Eastern Michigan University President John Fallon, your resignation, please
OK, readers, first a little background on why John Fallon MUST resign (and a mea culpa, I attended said school and am initmately familiar with it).
On December 13, 2006, Janice Dickinson a student at EMU was found dead in her dorm room. She lived in a huge complex of dormitories referred to as the Hill dorms, all ten stories in height. Ms. Dickinson lived in the aptly named Hill Hall. The first reports in an interview in the Ann Arbor News via the Medical Examiner of Washtenaw County SUSPECTED foul play. EMU went batshit and told anybody who would listen it was NOT NOW nor was it ever supected of being a murder. Students recently went on record as saying certain dorm authority figures hinted in fact it was a suicide. Jaclyn Armstrong, an EMU student who also lived in Hill Hall asked President Fallon "Couldn't we have at least been told we were in danger?'' Armstrong recalled being told the death seemed like a suicide. "To be told there was no danger to us - that was a direct lie''. In fact the university ITSELF said this:
The cause of death was undetermined but foul play was not suspected.
Imagine everyone's surprise (and your own if you lived in the dorms at EMU or have a child going there) when EMU announced February 23 that another EMU student had been arrested for Ms. Dickinson's MURDER. That's right, and they knew it all from the beginning.
An EMU student was free to walk around campus among other students under suspicion of being a cold blooded RAPIST and MURDERER. Wow, will they put that in the brochure for prospective students?
We value your safety here but ONLY to a point
Orange Amir Taylor III was a suspect almost IMMEDIATELY as he was seen entering the dorm at about 4am that morning and then he was on camera again leaving the dorm around 6am, the period in which the autopsy said Ms. Dickinson died. They knew it IMMEDIATELY and did NOTHING to warn the general campus population.
According to Eastern Michigan University THIS does not hint at foul play:
When police entered Dickinson's room, they found her lying on a blanket on the floor - naked from the waist down and with a pillow over her face, the transcript said. EMU Lt. Jeff Nesmith noted there was evidence of sexual assault, including the way her body was positioned.
Mr. Fallon, you might be able to understand the incredible indignity SOME in the EMU community might just have. You'll recall that former Theta Chi President John Norman Collins was an EMU student as were some of his victims. The death of Laura McBride remains unsolved to this day.
All that President Fallon can muster is a deflection of ANY KIND of accountability and hoping to pass this all off. Fallon said EMU will conduct on how it handled the release of information in the wake of Dickinson's death.
How the hell do you sleep at night Mr. Fallon? How do you put some thousands of student in HARM'S WAY and then try to whitewash this?
Your RESIGNATION, please. You are clearly unfit and unable to do the job a University President is expected to do.
On December 13, 2006, Janice Dickinson a student at EMU was found dead in her dorm room. She lived in a huge complex of dormitories referred to as the Hill dorms, all ten stories in height. Ms. Dickinson lived in the aptly named Hill Hall. The first reports in an interview in the Ann Arbor News via the Medical Examiner of Washtenaw County SUSPECTED foul play. EMU went batshit and told anybody who would listen it was NOT NOW nor was it ever supected of being a murder. Students recently went on record as saying certain dorm authority figures hinted in fact it was a suicide. Jaclyn Armstrong, an EMU student who also lived in Hill Hall asked President Fallon "Couldn't we have at least been told we were in danger?'' Armstrong recalled being told the death seemed like a suicide. "To be told there was no danger to us - that was a direct lie''. In fact the university ITSELF said this:
The cause of death was undetermined but foul play was not suspected.
Imagine everyone's surprise (and your own if you lived in the dorms at EMU or have a child going there) when EMU announced February 23 that another EMU student had been arrested for Ms. Dickinson's MURDER. That's right, and they knew it all from the beginning.
An EMU student was free to walk around campus among other students under suspicion of being a cold blooded RAPIST and MURDERER. Wow, will they put that in the brochure for prospective students?
We value your safety here but ONLY to a point
Orange Amir Taylor III was a suspect almost IMMEDIATELY as he was seen entering the dorm at about 4am that morning and then he was on camera again leaving the dorm around 6am, the period in which the autopsy said Ms. Dickinson died. They knew it IMMEDIATELY and did NOTHING to warn the general campus population.
According to Eastern Michigan University THIS does not hint at foul play:
When police entered Dickinson's room, they found her lying on a blanket on the floor - naked from the waist down and with a pillow over her face, the transcript said. EMU Lt. Jeff Nesmith noted there was evidence of sexual assault, including the way her body was positioned.
Mr. Fallon, you might be able to understand the incredible indignity SOME in the EMU community might just have. You'll recall that former Theta Chi President John Norman Collins was an EMU student as were some of his victims. The death of Laura McBride remains unsolved to this day.
All that President Fallon can muster is a deflection of ANY KIND of accountability and hoping to pass this all off. Fallon said EMU will conduct on how it handled the release of information in the wake of Dickinson's death.
How the hell do you sleep at night Mr. Fallon? How do you put some thousands of student in HARM'S WAY and then try to whitewash this?
Your RESIGNATION, please. You are clearly unfit and unable to do the job a University President is expected to do.
Labels: Eastern Michigan University, John Fallon, Laura Dickinson, murder, rape
posted by Witch King of Angmar at 11:09 AM
2 Comments:
He should resign. This in no way protects students. They are his first priority I think.
Thank you for caring sir. If the EMU Administration won't protect us or care the only hope we have are alumi like yourself able to make a stink.
I'm a long time reader of your blog and enjoy it very much.
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