Furman's embarassing Criminal Trespass Policy

  Furman criminal trespass policy and its random implementation on whims of some faculty is beneath the good reptation of the University. A Mr. Suttles in 2019 discovered that and became of some notoriety in a column easbily googled at the Furman Paladin Newspaper.

   I was told if I appealed my case I would charged with harassment.  A few weeks ago I discovered the Furman Thrive committee and  am seeking some sensibility from them to overule the decision so far by John Milby of campus security.  He is a ice fellow trained to be a Swat offider; He is just doing what his handlers tell him to do.

    So I hope the Thrivers will overrule him immediately as I desperately want to attend by 50th Homecoming celebration with outstanding lectures, Homecoming Day and the Sunday to follow when Alabama comes to the renovated arena to play Furman in an exhibition. My last five years back in the Upstate I have attended many games and revived some of the passion of the mid seventies with Clyde Mayes and Bruce Grimm

    Furman stand to lose a quarter of a milion dollars in the next few years from friends of mine who will no longer consider Furman in their wills. They think I have been mistreated and the word will spread.

  On top of that several of us are pledging cumulatively a thousand doallars in the nect decade if thisoutragesoum ridiculous charge is overturned for homecoming

     This is not Trone money, but a quarter million here and a thousand there and after a while we're talking real money.

   Here is just a short list of Furman folks Ive become acuainted with over the last fifty years, classmates and the greater community I am convinced a Fair searing of my predicament would join my cause

    Tomiko Brown Nagin of Harvard and Ratcliffe

    Ainsley Quiros of UNA and Vandy PHD. I reviewed her book on MLK and Americus Ga for Christian Ethics Today whose editor in Furman class of 65

  Historians Vernon Burton of Clemson and Ed Bridges who wrote the bicentennial history of Alabama. On my invitation he comae to Collinsville Alabama in 2019 for a Presentation

    Classmates John Baker of Charleston, and Bob Carr. Bob was an English Major and made a B in Crabtree's Schesspeare class. Baker was on the enengineering team that renovated the Dining Hall

    Dwight Smith who has stayed around Greenville and acitve in the Furman community the last 50 years.

    Vic Greene longtime Caplain. As noted in an earlier blog, Jim Pitts said he would nominate for a Furman chapter of the Order of the Palmetto.

 Kathy Sharpe shose Mother was English   teacher at Furman and husband Mark Stone just reitred from the  Philosophy Department

  And I think if you asked him the right question Alec Taylor, trustee and benefactor would come down on my side. Hwas on my Intramural softball team.  About 15 years ago he coame to Collinsville where I had arranged forHugo Black's Grandson Stepehn to have lunch with us

     I amm open after Homecoming to meet off campus or wherever with the The Thrive folks or their representatitives to iron this matter out. Longtime Greenville asttorney and state senator Fletcher Smith who was SC campaign manager for Joe Lieberman and in 2008 a hot aommodity for Hillary Clinton and Obamahas told me his open to meeting with us. We have been friends since the days of integration in Gaffney