Rattler Nation has learned that faculty who tried to attend Friday's Board of Trustee meeting taking place by phone and being staged from the President's Conference Room in Lee Hall were greeted by FAMU Police Officers who tried to deny their entrance. Nevermind, that it was a public meeting and those who were trying to attend were members of the FAMU faculty. In the end, the faculty stood their ground, and quoted chapter and verse of Florida law. After becoming REAL loud, 10 members of the group were finally allowed to enter the meeting.
You have got to be JOKING!!!
ReplyDeleteDang, this is crazy, but doesn't surprise me in the least, especially after Castell had law enforcement 5 deep at the June 29 BOT.
ReplyDeleteYou should have seen how law enforcement almost bum rushed Bill Tucker during the public comments section.
Yes child, sad to say, this actually happened. I've never seen such mistreatment of the faculty in my life.
ReplyDeleteThis after she turned off the elevator to the 4th floor of Lee Hall.
I bet the police officers were embarassed to be placed into that situation. Many of them are loyal Rattlers who received their college degrees from this institution. This is a damned shame.
ReplyDeleteAnd, we need to examine these so call professionals wanting to be hired as Deans under this already bizzare administration. Crazy is the better word for the Castelle & Co. Do these Education, Nursing and now SBI Deans know what is really going on at FAMU?
ReplyDeleteWhere are both Freds? Neither one did this much damage.
ReplyDeleteYou know Castell is fond of sharing her experiences during the "Civil Rights movement."
ReplyDeleteI am beginning to wonder if she really knew what that movement was/is about.
If she really did, would shebe using these NAZI Gestapo tactics to control the NEGROES.
This is beyond ignorant.
Alberto Fujimori has taken over famu
ReplyDeleteHow dare this unqualified, conniving, egomaniacal, JUCO administrator treat FAMU's faculty like garbarge!
ReplyDeleteWe should have been up in arms when Bryant fired Phyllis Gray-Ray, who brought in over $100 million in research contracts and grants. And there should have been massive unrest when Bryant replaced Larry Robinson, a senior university administrator with a Ph.D. in Nuclear Chemistry, with Debra Austin, JUCO administrator with an Ed.D.
We are not a damned, low-brow community college!
Give it back castell give back the 85k!
ReplyDeleteOther impersonators include:
ReplyDeleteElizabeth McBride as a lawyer
Altha Manning as an administrator
Janie Greenleaf as a Personnel Director.
They cops need to haul them all away at the same time.
All I can say is that this a sad state of affairs at my beloved alma mater.
ReplyDeleteOh Ohhh Deep in my heart,
ReplyDeleteI do believe -
Thaat
We shall overcome some day.
It's time to organize a mass demonstration and march on Lee Hall
Don't be scaarred #@*@ *#!!!
Let's get to it!!!!
Signed
Angela Davis (reincarnated)
Let me know when and where.This ish has got to stop. Is there anyone able to stop the madness!! Do we need to start a letter writing campaign? Email? Phone? Something must be done. How about everyone spreading the word that on Friday, July 21,2006, all alumni, students, supporters etc...call the switchboard en masse. We need to call from 8 am to 5 pm, from wherever in the country or the world we are located. How about it RattlerNation? Spread the word!
ReplyDeleteif this incident doesn't imply guilt, i don't know what the heck would... i'd come from SC for that march.
ReplyDeleteYou forgot some other impersonators. Rufus Little for a VP for Complaince (can you say bank fraud), Dunn for Fiance VP and Tromly for Inspector General (can he evan pass the CPA?)
ReplyDeleteOk y'all we need to get as many people participating in protesting in the way of march as soon as possible. SERIOUSLY- who will take up the gauntlet against this witch? HIt me up on email bernpowell@aim.com
ReplyDeleteCould it be
ReplyDelete1) the public had access via the call in no.
2) it was an emergency meeting with a set agenda and input only from board members, therefore listening in would accommodate the public access and would also prevent input (if listening via telephonic, then can't chime in)
and
3)the conference room was too small to accommodate a large number of people and to make it fair or to prevent any notion of selectivity in deciding who enters, simply don't prevent anyone other than those involved in the telephonic conference to enter?
Reasonable view point? Rational decisionmaking? A neutral view? I'm sure commentators will indicate that this commentator must be attached to a particular side.
if that is true anonymous 7/18/2006 6:48 PM. Do you think police force is necessary. What type of teamwork/morale is she building with actions as such!
ReplyDeleteThe conference room was less than 1/3 full. There were plenty of seats to accomodate the faculty group in the staging of this public meeting. Even after the 10 were FINALLY allowed in the room was still half empty.
ReplyDeleteTo anonymous 11:48 am
ReplyDeleteTromly lacks the educational requirements to even sit for the CPA, much less pass it.
At 7/18/2006 6:48 PM
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said...
Could it be
1) the public had access via the call in no.
2) it was an emergency meeting ...
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Here's another thought:
Could it be that while listening in on the phone or radio:
1) you cannot tell who is sitting silently in the room passing notes to the speakers;
2) you cannot see the notes, facial expressions, hand signals, or winks and nods that are passed among the trustees; and,
3) you cannot tell when people cover the phone with their hand and discuss their answers before speaking for the record?
Public meetings are one of the few checks that citizens have against unfettered and uncontrolled powermongering. That they have to be defended at all, let alone on a university campus, speaks volumes about the tragic situation at FAMU.
Anonymous said...7/18/2006 6:48 PM
ReplyDeleteCould it be that the faculty knew the following:
286.011 Public meetings and records; public inspection; criminal and civil penalties.--
(1) All meetings of any board or commission of any state agency at which official acts are to be taken are declared to be public meetings open to the public at all times, and no resolution, rule, or formal action shall be considered binding except as taken or made at such meeting. The board or commission must provide reasonable notice of all such meetings.
(3)(a) Any public officer (including Castell Bryant) who violates any provision of this section is guilty of a noncriminal infraction, punishable by fine not exceeding $500.
(b) Any person who is a member of a board or commission or of any state agency or authority of any county, municipal corporation, or political subdivision who knowingly violates the provisions of this section by attending a meeting not held in accordance with the provisions hereof is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.
(6) All persons subject to subsection (1) are prohibited from holding meetings at any facility or location which discriminates on the basis of sex, age, race, creed, color, origin, or economic status or which operates in such a manner as to unreasonably restrict public access to such a facility.
Anonymous said...7/19/2006 4:46 AM,
ReplyDelete(4) A person who has been convicted of a designated misdemeanor may be sentenced as follows:
(b) For a misdemeanor of the second degree, by a definite term of imprisonment not exceeding 60 days.
This BOT better WAKE-UP and watch out. Not one of these board members looks like they can survive one day behind the brick wall.
I know the one thing we did right,
ReplyDeletewas the day was started to fight!
Keep your eyes on the prize,
Hold on; hold on!