The University of Missouri used their Student Judicial Services office to expel me for complaining about discrimination by the university. The Student Conduct officer, Donell Young, lied to federal investigators at the Department of Education. He stated their was no retaliatoy relationship between a situation in the Ellis University, where I was approached by a staff member in an inappropriate, discriminatory manner and a previous
situation in which I complained about the sexual harassment of Rod Santos, the Director of Missouri's Creative Writing Program. This was patently incorrect, and obvious evidence of this is that documents from this
first incident were included among the Conduct Hearing
that was scheduled for the second one. It is illegal for the University to act punitively in exchange for discrimination complaints, yet both situations I am being harshly punished for involve my unwillingness to be quiet
about the incompetent and punitive manner in which the
university handles discrimination complaints. So unjust
and brutal were the university's behavior that I have developed multiple stress fractures in my left leg.
Mark Lucas and Cathy Scroggs, bosses of Donell Young,
refused to listen to my statements about his incompetence and insisted that I was due even harsher punishment for bringing up the fact that discrimination
claims should not be handled by an office primarily charged with handing down harsh punitive sanctions.
Donell Young erased from his reports all references
to the issue of the library's discrimination (She drew public attention to an aspect of my person that puts me in a protected category) and claimed instead that my
expressing dissatisfaction with the unwelcome solicitation
by the librarian constituted disorderly conduct. Further,
although a library report of the interchange clearly
stated no physical threat was perceived, he wrote me
and claimed I was guilty of assault.
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