[Vision2020] And the Hits Just keep On Coming . . .

[g. crabtree]

I believe that Dr. Harkins made it extremely clear that he had no intention 
of taking the matter any further then simply pointing out the error of your 
ways. Oh, and for the record, I thought the issue was your 
cribbing/paraphrasing a Kos/Huffington piece and insinuating that you had 
generated it from primary sources rather than simply paraphrasing a 
secondary source. After all the public post (not private e-mail) of yours 
that kicked off this debate began:

 "So let's just move past all the secondary sources and take a look at 
primary sources, shall we?"

 Followed by the cribbed piece. No citations and certainly a strong 
implication that the research into the primary sources was yours. Hardly 
jibes with the fairy tale characterization you"self reported" to whomever.

g
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andreas Schou" <ophite at gmail.com>
To: "Jeff Harkins" <jeffh at moscow.com>
Cc: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] And the Hits Just keep On Coming . . .


> Incidentally, I did actually do a self-report, as suggested. I
> explained the situation as follows: I am accused of paraphrasing a
> secondary source in a private email. I think that's a fair summation
> of what I'm accused of -- right? In any case, the response I received
> used the word "bizarre." This corresponds fairly well with what I
> thought to begin with*.
>
> The issue is, as far as I'm concerned, settled. Any threatened report
> -- and I don't think threat was explicit so much as clearly replied --
> that Dr. Harkins could've made would, as I suspected, have no effect.
> While I'm all warm and fuzzy about the Viz's academics rushing to my
> defense, his particular threat no more effect than if he had
> threatened to set his army of killer bees on me or disintegrate my car
> with his ray gun.
>
> He doesn't have an army of killer bees, he doesn't have a ray gun, and
> as a professor emeritus, he is entitled to the university's thanks and
> a pension, not to dictate the policies of the law school. Even taking
> the most uncharitable view of what Dr. Harkins said, he was making
> threats he had no means of carrying out. Can we chalk this up to an
> overheated political argument and move on?
>
> -- ACS
>
> * I don't think the Dean of Students would appreciate me interposing
> himself between myself and my detractors. However, in the interest of
> getting this whole meta-discussion ended, anyone who disputes my
> characterization of my actions can make a less charitable report at
> richard at uidaho.edu.
>
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