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To: Ilaine who wrote (48335)	9/30/2002 3:36:27 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

If you would please clarify your position, are you saying that, if you had the power, you would shut down the Campus Watch website? No, because that goes into the legalities which, as I said to Bill, I genuinely don't know what has happened to those issues in the last several decades of cases and changes in the federal courts. 1. I think it is very inhumane to use those websites, specifically the dossier aspect, to target faculty members in this climate with imputations of anit-Americanism. To say again, it only infuriates unbalanced folk. And, since I don't assume Pipes is unintellligent, I assume he knows this. He should not have done that. But, if I read his personality from his work, always a dangerous proposition, he is a very unbending sort. Let me put it another way; he's a person on a mission. Ends over means kind of guy. 2. The idea that campuses should be open to view in which anyone who wishes can "monitor" classes in some generic way is a debatable proposition. The present climate is not the one in which that should or could be done. But, question, is there a better climate and would it be possible/wise in such circumstances? Certainly. I think conditions would need to be established so classes were not disrupted; so faculty could be protected against harassment; etc. But I'm not representative in this respect. I'm on public record at my previous institution as favoring open classrooms so long as the class was not disrupted.