We are glad to read that your issues with HCC were resolved to your satisfaction. We are generally aware of Hillsborough County School district calendar and other issues. We are glad that you are an ACLU member and invite you to attend our next meeting on Tuesday, 9 Jan. 2007 at the time and location mentioned on your websites referenced in our signature lines.

Lee De Cesare wrote:

Thank you, Tampa ACLU. The intervention of Patrick Manteiga of La Gaceta fixed the problem. I believe he told one Orme of the HCC technology overloads that the college made the mistake of leaving the email address cluster on the web and were punishing me for its incompetence because I used it.

Besides, he told the fellow that I am a wild woman who will not give up until I get my email opened again and that the administration would be better off to open my email and save itself the grief of my open-my-email campaign. So my email is open now.

I have since learned that a group of people who opposed adding non-Christian holidays to the school calendar has filed a suit against the County school system on the same issue. The schools shut down the email access of this group to the school emails. I am in the process of discovering whether this were a Board decision or whether the administration--fully as ignorant as that at HCC--shut it down itself without consulting the School Board.

ACLU might want to follow this case and to add a whatchamacallit support-of-free-speech endorsement (friend of the court?) to the people's case who are suing the School Board. I don't agree with the antis who wanted only Christian holidays recognized by the school system, but its benighted members have a right to air their views, especially to a tax-supported institution. I hope I do not need to be back to the ACLU about this issue, but with the hip-deep ignorance of the Bay Area, a possibility exists that I will be. Lee Drury De Cesare ACLU member -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: TampaFL ACLUFL [mailto:aclufl_tampa@yahoo.com] Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 1:54 AM To: tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com

Subject: Hills Community College Email Acct. Free Speech - ACLU help requested Subject: Hills Community College Email Acct. Free Speech - ACLU help requested We are not certain about this issue. Please complete the ACLU of Florida request for assistance web form at http://www.aclufl.org/forms/?action=complaintForm to get your request formally into our systems.

By blind copy of this communication, we are providing your information to the Greater Tampa Chapter of the ACLU of Florida legal panel staff coordinator for consideration of the legal panel. Lee De Cesare wrote: I introduced myself to the local ACLU chapter chair Paul (I believe) and the young woman who spoke against parental notification at the Hillsborough County School Board meeting. I am a member of the ACLU and always relieved when the organization is on the scene to protect civil liberties--especially as was this case of the County's young gay students.

I need ACLU help myself. I am a retired professor of Hillsborough Community College (28 years). I lived in Beach Park in Tampa before moving to the beach when I retired. I got an address list off the HCC Web to send email, which turned out to be the system-wide addresses. I was delighted to learn that the email went system wide to faculty and staff because in it I criticized the administration, which I fought constantly while I was still teaching for various administration skullduggeries. I was especially active against its fascist conduct when I was faculty union president.

I was widely hated at the Gordon Keller administration building, the members of which celebrated, I am sure when I retired. Subsequent to the email sent round, I got a snail mail from a administration anonymous Deep Throat, who informed me that the administration had shut my email out so that I could email no one at HCC. The administration had not informed me of this fact: it just shut me down.

I did a blog to put this email on since the Deepthroat wanted the information about current administration put on the Web:

www.HCCDeepThroat.blogspot.com.

I have since got another snail mail drop from Deepthroat and mounted that too. When Patrick Manteiga, my old boss when I wrote a column for La Gaceta, called the HCC tech department and spoke to a guy named Orme, who is in charge of the mainframe (he ran against Ronda Storms for the Florida Senate and lost).

Orme said that all I had to do was call him and that he would restore my email. I called, and Orme told me that if I signed a statement that I was a spammer and subject to the spammer law, the college would consider reinstating my email. I refused. He said that they had fixed the problem my email detected by removing that system-wide address page from the Web that I had used when I distributed the email.

They just want to shut up my criticism of the administration. Question: can you help me get my email reopened into the college? This is a free-speech issue if ever there was one. I am going to the January Board meeting to protest, and it would help if ACLU could go with me or that I could say that ACLU is concerned with the situation.

Sincerely, Lee Drury De Cesare 15316 Gulf Boulevard 802 Madeira Beach, FL 33708 727-398-4142 Communications Committee Board Member (a volunteer and probably not an attorney) The Greater Tampa Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Florida (FL) Website: http://www.ACLUFL.org/Tampa, Yahoo Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ACLUTampa/ Greater Tampa ACLU Board Voice Mail Telephone: 813-227-9877 ACLU of Florida (http://www.ACLUFL.org); ACLU of Florida Phone Number: (786) 363-2700 ACLU of Florida Mailing Address: 4500 Biscayne Blvd., Suite 340, Miami, FL 33137-3227 Requests for ACLU of Florida legal assistance: http://www.ACLUFL.org/get_help/ ACLU National (http://www.ACLU.org) Communications Committee Board Member (a volunteer and probably not an attorney) The Greater Tampa Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Florida (FL) Website: http://www.ACLUFL.org/Tampa, Yahoo Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ACLUTampa/ Greater Tampa ACLU Board Voice Mail Telephone: 813-227-9877 ACLU of Florida (http://www.ACLUFL.org); ACLU of Florida Phone Number: (786) 363-2700 ACLU of Florida Mailing Address: 4500 Biscayne Blvd., Suite 340, Miami, FL 33137-3227 Requests for ACLU of Florida legal assistance: http://www.ACLUFL.org/get_help/ ACLU National (http://www.ACLU.org) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

Thank you, Tampa ACLU. The intervention of Patrick Manteiga of La Gaceta fixed the problem.

I believe he told one Orme of the HCC technology overloads that the college made the mistake of leaving the email address cluster on the web and was punishing me for its incompetence because I used it.

Besides, he told the fellow that I am a wild woman who will not give up until I get my email opened again and that the administration would be better off to open my email and save itself the grief of my open-my-email campaign. So my email is open now.

I have since learned that a group of people who opposed adding non-Christian holidays to the school calendar has filed a suit against the County school system on the same issue. The schools shut down the email access of this group to the school emails. I am in the process of discovering whether this were a Board decision or whether the administration--fully as ignorant as that at HCC--shut it down itself without consulting the School Board. ACLU might want to follow this case and to add a whatchamacallit support-of-free-speech endorsement (friend of the court?) to the people's case who are suing the School Board.

I don't agree with the antis who wanted only Christian holidays recognized by the school system, but its benighted members have a right to air their views, especially to a tax-supported institution. I hope I do not need to be back to the ACLU about this issue, but with the hip-deep ignorance of the Bay Area, a possibility exists that I will be.

Lee Drury De Cesare ACLU member --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: TampaFL ACLUFL [mailto:aclufl_tampa@yahoo.com] Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 1:54 AM To: tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com Subject: Hills Community College Email Acct. Free Speech - ACLU help requested Subject: Hills Community College Email Acct. Free Speech - ACLU help requested

We are not certain about this issue. Please complete the ACLU of Florida request for assistance web form at http://www.aclufl.org/forms/?action=complaintForm to get your request formally into our systems.

By blind copy of this communication, we are providing your information to the Greater Tampa Chapter of the ACLU of Florida legal panel staff coordinator for consideration of the legal panel.

Lee De Cesare wrote: I introduced myself to the local ACLU chapter chair Paul (I believe) and the young woman who spoke against parental notification at the Hillsborough County School Board meeting. I am a member of the ACLU and always relieved when the organization is on the scene to protect civil liberties--especially as was this case of the County's young gay students.

I need ACLU help myself. I am a retired professor of Hillsborough Community College (28 years). I lived in Beach Park in Tampa before moving to the beach when I retired. I got an address list off the HCC Web to send email, which turned out to be the system-wide addresses. I was delighted to learn that the email went system wide to faculty and staff because in it I criticized the administration, which I fought constantly while I was still teaching for various administration skullduggeries.

I was especially active against its fascist conduct when I was faculty union president. I was widely hated at the Gordon Keller administration building, the members of which celebrated, I am sure when I retired.

Subsequent to the email sent round, I got a snail mail from a administration anonymous Deep Throat, who informed me that the administration had shut my email out so that I could email no one at HCC.

The administration had not informed me of this fact: it just shut me down. I did a blog to put this email on since the Deepthroat wanted the information about current administration put on the Web: www.HCCDeepThroat.blogspot.com.

I have since got another snail mail drop from Deepthroat and mounted that too. When Patrick Manteiga, my old boss when I wrote a column for La Gaceta, called the HCC tech department and spoke to a guy named Orme, who is in charge of the mainframe (he ran against Ronda Storms for the Florida Senate and lost).

Orme said that all I had to do was call him and that he would restore my email. I called, and Orme told me that if I signed a statement that I was a spammer and subject to the spammer law, the college would consider reinstating my email. I refused.

He said that they had fixed the problem my email detected by removing that system-wide address page from the Web that I had used when I distributed the email. They just want to shut up my criticism of the administration.

Question: can you help me get my email reopened into the college? This is a free-speech issue if ever there was one. I am going to the January Board meeting to protest, and it would help if ACLU could go with me or that I could say that ACLU is concerned with the situation.

Sincerely, Lee Drury De Cesare 15316 Gulf Boulevard 802 Madeira Beach, FL 33708 727-398-4142

Communications Committee Board Member (a volunteer and probably not an attorney) The Greater Tampa Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Florida (FL) Website: http://www.ACLUFL.org/Tampa, Yahoo Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ACLUTampa/ Greater Tampa ACLU Board Voice Mail Telephone: 813-227-9877 ACLU of Florida (http://www.ACLUFL.org); ACLU of Florida Phone Number: (786) 363-2700 ACLU of Florida Mailing Address: 4500 Biscayne Blvd., Suite 340, Miami, FL 33137-3227 Requests for ACLU of Florida legal assistance: http://www.ACLUFL.org/get_help/ ACLU National (http://www.ACLU.org) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

More Administration Skullduggery: Suppressing Press Speech

The administration put this kid on suspension apparently for doing stories on the bookstore story that cast it in a negative light. The administration does not like to be cast in a negative light. ldd -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: cubanmath@aol.com [mailto:cubanmath@aol.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 5:03 PM To: tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com Subject: Fwd: Journalist Disquisitiones FYI -----Original Message-----

From: dgagnon75@yahoo.com To: cubanmath@aol.com Sent: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:48 AM Subject: Re: Journalist Disquisitiones Bello, I will not be doing the follow up stories for the bookstore. HCC has placed me on suspension for the Spring semester based on false allegations by my former girlfriend.

I am no longer editor of the Hawkeye. I will be attending USF instead and will be taking college Algebra. I will call you if I need help.

Thank you for your help with the story. A lot of people have commented on it. Dominique cubanmath@aol.com wrote: You won't! Enjoy your vacation. Bello

Former Professor of Math at HCC Speaks

Ignacio, you can write. Get each one of these employees to tell their story and send it to the BOT members. I have their addresses. I got them from a little fill-in staff person during the lunch hour--always the best time to get unexpurgated information.

While the cat's away the mice will play.

As soon as I can locate the Board's addresses, I will forward them to you. They can't cut you off at three minutes.

Call the SPTimes and the Tribune and find out who covers the HCC Board and send them copies. You have to educate reporters about what's going on. There is very little investigative reporting in the Bay Area. It's more like press stenography for those in power because that's easier to do.

Also, ask Stephenson for a public-information copy of the meeting notes that Maida refers to in the email to with Sue Flaig and some flossy attorney. Ask for the attorney's name and a copy of his bill. Ask for his report. Ask for everything connected with that meeting. I believe Maida felt the administration contingent engaged in lies in this meeting. That's the kind of thing you write the Ethics Commission and the Bar Ethics Committee about. Nobody is going to kill you if you write these commissions. I wrote about Garner's chasing secretaries around the desk, a move that contributed to his demise.

Ask for a list of the Foundation members and their addresses. Send a copy of the women's stories to them. What the HCC administration is doing is equivalent to outsourcing. No wonder the country is going to hell. Soon we will be South America: the oligarchs and the peasants working for bread and company shack.

Get on this, Ignacio. People who don't squawk get walked on.

lee
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Hello, I see that you are as active and feisty as when we were at the Airport Collegium. I was the coordinator of Math at the time.

My wife is the third manager being fired, she did not address the board, but I did. I am enclosing the gist of my message, which was promptly interrupted by the head lady of the board: Three minutes, please. I thought that after working in the soap factory for 33 years, they would give you the decency to at least let you finish your presentation.

Anyway, the text is enclosed.

Later, the Hawkeye did an article (one of the administration minions claims that they are not putting the money the outsourcing will produce in their pockets). Of course not, but it does give administration travel and entertainment money derived from the back of the employees being fired. Then... the editor of the Hawkeye got fired. Coincidence? Possibly. I am also forwarding his letter to me.

You are as good with the language as ever, too bad I am just a mathematician!

Hope all is well, I still see some of the USF people that were in the Tampa Now and they used to read your articles in La Gaceta.

Have a joyful Christmas season, and keep up the good work!

Ignacio Bello

Professor, Mathematics, USF

Retired, HCC

Bookstore Report: Contents 1. Save the Bookstore.org 2. Deconstructing BRC report (10 Key Benefits) 3. Myths and facts on outsourcing 4. Six facts for Faculty 5. Ten facts for students 6. Save the Bookstore report When visitors come to Ybor, where do they go? The White Administration building across the street or the Ybor Room? They go to the bookstore, where loyal employees that have been there for 10, 15, 20 years can knowledgeably talk about HCC. Will an outside vendor have employees like that? Let us look at the USF model, a bookstore outsourced to Barnes and Noble. A. Employees: 3 in Buyback 5 in ordering Many in sales Only one (1) stayed. What was the procedure for hiring the USF bookstore personnel? You were given a description of the positions available at Barnes and Noble, and then you picked the ones you thought you qualified for. B. Students (look at 10 facts for students) Looks like a Barnes and Noble, with its ubiquitous Starbucks, not USF Looks like Barnes and Noble, not HCC Separate and unequal, visit HCC Ybor and HCC Brandon. USF Facts for College Algebra, Precalculus, Precalculus/Alg-Trig, Business Calculus, Engineering Calculus Spring 2005 Books ordered by Dept 3036 Ordered by BN 1012 Results: Ran out of textbooks 1st day because orders were 1/3 of request. Fall 2005 Books ordered by Dept 3988 Ordered by BN 1190 Results: Ran out of textbooks 2nd day because orders were 1/3 of request Spring 2006 Books ordered by Dept 3335 Ordered by BN 1112 Results: Ran out of textbooks 1st day because orders were 1/3 of request Response from BN: They buy limited quantities, the rest made up with buybacks. Question: How many of you have seen a used book at BN? Fact: The publisher offered to ship the entire order and take the excess back. Who is affected at HCC? Seniors over 50 or 60 near retirement age, women, and minorities. Their retirement will be impacted (No DROP). Will BN hire over 50 or 60 when they can get young people at minimum wage? WHY OUTSOURCE? Some Financial facts New books: 3.6 million in 2001  4.8 million 2006 33% growth Books: 4.1 million in 2001  5.8 million 2006 41% growth Total Revenue: 4.9 million in 2001  6.4 million 2006 31% growth Total Personnel: 765,000 in 2001  796,000 in 2006 4% (a meager $31,000) Includes Fringe Benefits Excess Revenue: $209,000 in 2001  $244,000 in 2006 17% Hospitality Fund: $90,000 in 2001  $200,000 in 2006 55% growth SUGGESTIONS: 1. New outside Responsive Committee without gag order Sarah Emerson, Ralph Castellano, Diane Ferreira 2. Give profits back to students. 3 book Bello Developmental Series: lowest price in market Bello $78 BN ($50 to BN) $73.75 at Amazon Martin Gay $111.35 ($75 to BN) $87.32 at Amazon Bittinger $111.35 ($75 to BN) $118.00 at Amazon Saving to students: $33.35 for each book in series Loss of potential revenue to Bello: $200,000 By the way, before I left, I gave thousands to the foundation!

More from Maida

Maida:

I will get the word out now that Patrick Manteiga has convinced the administration to open my email lines. I think he told the GK honchos that I am a wild woman. I relish that reputation.

Was the lawyer at the meeting you refer to a HCC staff attorney, or was it one of the Board attorneys? If you believe a lawyer lies, you can file a charge with the Florida Bar's Ethics Division.

I will show you how. You don't have to be a genius to do this. You just tell your story and lay it in the lap of the Ethics people of the Florida Bar Association. The Florida Bar does not want lying lawyers in its ranks, so these complaints get results and put the culprit on notice that people are not supine.

Ask the other Bookstore people if they want to file a charge about the conduct of the lawyer(s). This is America. We don't have to take mistreatment lying down.

Tell Sarah hey from me. I aggravated her to death when she was my Bookstore supervisor. I always went in hollering, "Where is the Bookstore Supervisor? I want to see her about a very important book."

And lodge a formal request with Dr. Stevens for a copy of the lawyer's opinion at that meeting--he must have put it in writing for those big bucks.The taxpayers need this as proof that we are not getting cheated of a flossy legal opinion that we pay big time for in billable hours. And ask for the billable hours. Those data can go with your Bar complaint.

If this high-falutin' lawyer hasn't put his in advice in writing, ask that he put it in writing. Ask for any notes on the meeting and ask for summary comments from all administration personnel present. Most often people don't hear the same thing.

Don't trust word of mouth. Ask the record in writing. Ask for these records right away--one or all of you. The administration thinks it can cow you with lawyers and huffing and puffing legalisms. Nonsense. Let's ask for plain English and make them lay out just how grubby they are being in treating the Bookstore people like field hands.

I will ask Dr. Judith Chambers to deconstruct the explanations for us. She appears in courts to tell juries what something a person has written really says. She will do this pro bono because she is a good gal. I will review the lawyer's and the administrators' grammar and punctuation. They always mess up yet get paid bloated salaries in a tax-supported institution.

Look at this as an adventure in democracy and self-protection. In this grand country, we are entitled to such great opportunities if we only have the nerve to use them. Win or lose, we have that exhilarating adventure under our belts.

lee

Thanks Lee believe we are trying but we all believe it's a done deal they lied to us so much already and they have broken so many laws .

There cronies have been there so long that they have started believing what they say. Leeann and I and Faye Doyle went to a meeting with are union for the staff in front of Sue Flaig and Donna Miller and they had there lawyer who knows they are breaking the law but at 400 dollars and hour ( I believe that's what they get what can we expect.

I hope the meeting is after the rush at the bookstore because I want to definitely go and I will let Bev and Leeann know. I will try to see if Sarah Emerson will go too and Mr. Bello he already spoke for us at the Nov meeting. Thank you so much and my phone number is 4176432 if you would like to speak to me.

----- OrigTinal Message -----

From: Lee De Cesare

To: 'Maida Bello'

Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 8:28 PM

Subject: RE: in regards to the bookstore outsource

Maida, I shall do what I can and see if I can get a few old colleagues to pitch in with me. It's hard to get people to speak up. They are terrified to do so, even though I have assured people that bullies always pick on the weak, not the strong. The best place to be is in the front lines of protest. As a Board member told me once after the administration tried to fire me for my protest of some wrongdoing, "Lee, you would be the hardest person in the college to fire."

I will go to the January Board meeting to speak. If you are there, come meet me and my husband of 51 years. I will try to get two or three of the old warriors to join me, but if I don't succeed in rousting them out, I will be there for sure and do all I can to see that you get a fair shake. It's unfair to dump long-term employees. The administration is so busy feathering its nest that it doesn't have a care for the people on the lower end of the food chain. It's wicked to deprive these people of benefits at the end of long careers at HCC.

Patrick Manteiga of La Gaceta has promised to get me a union contact for y'all to consult. This behavior on the administration's part demonstrates why employees need unions. I was union president at HCC, and Lord knows what the administration would have done to faculty unless we had been unionized.

Hang in there. I will do all I can for you. And don't back down. Don't lie down and show your belly to these bullies. You're goners of you do. Go down fighting. Never say die.

lee

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From: Maida Bello [mailto:mbello1@tampabay.rr.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 4:49 PM
To: tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com
Subject: in regards to the bookstore outsource

Hi my name is Maida Bello you know my husband. I am the bookstore supervisor at the HCC Ybor bookstore I was also at the board meeting but didn't stand to speak I am not a good speaker or letter writer but I stand behind my colleagues

I appreciate that you are speaking up we sure need help. We all are very disappointed with the faculty and staff because no one has stood up to help us.

We are but 10 or so employs who will be only guaranteed a job for one year.

Most of us have work at the bookstore for 10 to 20 years Beverly and Leeann have been there for at least 20 I have been there for 17 full and 4 part time.

A few of us are at the point of drop so we will not be able to take advantage of the drop program and some of us have health issues .

I couldn;t believe Sue Flagg at a meeting we went to I spoke up and she tells me oh you will get 3 months insurance and I said and what will I do with that.

Anyway you are appreciated here

thanks so much you need to get your email to all the college if you can.

Thanks

Maida

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From: Maida Bello [mailto:mbello1@tampabay.rr.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 4:49 PM
To: tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com
Subject: in regards to the bookstore outsource

Hi my name is Maida Bello you know my husband. I am the bookstore supervisor at the HCC Ybor bookstore I was also at the board meeting but didn't stand to speak I am not a good speaker or letter writer but I stand behind my colleagues

I appreciate that you are speaking up we sure need help. We all are very disappointed with the faculty and staff because no one has stood up to help us.

We are but 10 or so employess who will be only guaranteed a job for one year.

Most of us have work at the bookstore for 10 to 20 years Beverly and Leeann have been there for at least 20 I have been there for 17 full and 4 part time.

A few of us are at the point of drop so we will not be able to take advantage of the drop program and some of us have heatlh issues .

I couldn;t believe Sue Flagg at a meeting we went to I spoke up and she tells me oh you will get 3 months insurance and I said and what will I do with that.

Anyway you are appreciated here

thanks so much you need to get your email to all the college if you can.

Thanks

Maida

Message from a Bookstore Employee

Maida, I shall do what I can and see if I can get a few old colleagues to pitch in with me. It's hard to get people to speak up.

They are terrified to do so, even though I have assured people that bullies always pick on the weak, not the strong.

The best place to be is in the front lines of protest. As a Board member told me once after the administration tried to fire me for my protest of some wrongdoing, "Lee, you would be the hardest person in the college to fire."

I will go to the January Board meeting to speak. If you are there, come meet me and my husband of 51 years. I will try to get two or three of the old warriors to join me, but if I don't succeed in rousting them out, I will be there for sure and do all I can to see that you get a fair shake.

It's unfair to dump long-term employees. The administration is so busy feathering its nest that it doesn't have a care for the people on the lower end of the food chain. It's wicked to deprive these people of benefits at the end of long careers at HCC. Patrick Manteiga of La Gaceta has promised to get me a union contact for y'all to consult. This behavior on the administration's part demonstrates why employees need unions. I was union president at HCC, and Lord knows what the administration would have done to faculty unless we had been unionized. Hang in there. I will do all I can for you.

And don't back down. Don't lie down and show your belly to these bullies. You're goners of you do. Go down fighting. Never say die.

lee

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Maida Bello [mailto:mbello1@tampabay.rr.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 4:49 PM To: tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com

Subject: in regards to the bookstore outsource Hi my name is Maida Bello you know my husband. I am the bookstore supervisor at the HCC Ybor bookstore I was also at the board meeting but didn't stand to speak I am not a good speaker or letter writer but I stand behind my colleagues I appreciate that you are speaking up we sure need help.

We all are very disappointed with the faculty and staff because no one has stood up to help us. We are but 10 or so employess who will be only guaranteed a job for one year. Most of us have work at the bookstore for 10 to 20 years Beverly and Leeann have been there for at least 20 I have been there for 17 full and 4 part time.

A few of us are at the point of drop so we will not be able to take advantage of the drop program and some of us have heatlh issues . I couldn;t believe Sue Flagg at a meeting we went to I spoke up and she tells me oh you will get 3 months insurance and I said and what will I do with that. Anyway you are appreciated here thanks so much you need to get your email to all the college if you can.

Thanks Maida

A Big Kiss for Coach Babcock

Dear Ms. DeCesare,

I believe that if you will re-look at the montage on the athletics splash page (http://www.hccfl.edu/athletics/) you will see that there are pictures of eight woman students athletes out of the 12 photos. HCC has programs in four woman’s sports programs--volleyball, tennis, softball, and basketball and two men’s sports programs--basketball and baseball. Each program in the montage has photos of two student athletes.

Women student athletes are awarded 63 scholarships and men 30 scholarships. HCC is in full compliance with all Title IX requirements.

Also, you spelled Dr. Chunn’s name correctly.

I appreciate your interest in and your support for woman athletes.

Dean Babcock

Ms. Larsen, the Coach, and Dr. Chum on My Radar Screen Today

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From: Lee De Cesare [mailto:tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 12:23 AM
Subject: monkey biz at GK as usual; things never change. lee


December 18, 2006

Ms. Larsen:

You have no idea how disappointed I am to read from my snail mail Deepthroat, who turned up out of the blue, a second communication after the administration shut down my email that you are participating in harassing two HCC women with courage enough to protest to the Board the outsourcing of the bookstores. The administration probably wants to throw the bookstore people into the arms of the subcontractors who have the cleaning people in their clutches currently—the ones that pay 3rd-world wages with no benefits.

Does the Board of Trustees know about this despicable conduct on yours and on other administrators’ parts? If not, I advise both book-store women this way: keep logs and record what happens that portends to the administration’s building a case against you to fire you because you dared oppose outsourcing by the administration.

I wish the administration would outsource itself. It wouldn’t be missed is my prediction.

I expect better of women than that kind of sleazy behavior, ma’am. I have worked forty-five years in the Women’s Movement to open up top jobs to women, and now that some have got there, those such as Dr. Stevenson demonstrate no better leadership morals than guys. Dr. Stevenson has been a real letdown. My analysis says she’s little better than her predecessor, Ambrose Garner, who chased women around his desk.

Stop picking on Beverly and Leann, the book-store women. I have never met these women, but if they want my help, I will do what I can. I helped Iris Willis get an attorney when Garner was sexually harassing her. Then only about six people would speak to me. No wonder the administration gets away with murder in its dealings with the rest of the college. Few have the guts to stand up and oppose the administration skullduggery. Bullies pick on the weak; they avoid people who fight back.

I know for a certainty that my Episcopalian Jesus does not like this unchristian behavior of ganging up on the little people to deprive them of their jobs and their dignity and make them cower in fear until you succeed at this evil project. I know He doesn’t. Jesus’s a buddy of mine.

I see you are on the HCC Foundation Directors roster. Please send me the address of the chair of that conglomeration. I need to contact him or her. The Foundation needs some unexpurgated data on the administration’s ethics when it comes to treating its employees like human beings. I see that the Foundation members are from some of the big-cheese outfits around town. That fact is just yummy to me. I love to interact with such Pooh Bahs to spread the word on the practice of skullduggery to trash the little people in the foundations they sit on.

Keep in mind that this is also a public information I request and from you and thus liable to the Sunshine law.

And remind Dr. Stephenson of the list of public-information materials that I have already asked of her. I haven’t heard a peep from the woman, and she has not returned my phone call. My Georgia mother would say the behavior of such person indicates being raised in a barn. The Sunshine law says Dr. Stephenson must provide these materials in a timely fashion. Her response has not been timely. Does the Board have to prompt her to do her job? Do people have to go running to the Board to get the administration to do its jobs and act in a decent fashion befitting the bloated salaries that we taxpayers provide?

And ask Dr. Stephenson to add the employment file of the guy involved with questionable computer use about the time I retired and to inform me by carrier pigeon since email seems to be a no-man’s land when to come to GK to review the stack of stuff I have asked for. Florida public-records law mandates this access to information I requested for my review or a written reason for refusal.

As I recall, this questionable-computer-use fellow was the administrator whom Dr. Stephenson brought with her when she got her job, the one whom she created a job for at the taxpayers’ expense, and about whom there was a question about use of the computer on college time, and also about whom I could not confirm ten years ago the NOVA degree he claimed to have with the NOVA records department. I am ready to take up that investigation again now that y’all quidnuncs have shut me out of the emails. That kind of behavior tells me that there is skullduggery big-time going on at GK that needs a public airing.


Given the ethical swamp waters surrounding GK, that you in the administration thuggery corps have the nerve now to harass two women from the HCC Book Stores and to plot ways to catch them in little nit-picking contretemps to terminate them with the GK legal hired guns because they dared to protest to the Board their administration- proposed loss of jobs to subcontracting banditos is an outrage against free speech and a crime that demonstrates the lack of basic civility that glues civilization together. This treatment of low-on-the-food-chain employees is the kind of stuff that guarantees people who do it a slot in hell in the hottest part. How do I know that? Jesus told me.

The quidnuncs with whom you and other administrative deadwood have shut out my emails from the college to prevent my saying anything about administration hijinks is not going to prevent my getting out the word. This is America, and we have free speech—even in the badlands of the HCC administration education-world bullies. Trust me to exercise it by hook or by crook.

In colleges and universities especially, you must be able to outtalk people, not shut them out of the email apparatus of a tax-supported institution because a person has verbally bested you. Being able to verbally defend your position with effect is what education is all about. People who can reason and speak well don’t have to shut down emails to shut the contrary voice up. Those skills are what people in higher education are supposed to command: they are able to debate, confute, refute, gainsay, one-up, dazzle, thwart—all with words—on the email or anywhere.

You don’t resort to email shut downs, take your marbles, and go into hunker-down mode in you GK tree house. Keep in mind that you don’t own that building. The taxpayers do. You are just passing through as will others after you. God willing, some decent ones will occupy GK sooner or later. I hope to live to see the day.

Your behavior in this little playpen confrontation illustrates the truth of my contention that academic weaklings go into administration while smart people go into teaching. I believe my having said that is why you shut me down—not the spam excuse that you have ginned up after I used email data off HCC’s web site as my address list. The tech department messed up and left the email information on the Web and now has the effrontery to blame their incompetence on me and shut me down as cover up for mess-ups as usual at GK.

Tell the GK mainframe cowboys that they might as well open the email gates for me. I didn’t graduate Phi Beta Kappa summa cum laude from a before-grade-inflation NY university for nothing. I can think up ways to get around dummies. I did for the 28 years I served as Professor of English at Dale Mabry.

I believe in the Constitution’s promise of free speech, especially in a college with pretensions of academic freedom. The Constitution doesn’t exempt spoiled, silly administrators at HCC. It applies to them too.

Without free speech, we don’t have democracy. Y’all GK despots would probably like that, but that situation is not to be.

December 18, 2006

lee drury de cesare
15316 Gulf Boulevard 802
Madeira Beach, FL 33708
727-398-4142

You will find this letter on http://www.HCCDeepThroat.blogspot.com

ADMINISTRATIVE RULES
Title: RELEASE OF INFORMATJON TO THE PUBLIC
Identification: 6HX-1 0-2.06
Page: lof I
Effective Date: 4119106
Authority:
SBE Chapter_119;_1001.64;_1001.65
Si aturelApproval:
PURPOSE
This administrative rule establishes policy concerning release of information to the public.
RULE
Records of the College are open to the public unless exempt in accordance with State or Federal law. For purposes of release of information to the public, the Executive Director of Marketing and Public Relations will serve as the primary custodian of records, appointed for the College. In the absence of the primary custodian, the College Attorney will serve as the alternate. Members of the public may request the custodian of records to provide access to public records. After receipt of the request, the custodian will provide access within a reasonable time, under reasonable conditions and under supervision by the custodian of records or a designee, or explain in writing the reason for denial of access or for delay. Members of the public may request copies of public records. A reasonable charge may be made to cover the actual cost of copies and for the cost of staff time required to perform document search, as permitted by law.


Some of the communications from my GK Deepthroat below. They all appear on www.http://HccDeepthroat.blogspot.com

History: New
Community CoIIegeH
DISTRICT

Lee Drury De Cesare,
ADMINISTRATIVE
OFFICES

HCC administrators have made sure that your voice is not heard amongst HCC rank-and file faculty and staff.
This past year, the administration has subtly pushed to eliminate hard-earned employees’ rights and benefits.
This past November, (If I gave you exact date/time/location my identity would be revealed; I would face immediate dismissal.)

HCC vice president Barbara Larson while speaking to
(Blacked out) said the following, quote: “I can see those two bookstore workers who spoke up at the board meeting are going to be a big problem. Start documenting things against them.” Then said the following, quote: “I’m already on it.”

Barbara Larson was most likely referring to the two HCC bookstore supervisors (Beverly Muller and Leann Horwood) who spoke up against outsourcing HCC bookstore operations
board meeting.

I enclosed for you a copy of 11/15/06 board meeting

I’ve been with HCC for many, many years, and have witnessed administrators and their eager and willing department heads punish those who speak a differing voice. I fear that those two courageous bookstore supervisors will be punished for speaking out.

Back in 1999, Gwendolyn Stephenson, Sue Flaig and a bevy of managers, made up false charges against a HCC bookstore supervisor Miriam Del Rio. The bogus charges were later dropped (Blacked out) hired attorney John W. Bakas, Jr.), but she was deliberately harassed and eventually had to file a claim with the EEOC. copies of internal HCC documents on that matter.

The lengths to which HCC administrators go to eliminate human decency.

Please post this letter on your blog for others to see.
GK Insider

The HCC Administrative Thugs Strike Again

This is the second document drop from GK Deep Throat. It's a little choppy because I converted it to text from original.

Things have not changed since I was teaching at HCC for 28 years. Dr. Stephenson sounds like the usual toxic president that follows in the tradition of Morton Shanberg and Ambrose Garner. I think all the pschologically disturbed academic weaklings have flocked to the HCC administration.

The Board must intervene. We'll see what the resources of the State government can do to insure that it does. lee

HillsboroughCommunity CoIIege

DISTRICT ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES

Lee Drury De Cesare,

HCC administrators have made sure that your voice is not heard amongst HCC rank-and-file.

This past year, the administration has subtly pushed to eliminate hard-earned employees’
rights and benefits.

This past November, (If I gave you exact date/time/location my identity would be revealed;
I would face immediate dismissal.)

HCC vice president Barbara Larson while speaking to
HCC t, LW j —, said the following, quote: "I can see those two bookstore
documenting things against them. then said the following, quote: "I’m already on it."

Barbara Larson was most likely referring to the two HCC bookstore supervisors (Beverly
at the 11/15/06 board meeting. I enclosed for you a copy of 11/15/06 board meeting
minutes.

I’ve been with HCC for many, many years, and have witnessed administrators and their
eager and willing department heads punish those who speak a differing voice. I fear that
those two courageous bookstore supervisors will be punished for speaking out.

Back in 1999, Gwendolyn Stephenson, Sue Flaig and a bevy of managers, made up false
charges against a HCC bookstore supervisor Miriam Del Rio.

The bogus charges were
later dropped ç t..i --i—hired attorney John W. Bakas, Jr.), but she was deliberately harassed and eventually had to file a claim with the EEOC. I enclosed for you. copies of internal HCC documents on that matter.

The lengths to which HCC administrators go to eliminate perceived threats to beyond
human decency.

Please post this letter on your blog for others to see.

GK Insider

I
HILLSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE

DISTRICT BOARD OF TRUSTEES

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2006 - 5:00 RM.

BOARD MEETING

BRANDONCAMPUS
ADMINiSTRATION BUILDING ROOM 117
MINUTES
1.0 GENERAL FUNCTIONS
1 .01 Call to Order
Ms. Watkins called the meeting to order at 5:15 p.m.
1.02 Pledge of Allegiance
1.03 Invocation
Ms. Watkins requested that during the moment of silence staff remerr Kenie Freeman, an HCC student athlete, who recently passed away.
1.04 Roll Call
The following Trustees were in attendance:
Mr. Daniel Coton [5:20 p.m.]
Mrs. Nancy Watkins
Dr. W. Edward Gonzalez
Mrs. Chappella Hill
Mr. Thomas Huggins, Ill
1.05 Welcome to Guests and Staff Members
Ms. Watkins welcomed all guests and staff members
1.06 Foundation Report

months for the College’s outsourced IT Department to respond tO his “Help Desk” computer repair request.
4.02 Mr. Peter Rossi, a Plant City Campus Program Biologist, addressed the Board and expressed his concern regarding his position as a Program Biologist with the Florida Studies Department being reclassified from a full-time regular position to a full-time temporary position, He explained that the program had previously been funded by the College; however, it has recently been changed to self supporting through grant funding and other sources.

Ms. Watkins requested clarification regarding the difference between a full-time regular and full-time temporary position.

Ms. Sue Flaig, the Director of Human Resources, explained that a full- time regular position is funded through hard money and that a full-time temporary position is funded through auxiliary enterprises and grant [soft] monies.
Mrs. Hill inquired why the decision was made to move these positions from full-time permanent to full-time temporary positions.

Dr. Stephenson explained that hi an attempt to bring the Plant City Campus budget in line, staff felt that it was important that the Environmental Studies Program be run as a separate cost center that actually generates the revenue to pay their salaries, just like The Corporate Training Center [TCTC] is attempting to accomplish. She indicated that the program must ultimately become fully self-supporting. She explained that part of the strategy at the Plant City Campus was to add two new full-time faculty positions with the funds that were freed up with these three Program Biologist positions. Dr. Stephenson advised that she will provide the Board with a full report on this reclassification decision.

Dr. Felix Haynes, the Plant City Campus President, explained that staff has been reviewing the campus’ faculty position needs for approximately two. Dr. Haynes reminded the Board that the Institute of Florida Studies is a community service program, not an FTE generated function and the College does not receive state funding for the program.

4.03 Ms. Beverly Mueller, the Brandon Campus Bookstore Supervisor, addressed the Board and expressed her colleagues’ and her concerns regarding the Bookstore outsourcing and the Request for Proposal for same.
4.04 Ms. Leann Horwood, the Dale Mabry Campus Bookstore Textbook Supervisor, addressed the Board and expressed her concerns regarding the status of her employment, retirement, health insurance and especially what will happen to the students should the Bookstore be

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FLORIDA COMMISSION ON HUMAN REL. and EEOC
State or iocalAenc); if any
NAME (Indicate Mr., Ms.. Mrs.,1 HDWE TELEFIE C

Mrs. Miriam N. Del Rio
STREET ADDRESS DITY, srr-:
501 Raoid Falls Dr.. Brandon. FL 5Z C72 57
NAMED IS THE EMPLOYER, LABOR ORGANIZAIDS, EMPLDVUET AGECV APPE:DESH:P CCWWITTEE,
STATE OR LOCAL GOVERNMENT AGENCY WHO DIScIMINAED A3AINST E ufc,- ;:
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STREET ADDRESS CITY, STATE AND ZIP CODE DOUNTY
39 Columbia Drive, Tampa, FL 33606 057
NAME TELEPHONE NUMBER (:rc;ude .4rea Code,
STREET ADDRESS CITY, STATE AND ZIP CODE COUNTY
CAUSE OF DISCRIMINATION BASED ON (Check appropriate box (es)) DATE DISCRIMINATION TOOK PLACE
EARLIEST LATEST
LZRACE LCOLOR 11SEX LIRELIGION JNATIONAL ORIGIN
RETALIATION LJAQE I:IDISABILITY EJOTHERfSpecify) 12/10/1999 12/21/1999
CONTINUING ACTION
THE PARTICULARS ARE (If additional space is needed, attach extra sheet(s)):

I. Personal Harm
On 12/10/99 I was reassigned to work at the Dale Mabry campus bookstore. Since my reassignment, I have not been allowed to perform my duties as a supervisor, have been subjected to intimidation and harassment by my co—workers, in that I am being constantly watched, not trained on new procedures, given Stock Clerk duties, and excluded from office social functions.

II. Respondent’s Reason for Adverse Action
No reason has been given.

III, Discrimination Statement
I believe I have been discriminated against on the basis nionT origin, Hispanic (Puerto Rican), my sex, Female, and retaltd affls’. for having filed Charge No. 151A00216, in violation of TitlIIft&. Civil Rights Pct of 1964, as amended
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EEOC FORM 5 (ReV. 06/99)

RESPONDENT’S COPY

want this charge tiled with both the EEOC and the state ci local Agency, if any. I will advise the agencies if I change my address or telephone number and cooperate fully with them in the processing of my charge in accordance with their procedures.		NOTARY - (When necessary for State and Local Requirements)
I swear or affirm that I have read the above charge and it is true to the best of ray knowledge, information and	that belief.
I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true		SIGNATURE OF COMPLAINANT
and correct.
	SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN TO BEFORE ME THIS (Month, day and year)	DATE
Date Charging Party (Signature)

JOflfl W. BAKas, Jr.
Attorney and Counselor at Law
201 E. KENNEDY BouLEvARD. SUTrE 400
TAMPA. FLORIDA 33602-5823
TE1EPHoE 813-2284015
FAX 813-228-8208

E-mail jbakasgaol.can
Nc’vember 8, 1999
Maria N. Sorolis
Allen, Norton & Blue
Hyde Park Plaza, Suite 350
324 South Hyde Park Avenue
Tampa, Florida 33606
BY FAX TO 813-253-2006

Re: Miriam Nelly Del Rio

Dear Ms. Sorolis:

The College has ignored Del Rio’s requests regarding the name clearing
hearing and has sought to build a false record concerning the nature of the hearing. Del Rio again rejects such attempts and renews her previous requests.

Sincerely yours,
(John’W. Bakas, Jr.

OFFICE OF TH PRESIDENT
Gwendolyn W Stephenson, Ph.D.

PD. Bx 3 27 P
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December 10, 1999
Mrs. Miriam N. Del Rio
501 Rapid Falls Drive
Brandon, Florida 33511

Dear Mrs. Del Rio:
I have determined that the most recent investigation into the missing funds at the Plant City Campus is not yet complete.

As a result, I have withdrawn my recommendation for your termination from the December Board agenda. I am reimbursing your back pay from October 1, 1999 Comma Needed to the present, No comma: superfluous with interest. Effective Monday, December 13, 1999, you are to report to the Dale Mabry Campus Bookstore and Sarah Emerson for your assignment. In the event you do not report to work on Monday, you need to contact Ms. Emerson accordingly.

/hg

Enclosure (check) cc: Delores Sanford
Marc Gordon
Sarah Emerson
Suzanne Flaig

Communily CoIIege

Sincerely,

President

D.

The People's Right to Know

To: Howard Troxler@sptimes.com, Paul Tash@sptimes.com; letitiastein@sptimes.com

Howard, HCC has shut down my ingoing access to its email system because the administration is pissed that I sent an email around saying that everybody knows that the academic weaklings go into administration and that a few years ago faculty discovered that the HCC greedy-guts were paying themselves overtime NOT to teach. I am not making this up. Check the records.

When a publicly supported institution shuts out a member of the taxpaying public because the administration is in a snit and trashes free speech, then your readers have a right to know. Send somebody over there to see why the Powers of Darkness at HCC have abridged free speech.

lee drury de cesare

Blocked Emails to Stevenson: Rerouted Na, Na, Na

The Powers of Darkness Versus The Minions of the Light:The Struggle Never Ceases



The shutdown of my email when the administration lapsed into a snit about my rhetorical style--or perhaps because I alluded to the past instance when the administration was caught out for paying itself for not teaching-- means my email below to Stevenson didn’t get through. I resend it by an alternate route. How dumb do these GK administration deep thinkers penser que je suis? If you can’t get into town on I-275, you go Dale Mabry. ldd --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dear Dr. Stevenson:

I have not received a telephone response from you from the message I left at your office today. I hope this behavior does not represent your customary level of courtesy to citizens who pay to run the college.

I attach an email that you did not receive because, a GK Deepthroat informed me (see attachment), you and your administrative staff have shut out my emails from the college server. I received no notification of this shut-out; I got no rationale for it. Had the GK Deepthroat not informed me via mail, I would have not known of this stealth administration trick.

This secret shut-down was neither courageous nor courteous. My mother would say that people who performed such sneak shutdown and didn’t have manners sufficient to tell me about it were raised in a barn.

To my mother's rebuke, I add add they didn't have the courage to act in public. I have always maintained to those at HCC--which is nearly everybody--who say they can't speak out against administration skullduggery that they attributed to the GK poltroons qualities they lacked. Cowards sneak around trying to knife a person in the back; brave people stand out front and speak and act for all the world to see. Up-front people have guts; sneaks don't.

In this reforwarded email, I asked that you direct your attention to my list of items for public information. Although you apparently believe you can shut down a former faculty member’s free speech and a citizen’s email access to a publicly supported institution, you cannot violate the Florida open-records law that says a citizen is entitled to public information and that the penalty for denying it is severe. Your school lawyer should be able to outline that penalty.

I have never been a felon, so that rationale won’t wash for denying me this requested public information on that score. I have merely sent a few crisp public messages about the GK administration, and you and your administration hangers-on object to the sentiments in those messages, so you shut down my email. Pinochet would have done also--the dictator who had goons kill thousands of the Disappeared--mostly young people--in Chile because he didn't like what they were saying. Dictators always try to shut up the opposition. Sometimes these appear on the public payrolls of a community college even in the United States as is now the case.

If a citizen tells the truth about how the HCC administration operates in disregard for the whole college family and principally for the convenience and profit of the GK myrmidons, GK placeholders aren’t tough enough to take the truth and shut down the college email of the citizen to avenge their pout.

Ms. Dial of the Division of Community Colleges told me she called HCC and determined that the people who can give me a rationale for this unprecedented shut down of a member of the public’s email access to a public institution are College Attorney, Martha Kohler (?). and head of Instructional Resources, Mr. Judd.

I request the individual rationales authored by these two be in writing, sent to my address below so that I can ask a couple of First-Amendment attorneys and the ACLU for review. Also as public information, I request the college attorney to cite from the Board policy manual the section that defines the level of access that the college grants the public and what restrictions the administration propaganda minions may impose of free speech in this activity.

I want to know how many times the college has performed this email extirpation against other members of the public. Those data are public information. I ask that the college attorney give me the Florida statute’s citation dealing with shutting off email for a member of the public whose communications—few in number since my retirement seven years ago—contained no profanity or expletives and were couched in Standard English.

All of these conversations shall appear on my HCCDeepthroat.blogspot.com blog. I mounted it to feature the commentary that accompanies this extraordinary attempt of HCC’s administration to abrogate free speech and besmear academic freedom. I find it an obtuse and clumsy gesture to a citizen of the tax-paying public and a 28-year former professor of English who retired in good standing.

Fortunately, members of HCC who dare to do so can comment on the blog. There are places to do so, and the HCC quidnuncs can't determine from whence came the comments.

A copy of the person’s snail mail identifying him- or herself as GK Contact, who alerted me to the email shutdown that the college administration lacked the courtesy or public-relations aplomb to perform, appears in my blog along with other communication regarding this situation.

I infer the GK Deepthroat message came to me snail mail because of the ubiquitous fear and timidity that characterizes the the college family in its dealing with what it fears will be administration thuggery and retaliation.

I never believed these fears but believed instead that the administration consisted of a bevy of poltroons whose idea of payback is such as this: sneaky shutting off a person's emails and then skulking away bereft the guts to inform the person. What a disgrace that we taxpayers must subsidize such unlovely cowardice with the bloated salaries that the GK deadwood flatters the Board into granting--although my screaming about the GK administration's paying itself from not teaching got shut down when I was still on the scene. Score one for The Minions of the Light.

Pray assemble the public information that I have requested for me to review. I await your alerting me to its being ready. I understand that the winsome Donna is proctor for this procedure. I shall be enchanted to observe her in this role.


http://www.HCC Deepthroat.blog.spot.com.

Respectfully,

Lee Drury De Cesare
15316 Gulf Boulevard 802
Madeira Beach, FL 33708
tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com
C: Howard Troxler
Paul Tash
Patrick Manteiga
Senator Les Miller
Senator Arthenia Joyner
Rep. Mike Scionti Jr.
J. David Armstrong, Jr. /Ms. Dial -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.HCCDEEPTHROAT.blogspot.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dr. Stevenson:

I attach an email that I received from an anonymous GK Deep Throat a few days ago. Had I not got this email, I would not have known that the administration had gone into a tizzy and blocked my emails into the college.

Now isn’t that pretty childish of the administration? Are its minions so insecure that they can’t withstand an email from a former faculty member without going to Code Z? These victims of the fantods must be in desperate straits in the sophistication and courage departments.

I am glad nobody can trace this Deepthroat mail. I am sure my daring Deepthroat is right about retaliation for his or her speaking out. The administration will be vicious to Deepthroat. It will shut down the whistleblower's email too.

Everybody assures me that there was hope that your presidency would dilute the pathology at HCC. I infer that its not having done so to be the case, more's the pity. There’s something about the effluvium that emanates from the corridors of Gordon Keller that afflicts the inmates hunkered down there and messes up their synapses by flatlining their power to think--never robust, to be sure. Doubtless some body-snatching phenomenon that the DM Science faculty is working to untangle has been afoot for years.

Meanwhile, the stench over GK's redoubt is terrible.

I had forgotten all about GK and its bush-league Powers of Darkness in retirement. I needlepoint, reread the novels of James, go to the opera, and talk to the seagulls where I live on the Gulf of Mexico.

Darn! Now I have to strap on my Valkyrie armor again and hack my way via keyboard once more into the breach. The sea gulls are wroth at this interruption of our chat. But I can hit the ground running in resumption of fighting crime at HCC.

I was x-chromosome James Bond on the faculty for twenty-eight years. Nobody will dispute this statement. I leafleted GK with corrective memos almost daily, and nobody there would answer the phone when I called. The administration legal gun was always threatening that he was going to sue me, which circumstance brought offers of pro bono defenders of the First Amendment from the legal knighthood. You may sue a person for missives written in Standard English telling the truth, but the judge will laugh in your face.

http://www.HCCDEEPTHROAT.blogspot.com

I was hit woman for all those years in-house and will be better at the chore now with outside vantage that includes the powers of a citizen to buttress me. In terms of the shutting me out of the HCC email system, I am sure you know that academic freedom and Constitutional free speech obtain at HCC—at least its pretense. If not, the college would become laughing stock of the educations world.

Ms. Allen is, I infer, is probably the one that my email chiefly rattled. As I recollect, she is a second-tier administrator and comes from outside the academic world to HCC from the field of commerce, hence may not have a capacious understanding of the history, reach, and generosity of academic freedom in institutions of higher learning. I heard a rumor that her previous employment was cashier at an Ace Hardware store, but I consider that information apocryphal. I trust any competent academics who may have wandered in from the outback campuses to educate the lass as needed.

And I doubt that the Board has approved this Operation Shut Down of Free Speech. A tax-supported institution should not shut out the people who pay the bills merely because citizen comment annoys unsophisticated administration recipients who may not relish citizen commentary but who scoop up nonstop and augment the bloated salaries we citizens pay them. The Board is the governor’s appointees and thus connects to political reality that the administration does not comprehend.

I have couched in Standard English my communications to HCC with no instances of profanity or what my grandchildren refer to as "potty language." My messages also contained no grammar or punctuation errors, a virtue which I cannot attribute to the communications emitting from Gordon Keller that I reviewed over my years at HCC as English professor. People used to slip illiterate GK emails under my door with the message scrawled in handwriting, "Lee, you've got to do something about this!" I infer that baleful situation still obtains.

http://www.HCCDEEPTHROAT.blogspot.com

If outside legal comment be needed to buttress free speech and the robust standing of the First Amendment at HCC, I am sure that a letter from you to the Florida Attorney General for an opinion would answer the question. All you have to ask is "Dear Attorney General: Is it ok for the GK hobbledehoys to shut down the email of a pesky citizen and former English professor whose opinion we don't like? Pinochet is our role model, and he died of old age, never punished for anything, including mass murder, never mind shutting up the opposition by hook or by crook."

The federal grants the college enjoys would probably offer elucidation on citizen rights to comment to the college without the tech department's shutting down the emails because a few fragile souls have not yet reached professional maturity. How can citizens complain, say, of your violating Title IX if they can’t get through the mainframe? And does SACs yet know of this odd outbreak of suppression of free speech at the behest of GK?

Meanwhile, here's my list of public information under the Sunshine law. The Board’s policy statements include this citizen right. A citizen does not have to explain why she wants them or to grovel in the request to obtain them in a timely fashion. A citizen gets them no questions asked. I request individual rationales authored by these two cited by the Community Colleges Association be in writing, sent to my address below so that I can ask a couple of First-Amendment attorneys and the ACLU for review.

Also as public information, I request the college attorney to cite from the Board policy manual the section that defines the level of access that the college grants the public and what restrictions the administration propaganda minions may impose of free speech in this activity. Public Information: A copy of all communication on the subject of my e-mail's odyssey that occasioned the shutdown of my email into the college; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A copy of the section of the Florida statutes that deals with mode of citizen input to a tax-supported educational institution and restrictions of content of input; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Citation from the Board policy manual the level of access that the college grants the public and what restrictions the administration propaganda minions may impose of free speech in this activity; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The number of times and the names of the persons against whom the GK minions have executed an email shutout in the past; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A copy of any opinion that the college obtains from the Attorney General of the state of Florida on this issue as it applies to public institution Hillsborough Community College’s shutting out a citizen’s emails; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The name of the person who heads OTT--referred to in the Deep Throat message and who, I infer, is the head of Technology Department; I would like to review this person's employment folder as well; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A narrative of your participation in the shutting down of my email access. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A copy of the Board’s directive on my email issue; I assume such a extreme step needs Board approval; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Florida statute citation dealing with shutting off email for a member of the public; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The names and email addresses of the College Board member, with the chair identified as such. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A copy of the most recent SACS assessment of the college; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A list of all Federal grants enjoyed by the college. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.HCCDEEPTHROAT.blogspot.com

I trust that my GK Deepthroat, whose remarks I attach, erred in saying the college does not observe the Sunshine Law. The law enforces serious penalties for any person such as those connected with HCC who violate it by refusing to provide a citizen with public information such as that requested by me.

It occurs to me that this incident might make a good article for me to submit to college journals on speculation for publication. I doubt that many community colleges have been obtuse enough or afflicted with administrators’ suffering personality aberrations sufficient to shut down electronic free speech. This article would make lively reading, and the academic world is always curious about primitive thinking in its midst. Such data make lively derisive colloquy in the Faculty Lounge, cafeteria, halls, and mop closets.

I haven't had contact with HCC in several years. This Deepthroat distress message throws me right back into the heat of the battles that I participated in during my years at HCC in the long-running Faculty- Administration agon.

Memories, memories: My glory day was convincing enough faculty when I was president of the Faculty Union to picket Gordon Keller during a Board meeting because Dr. Shanberg wouldn't file an Affirmative Action Plan.

Dr. Shanberg stomped out of the Board meeting and shouldered his way amidst us faculty who outside in picket mode. We faculty had to shuffle our footing, shift our picket signs to opposite shoulders, make way for him, and cease interviews with the TV stations so that we could hear the Shanberg oration. The then-president of HCC yelled at me, "All right, De Cesare! [POTTY LANGUAGE (g--dd--n it!)] You'll get your [POTTY LANGUAGE (g--dd—n)] Affirmative Action Plan!"

See, I said the administration always buckled to faculty push-back.

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The picketing proved lively and set precedent at HCC for faculty fortitude. Fun was had by all, and the boundaries of free expression and academic freedom gained new luster in the GK parking lot. Never has the First Amendment had such a sprightly airing at HCC before or since. That glorious event represented one of the college's signal days. History will record so.

I mount a new blog--the third in my series--for an HCC conversation. I shall feature on the blog HCCDEEPTHROAT.blogspot.com subsequent developments on this email shutdown or other diverting matters that pop up.

I am particularly interested in the last SACS review of the college. SACS Chair G. David Armstrong, Jr. will want the hyperlink to the HCCDEEPTHROAT site so as to file the data recorded in the HCC file for SACS’s next accreditation review of HCC.

I want to comfort any of the faculty, staff, or service proletariat at HCC that GK's reputation for ability to wipe out anybody with the flick of its wrist is utter flapdoodle. It didn't wipe me out in spite of its best efforts, and I did not wait until tenure to protest evil’s wafting from GK as I scented it between classes coming from the Auschwitz-style flue pipes’ adorning the roof.

My first fight with GK came weeks after my hiring and long before I earned tenure. It concerned the administration’s not giving maids the same salary as janitors because--now listen to this--"Janitors have to climb up on ladders." I hollered Title VII, and GK buckled.

My next fight was on academic freedom. There was no Black writer in my English-department reader, so I added some handouts from Soul on Ice as supplement. Plant City Board Member Hilman Bowden hauled me before the Board because of "vulgarity" in the essays, not because of Plant City racism, of course.

But I and the Minions of Light survived that attempt at crucifixion and laughed to fight another day.

Hilman Bowden almost choked me to death hugging me at the Plant City Strawberry Festival when I recently saw him there. Standing up to GK Wizard-of-Oz power will not only make you strong; it will also make you popular.

No GK Lucco Brazzi has ever killed any faculty, staff, or service-employee proletariat. And a GK Lucco never will. One should just hold a cross before him if a Le Lucco semblable approaches in the guise of Rene Villa or Leo Diaz.

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The administration huffs and puffs and then hunkers in the GK bunker, peeping out the blinds to see if the Faculty Revolution is advancing down Bayshore, over the bridge, and menacing the GK redoubt with aged faculty warriors Richard Long, Eric Joost, and Walt Ellis at the head of it troops. These Three academic King Lear Mousequeteers shall brandish their pikes and belt out The Marseilles.

lee drury de cesare

PS: Since I don't see the Board names and emails on the Web site readily accessible as I was requesting even as I headed out the door into retirement from HCC, please do me the kindness to forward this message to all Board members. And please put those Board names and emails on the Web page. We citizens have a right and a duty to share our views with these representatives for oversight for citizens for the governor’s convenience. I bet they all want to hear from us. The Board always treats faculty with particular courtesy has been my experience. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.HCCDEEPTHROAT.blogspot.com