A. The Allegation of Assassination Plot

(The word 'assassination' was actually used in court.)

After all, who is telling the truth?

Me: I said I wouldn't do it every time Mr. Hartigan asked me to hurt Mr. Kondonassis. Mr. Hartigan said to me on the phone that Mr. Dunne was after me. I didn't know until I went to court that there was a plot to kill several people at OU. It is quite obvious that the source of information about the alleged assassination plot is Mr. Hartigan. The self-identified OUPD sergeant repeatedly mentioned his name.

Mr. Hartigan: "He (Mr.Dunne), the Bantam and Old Nasty (Dr. Reed?) are trying to get me detenured because I would not testify against you."

Mr. Dunne: "Here is what happened. (1) A faculty member came into my office in mid January and claimed that a former student was making death threats toward faculty in the department. I informed a faculty member of the seriousness of the allegations and that I was required to forward the information to OU administrators. I forwarded the information to OU academic officials. (2) The same faculty member came into my office two days later and said that he had new conversations with the student and that the student was making additional threats. These threats were described as very specific harmful threats against individual faculty members with the element of a plan (day, weapon, etc). I contacted OU administrators again and relayed the information the faculty member told me. Clearly, I was very concerned for the safety of my faculty and I told OU administrators as such. (3) Moreover, the faculty member recounted the allegations to numerous faculty members in the department. Some of these faculty memebers that heard the allegations also requested that I report these allegations to OU administrators. I was clearly not the only person to hear these allegations. To be sure, I made it clear to OU administrators that I personally had no contact with the student for almost 8 months and that the allegations were made by another faculty member. (4) As chair of the department, it is simply responsibility to report such a threat to OU administration. It would be the same for any administrator of any type of organization. (5) The statement that I called the FBI is simply not true. I spoke w/ OU academic officials and later was interviewed by OU police. I have had no contact w/ any fedearl authorities over this matter. (6) I am quite saddened by the outcome of this situation. I feel bad for the student and the faculty members that became involved in the matter. One would think such an event an impossible. In no way, shape or form was "this relationship." There was nothing to be retaliatory about. I had not seen that student in 8 months. However, I am quite sorry that events turned out like they did. It is one of my true disappointments as chair. (7) Finally, for the record, I have also cc'd this message to a member that was completely uninvolved in this matter."

Dr. Reed: "Nobody's detenuring anybody. But you should know that Jim Hartigan told many members of this faculty that you were dangerous and had made death threats." "Jim Hartigan told numerous people in the department that you were planning to come to the department to kill faculty. If I recall correctly, he told Dunne, Sutter, Kosmopoulou, and Robin Grier, perhaps others. People were pretty scared..."

1. Did Mr. Hartigan go forward and report the assassinaton plot to the police? If he had, he would have got caught and ended up in jail for lying to the authorities. He wasn't that stupid after all.

2. Mr. Hartigan says in his e-mail that he was glad I got out of the jail. That's an odd comment for a person who tried to send me to jail.

3. The allegation of a Japanese student asking a Japanese professor to acquire a gun sounds too fishy to be true. Who is that professor, anyway? Ask Mr. Dunne and/or Mr. Hartigan who that is. The one who listened to him is as stupid as the one who made that allegation.

4. By the way, who died on the scheduled day of the alleged assassination plot? I don't know which Tuesday they are talking about. I repeat: They know more than I do about the assassination plot.

5. Mr. Hartigan seems to be the one who started all these allegations. Then he says his best buddy, Mr. Dunne, and Dr. Reed are trying to fire him. And he was protecting me from them? He must be awfully confused.

6. I must be happy because the Department is in turmoil? ??? That's another sign of confusion.

7. By the way, why has the incompleted grade been unchanged unlike the promise made by Mr. Dunne in his e-mail of May 26, 2001? His manipulative personality has now been revealed.

G. At Last

xxxxxI wish that Mr. Dunne carefully had thought about what if, what if Mr. Kondonassis did indeed allow me to find a different person to work with and what if Mr. Hartigan was lying about the assassination plot. In fact, I ended up in jail, which makes Mr. Dunne as guilty as and as low as Mr. Hartigan. There is evidence, indeed, that Mr. Kondonassis did, in fact, allowed me to find a different professor to work with. But Mr. Dunne kept denying this possibility with no proof of his own. Unless he is mentally retarded, Mr. Dunne must have known that Mr. Hartigan's allegations were fishy or they together made them up.