WyomingOSUAlum
04-23-2008, 08:28 AM
I'm no fan of uo, but this is out of control:
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http://newsok.com/article/3233757/1208950114
Wed April 23, 2008
OU takes messages seriously as Norman man stays in jail
By James S. Tyree
Staff Writer
NORMAN — A Norman man whose alleged actions have boosted police presence this week at the University of Oklahoma remained in Cleveland County jail Tuesday after his bail was set at $1,000.
The accusations
Anderson is accused of distributing fliers throughout campus March 7 that said OU would cease to exist April 21, and of chalking similar messages on campus sidewalks April 2.
Chalkings mentioned several topics, including a so-called "Fear Week” and a takeover of OU. At least one mentioned Virginia Tech, where 32 people were gunned down last year.
Others were more puzzling, like one that read, "Liberty or Death — Hamburgers.”
OU police Sgt. John Bishop testified the messages caused concern because officers couldn't be sure if they were serious or part of a prank.
He said OU police and other university departments received several calls about the messages from students and employees.
How did police respond?
OU police have posted additional plainclothes officers throughout campus since Sunday, Bishop said. He did not say how long the heightened security would last.
Police said Anderson sent an e-mail recently to OUPD asking for help in a "transfer of power. No one needs to get hurt.”
Bishop said if that were true, the reverse also could be true and someone could get hurt.
Bishop said Anderson on April 21, 1994, burst into the OU president's office, jumped on a desk and spray painted a wall. He later pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors and received a six-month suspended sentence.
Bishop said Anderson was taken to Griffin Memorial Hospital in 1996 for an emergency detention when he claimed to be "tripolar.”
But Jenkins said none of the messages threatened specific violent acts, that Anderson was never known to have owned a weapon and that he harmed no one during the 1994 incident.
Jenkins also said there is no proof Anderson wrote all the chalk messages.
http://static.newsok.biz/article/20080423/3233757/anderson.jpg_04-23-2008_BG78G5R.jpg
http://newsok.com/article/3233757/1208950114
Wed April 23, 2008
OU takes messages seriously as Norman man stays in jail
By James S. Tyree
Staff Writer
NORMAN — A Norman man whose alleged actions have boosted police presence this week at the University of Oklahoma remained in Cleveland County jail Tuesday after his bail was set at $1,000.
The accusations
Anderson is accused of distributing fliers throughout campus March 7 that said OU would cease to exist April 21, and of chalking similar messages on campus sidewalks April 2.
Chalkings mentioned several topics, including a so-called "Fear Week” and a takeover of OU. At least one mentioned Virginia Tech, where 32 people were gunned down last year.
Others were more puzzling, like one that read, "Liberty or Death — Hamburgers.”
OU police Sgt. John Bishop testified the messages caused concern because officers couldn't be sure if they were serious or part of a prank.
He said OU police and other university departments received several calls about the messages from students and employees.
How did police respond?
OU police have posted additional plainclothes officers throughout campus since Sunday, Bishop said. He did not say how long the heightened security would last.
Police said Anderson sent an e-mail recently to OUPD asking for help in a "transfer of power. No one needs to get hurt.”
Bishop said if that were true, the reverse also could be true and someone could get hurt.
Bishop said Anderson on April 21, 1994, burst into the OU president's office, jumped on a desk and spray painted a wall. He later pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors and received a six-month suspended sentence.
Bishop said Anderson was taken to Griffin Memorial Hospital in 1996 for an emergency detention when he claimed to be "tripolar.”
But Jenkins said none of the messages threatened specific violent acts, that Anderson was never known to have owned a weapon and that he harmed no one during the 1994 incident.
Jenkins also said there is no proof Anderson wrote all the chalk messages.