Richard "Biff"
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DSU President​
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Goodbye Mr. Lewis
A recording of the meeting where Dr. Joel Lewis was terminated. He had asked if he should bring council, and was assured that it was just a meeting.
Wikipedia Entry - DSU, Controversy - Dr. Joel Lewis firing
I know it's Wikipedia, but you work with what you've got.
In the ensuing public controversy, Dixie administration utilized FERPA laws and coercion of faculty to avert further transparent scrutiny of the actions taken by President Williams and DSU Public Safety Director Don Reid. When Joel Lewis, chair of the DSU Department of History and Political Science, encouraged his students to investigate the story as an alternative mid-term examination in March 2015, he was immediately contacted by Vice-President Bill Christensen and coerced into rescinding the assignment. Despite Lewis' prompt compliance with this request, he was later unilaterally fired without due process by President Williams on August 14, 2015 for giving this assignment. According to emails later released under subpoena to the St. George Justice Court, President Williams instructed Don Reid to threaten criminal charges of witness tampering if Lewis spoke to the media about the termination of his employment.[31]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_State_University#
In the ensuing public controversy, Dixie administration utilized FERPA laws and coercion of faculty to avert further transparent scrutiny of the actions taken by President Williams and DSU Public Safety Director Don Reid. When Joel Lewis, chair of the DSU Department of History and Political Science, encouraged his students to investigate the story as an alternative mid-term examination in March 2015, he was immediately contacted by Vice-President Bill Christensen and coerced into rescinding the assignment. Despite Lewis' prompt compliance with this request, he was later unilaterally fired without due process by President Williams on August 14, 2015 for giving this assignment. According to emails later released under subpoena to the St. George Justice Court, President Williams instructed Don Reid to threaten criminal charges of witness tampering if Lewis spoke to the media about the termination of his employment.[31]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_State_University#
The Other Shoe
In Salt Lake City in late February 2015, as the pressure on him was building, President Williams was given a copy of a petition asking for my reinstatement, which at that point had been signed by over 1200 supporters. He told the alumni member that gave it to him that there would be information coming out about me shortly and that after it came out, she, and anyone who signed that petition, wouldn't want to have anything to do with me.
We have never heard anything more about this.
In a DSU Faculty Senate Executive Committee meeting on April 2, 2015, Faculty Senate President Nate Staheli said, "In his defense, he was informed that something was coming. Whether he should or shouldn't have said it I won't comment on; that's just what he was informed about from legal counsel and those involved in the process."
I'm going to guess that this is when the university and members of the community were doing the full court press on the County Attorney, trying to get him to file child abuse charges against me. Because, as we'll see when I start working on Don Reid - they knew that just getting charges filed against me would ruin my reputation and destroy my career.
Anyway, it's been 18 months and counting, and we're still waiting for that other shoe to drop.
We have never heard anything more about this.
In a DSU Faculty Senate Executive Committee meeting on April 2, 2015, Faculty Senate President Nate Staheli said, "In his defense, he was informed that something was coming. Whether he should or shouldn't have said it I won't comment on; that's just what he was informed about from legal counsel and those involved in the process."
I'm going to guess that this is when the university and members of the community were doing the full court press on the County Attorney, trying to get him to file child abuse charges against me. Because, as we'll see when I start working on Don Reid - they knew that just getting charges filed against me would ruin my reputation and destroy my career.
Anyway, it's been 18 months and counting, and we're still waiting for that other shoe to drop.
Spin A Politician Would Be Proud Of
DSU President Richard "Biff" Williams lies to Zoe Davenport, (my daughter) about meeting with me prior to firing me.
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