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knuckle-heaps AnP OfyLENT
. SET DESlCrNS WHICH
COULP RIVAL A
An audit by the Texas A&M
versity System led to an indict®
Pradhan in Feb. 1998, accusing
diverting more than $100,
bank accounts.
Pradhan said the investigation'
only after his outspokenness
racial harassment, diversity, am
tenure review. He claims tha
Sparks, a federal judge in Austin,
that A&M proceeded illegally wta
was suspended, and Pradhan wasi
mediately reinstated after having!
on leave with pay.
Pradhan said he simply wantsi
letl alone. He said the University!
brought five criminal chargesagains
in the past two years.
“They are squeezing blood om
stone,” Pradhan said.
Pradhan said the Southern attitiss
faculty, staff and administration isoR
the driving forces behind the Univers
discriminating harassment against
nority staff members.
“1 don’t think my story is unique.'
han said. “There have been manycastsl
mine mine just got too much prei'
Pradhan believes false accuse
were made against him based entire;:
his ethnicity. He sent an e-mail mess
600 faculty members in Oct 1996.1#:
to form a labor union for A&Mprofe
“Within 24 hours, the vice chance
of Texas A&M began an intense^
hunt to find accusations against Ps
han,” said Charles Orsbum, Pradk
hos
modekn aui2.
SHOvIS in fgKtfs
OF PATPONIIINO-.
PG0rR.fi MTlON.
The serfaonS also heavily
ON the congregation,
which is Basically comprised
OF AN EASILY SWAVEO FLOCK
fHEep ready to prof
^ThE Floor IN C0LTi6
^CSTACY , PRAlSlNCr
HALLELUAH ANp
OTHER SUCH
KJON SENSE
l louston attorney, in a Jan. 21, I99S6i that would do
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he Big 12 co
women’s swir
This accoi
ending Big 11
Jniversity of
“It used to
Then there's the preacher...
EETWEEn damning everyone
To HELL ANP SIMULTANEOUSLY
spewing THE RHETORIC OF
UNCONDITIONAL ldvB, he,
reasons that since g-od'
IS THE very Source
OF MONEY, HIS
Audience should
; HAPPILY RETURN THE I?
^LIFE SAVINGS To XT'S
'rightful owneK.
SoivvEHOuJ, T CANT HELP
Bur feel we're missing
A CRUCIAL ElEMEhT
\Vj ALL OP THIS..'.
oh! WE CAN'T FoPCrET
AOour THAT WICKED HEATHEN^
SPORTING HER RIDICULOUS Pink HAIR
weave while Shamelessly crying
RIVERS OF Slack MASCARA ALL
.IN A PATHETIC ATTcMPT To IWCITE;
Sympathy from the
PU&L1 c
talion article.
Pradhan said two other Unives
professors — Dr. Richard WyskandB
Ignatio RtxJriguez — felt it was imp
live to resign from their positions at At)
and continue their work elsewhere.
Wysk is now a professor at Penniy
vania State University’s Department oft
dustrial and Manufacturing Engineers
Rodriguez is employed by Princetf
University’s Department of Civil and b
vironrnental Engineering. Rcxinguezar:
since he left A&M, he does not care to®
merit on what was still takingplacetee.
Pradhan said basic rights ms vio
lated throughout the duration otfeac
cusations and litigation. He cla»\i
rights to due process were violated
that he was subjected to illegal seat
and seizure.
On Oct. 28, 1996, Pradhan wasi
Washington D.C. at an academic conft
ence. His computer, computer recos
and files were seized from his office.
Pradhan said he was arrested
home on Dec. 15, 1999 and no M
rights were read.
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