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From: "John" (J.E.B.Midgley@newcastle.ac.uk) To: "Brian Daugherty" (brian_daugherty@hotmail.com) Fuck off and get on with your sad little life. Accept the fact that you're crap and stop bothering Newcastle Uni. Get a fucking hobby or something..... |
Kate Adie has publicized Newcastle University for a considerably long time, and is even celebrated today by a bust on campus. I have written to here more than once, but no reply has been received. I think it is not unfair to include this information here, given that she also tries to put across a reputation for speaking out about injustice elsewhere (but not where it involves her personally, I probably tend to think).
After making an appeal for any assistance from former mathematics students shown on the listings of the Newcastle Alumni site, I was 'ejected' from the Alumni Association. Just like listings on 'Friends Reunited', people put their information online, so they cannot really complain if they receive one email from someone else on the listing (and I was at great pains to point out that I would not be sending any further emails to anyone who did not respond, a rule to which I have kept-I assume you realize that just taking my name off the listings can not stop me from sending further emails, if I had actually intended to do so). Mark Scrimshaw was the head of the Alumni Association at the time. You can read his reply to me
here, where he promises to look into it. No further reply has ever been received from Mr. Scrimshaw despite further attempts on my part.
Mark Scrimshaw is a senior producer and director for BBC North. He has been a strong advocate for regional arts programming, winning BAFTA awards for his cultural documentary work. He is a former Board member and Vice Chair of Northern Arts, and ex-Chair of Live Theatre. From 1997 to 2002 he was Vice Chair of Her Majesty's Prison Durham Board of Visitors.
Olivia Grant is the Chair of the Board of Governors of Newcastle University. I have sent her several letters, by recorded delivery which she has received, complaining about the low standards outlined on these pages. Reply came there none.
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I wonder whether you would be interested in knowing about an extraordinary example of deliberate "job and career destruction" of a distinguished academic? One who, although supposedly in a cushy job, never stopped being activist about the problems faced by good academics elsewhere in the system. How was it done? Simple - a slander made by someone who wasn`t an academic or a student or a university employee, but which was seized on by a malicious "colleague" as a heaven-sent opportunity to provoke gossip and harassment, in the full and certain knowledge that they would inflict profound professional and personal damage. On the harassment, did the AUT help? Of course not. The person involved (a model of academic virtues, including probity and the highest standards of professionalism, which are not necessarily productive of popularity) is now considered `unemployable` and treated as a pariah. Is it a coincidence that they were so very gifted, and that and the integrity (eg as an External Examiner) were objects of such hostility? Moreover, everyone hearing and spreading the gossip as `unchallengeable fact` is of course so secretive about where they got it from (and even about these supposed `facts` themselves) that there is no recourse to the laws about libel and slander either. (If you`re a pariah already, there is no GOOD reason not to sue.) Apparently, then, they simultaneously completely believe and repeat these supposed `facts`, but are afraid that they are untrue and may result in successful legal action. An interesting conundrum, for clearthinking persons. Even actually knowing the original sources, then, is no help - because no-one will bear witness to it.
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