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#1) I would be surprised...<br>
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#2) That is one hell of a question!<br>
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Dave<br>
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On 09/13/2011 08:44 AM, Art Deco wrote:
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="2">This article raises several
issues, but I'll limit this post to only two.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="2">1. This should not be taken as
accusatory, but I wonder if the UI decision to use rent-a-cops
has reduced in an unhealthy/undesirable manner some
communication with the MPD. If the MPD had been as closely
involved with the UI before the rent-a-cops and thus be better
informed by the UI, might this matter been handled a bit
differently?</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="2">2. Allegedly Benoit asked that
law enforcement not be involved when she made her complaint.
If so, when does the level of a threat to an individual and/or
other students/staff/faculty become serious enough to
warrant the UI overriding such a request?</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="2">w.</font></div>
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<div style=""><b>From:</b> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
title="mailto:thansen@moscow.com
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href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">Tom Hansen</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 13, 2011 5:26 AM</div>
<div><b>To:</b> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
title="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com
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href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">Moscow Vision 2020</a>
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<div><b>Subject:</b> [Vision2020] Benoit told UI of fears 2
months before she was killed</div>
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<div>UI's inaction, months before student's murder, MUST be held
to account. At a minimum UI is guilty of the wrongful death of
Kathryn Benoit.</div>
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<div>Courtesy of today's (September 13, 2011) Spokesman-Review.</div>
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<h1 style="padding: 0px; line-height: 1.2;
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10px; outline-width: 0px; font-family:
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font-size: 28px; vertical-align: baseline;
font-weight: bold;">Benoit told UI of fears 2
months before she was killed</h1>
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<p style="padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; overflow:
visible ! important; background-color: transparent;
margin: 0px 0px 21px; outline-width: 0px; font-family:
Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; vertical-align:
baseline;">More than two months before her death,
Kathryn “Katy” Benoit told an official at the
University of Idaho that she was frightened by her
professor, who carried weapons “everywhere, including
to campus,” and that she also worried about the safety
of fellow students.</p>
<p style="padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; overflow:
visible ! important; background-color: transparent;
margin: 0px 0px 21px; outline-width: 0px; font-family:
Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; vertical-align:
baseline;">Benoit, 22, was killed on Aug. 22 by
Ernesto Bustamante, with whom she had an intimate
relationship. The assistant professor then killed
himself in a Moscow hotel room.</p>
<p style="padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; overflow:
visible ! important; background-color: transparent;
margin: 0px 0px 21px; outline-width: 0px; font-family:
Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; vertical-align:
baseline;">Previously unreported details of Benoit’s
June 12 complaint to the university were revealed in
the graduate student’s letter to Carmen Suarez, of the
Office of Human Rights, Access and Inclusion. A friend
of Benoit’s who proofread the letter provided a copy
of the document; another friend verified that it is
the letter submitted to the university.</p>
<p style="padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; overflow:
visible ! important; background-color: transparent;
margin: 0px 0px 21px; outline-width: 0px; font-family:
Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; vertical-align:
baseline;">A university spokeswoman said on Monday
that no official was available to comment on the
contents of the complaint.</p>
<p style="padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; overflow:
visible ! important; background-color: transparent;
margin: 0px 0px 21px; outline-width: 0px; font-family:
Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; vertical-align:
baseline;">Benoit wrote that Bustamante began flirting
with her soon after becoming her adviser “per the
instigation of the university” last fall, and by the
end of the semester, “he and I were in a sexually
active relationship.”</p>
<p style="padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; overflow:
visible ! important; background-color: transparent;
margin: 0px 0px 21px; outline-width: 0px; font-family:
Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; vertical-align:
baseline;">During this time, she said, she witnessed
numerous sexual comments, as well as “threats and
unpredictable behavior” toward students by Bustamante.</p>
<p style="padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; overflow:
visible ! important; background-color: transparent;
margin: 0px 0px 21px; outline-width: 0px; font-family:
Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; vertical-align:
baseline;">“If students wanted to question him, or
defy him in any way, he would always premise his
response with ‘it’s never a good idea to piss me
off,’ ” Benoit wrote.</p>
<p style="padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; overflow:
visible ! important; background-color: transparent;
margin: 0px 0px 21px; outline-width: 0px; font-family:
Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; vertical-align:
baseline;">Bustamante is reported to have been
afflicted with multiple personality disorder, and
Benoit wrote that she witnessed five of these
personalities, “or at least him portraying them.”</p>
</span></span></span>
</p>
<p style="padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; overflow: visible !
important; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px
21px; outline-width: 0px; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;
font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style=""
class="Apple-style-span"><span style=""
class="Apple-style-span">Benoit began to feel concern for
her safety and that of other students, the complaint said.
In it, she named 19 students as likely witnesses of
inappropriate behavior by Bustamante.</span><br>
</span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; overflow: visible !
important; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px
21px; outline-width: 0px; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;
font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style=""
class="Apple-style-span">She said she had seen Bustamante in
possession of at least five weapons and that he carried a
Utah concealed weapons permit.</span><br>
</p>
<p style="padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; overflow: visible !
important; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px
21px; outline-width: 0px; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;
font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">“He answers his
door with them, travels with them, sleeps near them,
everywhere,” she said of the weapons, “including on campus.”</p>
<p style="padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; overflow: visible !
important; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px
21px; outline-width: 0px; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;
font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">In the hotel room
where Bustamante committed suicide, police discovered six
weapons, including the .45-caliber pistol officers believe he
used to shoot Benoit.</p>
<p style="padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; overflow: visible !
important; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px
21px; outline-width: 0px; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;
font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Benoit suggested
that Bustamante had inappropriate relationships with others,
and that she had firsthand knowledge of an ongoing
relationship between the professor and at least one
other student.</p>
<p style="padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; overflow: visible !
important; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px
21px; outline-width: 0px; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;
font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Benoit asked the
university to protect her and help her sort out her master’s
degree program, which was heavily influenced by the professor
she had come to fear.</p>
<p style="padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; overflow: visible !
important; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px
21px; outline-width: 0px; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;
font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I cannot take
classes of his any longer nor can I permit this twisted
behavior to continue for the sake of myself and other women
who will come after me,” she wrote.</p>
<p style="padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; overflow: visible !
important; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px
21px; outline-width: 0px; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;
font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">She closed by
writing that there was “ample reason to be fully concerned
with the safety of all involved.”</p>
<p style="padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; overflow: visible !
important; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px
21px; outline-width: 0px; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;
font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Benoit said
Bustamante had threatened her at gunpoint on three occasions
between January and May, when she broke off the relationship.</p>
<p style="padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; overflow: visible !
important; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px
21px; outline-width: 0px; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;
font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">“He told her she
had four days to make it up to him or he was going to kill
her,” UI student Sarah Sutter, who helped her friend hide from
Bustamante, said in a telephone interview Monday.</p>
<p style="padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; overflow: visible !
important; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px
21px; outline-width: 0px; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;
font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">After the deaths
of Benoit and Bustamante, the university released a timeline
of the steps officials took in response to Benoit’s complaint.</p>
<p style="padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; overflow: visible !
important; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px
21px; outline-width: 0px; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;
font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">School officials
said they first learned of the relationship and the threats
against Benoit on June 10 and urged her to contact the Moscow
Police Department. The university also contacted
police directly.</p>
<p style="padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; overflow: visible !
important; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px
21px; outline-width: 0px; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;
font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Two days later,
Benoit filed the complaint with the university.</p>
<p style="padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; overflow: visible !
important; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px
21px; outline-width: 0px; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;
font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Police said
Bustamante filed a complaint of his own on July 8, alleging
that Benoit was trying to defame his character.</p>
<p style="padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; overflow: visible !
important; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px
21px; outline-width: 0px; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;
font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">On the day she was
killed, school officials told Benoit that Bustamante’s last
day of employment had been Aug. 19 and cautioned her “to
remain vigilant and get assistance from the police and others
if she had any safety concerns.”</p>
<p style="padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; overflow: visible !
important; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px
21px; outline-width: 0px; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;
font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Benoit was shot 11
times outside her apartment at 8:40 p.m.</p>
<p style="padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; overflow: visible !
important; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px
21px; outline-width: 0px; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;
font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sutter said the
university told Benoit that her tormentor would be dismissed,
“but nobody checked to make sure he was really gone.”</p>
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<div>Seeya round town, Moscow.</div>
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<div>Tom Hansen</div>
<div>Moscow, Idaho</div>
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<div>"When all is said and done, have you done or said enough?
Have you just gone along for the ride, or have you steered
destiny's hotrod? When you leave this world, did you make it
any better than it was when you arrived? All you need is all
you've got: your wits and the clothes on your back. Your
epitaph is yours to earn. Your legacy is yours to make."</div>
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