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Pipe-puffing alum kicked off campus
By Jason Sanchez
STAFF WRITER
Four years ago alumnus Louis Rothbard couldn't bring hinself
to return to New Orleans
and Tulane. Now he is being forced to leave, following
complaints by students to security.
Rothbard, a 1974 Freeman graduate, returned to campus after a
Texas court dissolved
his common law marriage. After his return a little more than a
year ago, Rothbard spent his
time memorizing poetry in the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library
and "talking to serious
students" on the benches near the U.C. quad.
Rothbard's life on campus came to an end after Director of
Security Kenneth
Dupaquier was approached by a student marshall who claimed that
Louis "made a pass"
at a female friend of his.
"We asked this person to come forward and file a complaint,"
Dupaquier said, "and
then we went to the student affairs office with it."
Assistant Dean for Student Life Greg Goodwin reviewed the
claim. "We receive
copies of all complaints filed with security," Goodwin said.
"In this case there were numerous complaints filed against
Mr. Rothbard," Goodwin
said. "A number of people reviewed this material before it was
decided that his behavior was
not in keeping with the people who visit our campus."
The complaint was jointly forwarded by security and student
affairs to Assistant
General Counsel Linus Coignet.
"He has been banned from campus," Coignet said. "It is a
private matter between
the university and Mr. Rothbard. If he wants to disclose any
information about the matter,
then it's up to him."
Although students have been removed from campus after security
complaints, this was
the first alum Coignet could recall being banned from campus.
Rothbard was not allowed to initiate any defense for himself. He
was handed a letter
from Goodwin stating that he had been "excluded permanently from the
Tulane campus and
from all Tulane-sponsored events" because of "serious
misconduct...that endangers Tulane
students."
If Rothbard returns to campus he is subject to arrest by Tulane
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police officers for trespassing on private property.
"Neither Linus Coignet nor Goodwin told me what I was charged with,"
Rothbard said.
"I have never done any harm. These allegations are lies or are by
people who don't like me
and have been blown out of proportion.
"I have never done anything illegal or harmful to any student."
Rothbard has written a letter of response. In the letter, Rothbard
says, "Tulane
University Administration's attitude was expressed to me by Mr. Linus
Coignet. It is biased,
I feel, since it presumes, due merely to the fact that the derogatory
reports made about me were
several, that there must be some substantial problem with
me.... Furthermore, the attitude of the
Administration seems manipulative, in the sense that its position on
my exclusion from campus
serves to dictate, even to those students open to broad-minded
pursuit of conversation and
camaraderie, specifically which individuals are suitable
therefore. and which others are
somehow unworthy.
"I do not believe it is the proper function of the administrative
body of any university
to set itself up as a censor or an adjudicator of which people
students may associate with and
which they may not."
Rothbard said he will give the letter, along with petitions for his
return to campus, to his
friends in the student body.
He has also set up a hot-line number, (504) 889-8744.
Goodwin said there is no way Louis can return to campus unless the
decision is
overturned by a future administration.
"Frequently loiterers are escorted off campus and asked not to come
back," Goodwin
said. "This generally happens with people that have no affiliation
with the university.
"Certainly we want alumni participation on campus. However we also
expect some
standards of conduct from them."
Goodwin added there was generally no hearing in these matters. He
and Coignet
refused to say what Rothbard's alleged violations were or who filed
the complaints.
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