm's length,
unbiased analysis one might expect from an independent observer with a
realistic attitude, reasonably good judgment, and a reverence for the
freedoms America stands for. Hartman states, "It is deeply
disturbing if a man, just for being different, was forced to
leave....". Intolerance doesn't seem to disturb Dr.
Kelly.
In the "Alumnus replies...." continuation of
the Jason Sanchez article, Assistant Dean Goodwin makes a suggestive
remark about loiterers. A university campus is a place where
intellectual pursuits are undertaken. If Goodwin confuses the
memorization and recitation of poetry and the hearty philosophical
interchange I engaged in with whatever serious students I could find on
campus, whenever I could find them, intellectual pursuits all, with
loitering, he is, at best, rather unobservant. He goes on to assert,
"Certainly we want alumni participation on campus; however we also expect
some standards of conduct from them." I hope that some interested
Tulane affiliate will be kind enough to pass the word to Assistant Dean
Goodwin that I am prepared to answer for and to defend my conduct in all
of its particulars and that I hope Mr. Goodwin will attend himself to his
own conduct, and refrain from commenting gratuitously upon the conduct of
others. If Mr. Goodwin has some specific complaint about my conduct
he would like to bring forth, I would encourage him to do so, so that I
might be afforded the opportunity of setting the record straight. In
the absence of such a specific complaint, I would urge Mr. Goodwin to say
nothing at all on the topic, since his words, as quoted by the Hullabaloo,
make him sound a bit like a bigot. Mr. Goodwin does not know
me. The only time I ever spoke to Mr. Goodwin was after my exclusion
from campus. I asked him if he would allow me to tell the story from
my side. His reply, "No."
Earlier in the Sanchez article it is alleged
that I "made a pass" at a female friend of a student marshall, and that
she was asked (that's right, ACTUALLY SOLICITED by the Kelly
administration's own security people, if the article is accurate on this
point) to file, you guessed it, another one of those "complaints to Tulane
Security." A pass? Rather a vague accusation, I think.
Does this mean I passed her in a corridor? My point is that such an
accusation is worse than meaningless. It conveys negative images
about the accused
