I am aware of the cited email. Meredith did not distinguish herself in any way when writing that email.

“If Meridith is really an ogre, she concealed it well. Indeed, she came across as a logical and decent person.”

With all due respect, although she may have come across as a “decent” person, you are apparently forgetting her email response to Roger Copeland’s letter in the Oberlin Review.

https://oberlinreview.org/14086/opinions/gibsons-boycott-denies-due-process/

If you recall, it began “[f]u__ him”

Vulgar Invective is hardly a sign of decency, at least regarding College Deans

The following is published as food for thought only. The content of the comment is unverified. ChaosReader’s comment is consistent with what many are thinking at this point. ed.

From ChaosReader 2:56 PM 2020/02/19
to whistleblower

Foodservice and custodial services are only the first College functions to see replacement by contract services. Landscaping, general labor (on-campus trucking and deliveries), maintenance and repair of the motor pool, and even security are being looked at, too. This is not public knowledge, though.

You constantly mention that the Oberlin BOT has to wise up, stop the nonsense with Gibsons, etc. But it is a powerful sect of the BOT that is controlling it all. It’s not mentioned a lot but Chris Canavan, Chair of the BOT, personally paid the legal fees for the three students arrested in the Gibsons matter. He footed all their legal bills from the start. Dean Raimondo paid for a car service on her personal credit card (though she submitted it for reimbursement later) to take Jonathan Aladin to Columbus to consult with a hot-shot attorney there.

Another College student, Eilish Bryn Spear, was arrested for shoplifting at Gibsons on 10/22/2016, a week or so before the Gibsons Three, but she did not receive any College support for lawyers or advisors or anything. (Ms. Spear is White.)

I cannot be public about things like this, and cannot ask too many pointed questions to gain additional information, because I like and need my job at the moment. I just hope this gives you some food for thought.

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From:whistleblower@oberlinchaos.com 8:03 PM 2020/02/19
to ChaosReader

Thanks for your courageous input, which further confirms what I have been suspecting for some time. I am presuming that you work for the college in some capacity, so I do not envy your having to keep looking the other way for your own good.

I have long suspected that there is a lot of very ugly unrevealed dirt at the BOT level, but there is no legal proof of it at this time. Murder will out, eventually.

I plan to post your comments anonymously after doing some reflecting first.

JD.

On 2020-02-19 15:27, Corky Jung wrote:
> Have you read the bio of the Chair.

Yes, I have, and his bio is most impressive indeed. And thank you for speaking up. I will post your question and my response.

It is unfathomable how someone with Canavan’s fabulous credentials (which conspicuously lack a law degree — a common expectation for someone in his position) could have allowed such colossal incompetence to happen.

Have you read any of the evidence introduced in the Gibson trial? Based on the evidence presented by both sides, how would you, as an impartial juror, have ruled if you had been on the jury?

Just went through your blog. One connection that has been overlooked is that Varner worked for Krislov when he was general counsel at Michigan and she was likely brought from Michigan into her position at Oberlin as a reward for being a loyal trooper. I suspect one could learn a lot about the Oberlin strategies here by looking at their previous lives.

Keep in mind that Michigan is going through its own legal mess now with affirmative action policies and it would not surprise me in the least to see Krislov’s and Varner’s thumbprints all over the planning and execution of those policies.

Also a bit curious as to whether Krislov is mucking up his current institution or has learned to just step back and collect $1M for doing nothing.

yours in the struggle,

Bob