IN HAEC VERBA: UF Levin College of Law Environmental and Land Use Planning (ELUPL) LLM program discriminates against older applicants and retaliates against protected activity

Dear Ms. Sikes, Dean Flournoy, Dean Jerry and President Machen:

1. Each application contains a birthdate.  

2. Each applicant provides a c.v. 

3. UF has the data.  UF ignored my request for a week.  Then UF made a knowing material false statement that it does not have the data on LL.M. graduates' ages.

4. It is a simple request.   Please respond with data today.

5. Derision and denial are unhelpful.   Ms. Sikes, your rudely laughing at me twice on the telephone this morning -- and UF evading and evading this simple request -- is pregnant with the admission that older applicants are not welcome at the University of Florida Levin College of Law.  

6. There is a prima facie case of age discrimination by the Levin College of Law, based upon statistical evidence gleaned from the photographs and biographies of your graduates. Yet you adamantly refuse to provide those statistics because they would be helpful to me.  Your protestations about not having the data are, at best, facetious.  They are an admission of guilt.

7. Please cease and desist from further avoidance, evasion, disrespect, retaliation and discrimination.  

8. Will UF agree to an interview?

9. Will UF agree to open records mediation by the State Attorney General's office?

10. I am still waiting for retiring UF President Machen and retiring Law School Dean Jerry to respond to my May 15, 2014 E-mail on your UF mailroom losing letters of recommendation, including those from New York Times Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Walt Bogdanich, who sent an original and two copies by regular mail, which disappeared.  The lack of interest  by Dean Jerry and President Machen and their offices speaks volumes -- UF is insouciant about violations of my civil rights. UF  does not give a fig that several letters of recommendation were lost over the years.  For a publicly funded land grant university to act this way is a stench in the nostrils of the Nation.  

11. The U.S. Department of Education has my June 21, 2014 age and disability discrimination and retaliation complaint and will be in contact with you soon.Thank you.

WIth kindest regards, I am,

Sincerely yours,

Ed Slavin

904-377-4998

-----Original Message-----
From: Sikes, Janine <jysikes@UFL.EDU>
To: Ed Slavin <easlavin@aol.com>
Sent: Tue, Jun 24, 2014 4:02 pm
Subject: RE: UF ELUPL LLM program -- ages of the applicants, admittees and some 20 graduates since program was founded circa 2008

Mr. Slavin:

As I mentioned before, there are no college records responsive to your request. Institutional Research compiles universitywide age data which can be found in Table I-5 here: http://www.ir.ufl.edu/factbook/enroll.htm.

Sincerely,

Janine Sikes

Assistant Vice President

Media Relations and Public Affairs

University of Florida

Office: 352-846-3903

Cell: 352-214-6807

jysikes@ufl.edu

From: Ed Slavin [mailto:easlavin@aol.com]

Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 1:50 PM
To: easlavin@aol.com
Subject: Re: UF ELUPL LLM program -- ages of the applicants, admittees and some 20 graduates since program was founded circa 2008

You provide demographic data to US Department of Education, correct?

On Jun 24, 2014, at 10:38 AM, easlavin@aol.com wrote:

Dear Ms. Sikes:

Your laughter on the telephone is neither responsive nor respectful.  Please have the General Counsel's office call me concerning your attempt to avoid and evade this simple request, and about the lack of any response concerning loss of letters from New York Times reporter Walt Bogdanich, et al.

Thank you.

With kindest regards, I am,

Sincerely yours,

Ed Slavin

904-377-4998

-----Original Message-----
From: Sikes, Janine <jysikes@UFL.EDU>
To: easlavin <easlavin@aol.com>
Sent: Tue, Jun 24, 2014 9:38 am
Subject: FW: UF ELUPL LLM program -- ages of the applicants, admittees and some 20 graduates since program was founded circa 2008

Dear Mr. Slavin:

Your public records request was forwarded to me for handling. The college does not track or compile that information and therefore there is no record responsive to your request.

Sincerely,

Janine Sikes

Assistant Vice President

Media Relations and Public Affairs

University of Florida

Office: 352-846-3903

Cell: 352-214-6807

jysikes@ufl.edu

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From: easlavin@aol.com [easlavin@aol.com]
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2014 1:40 PM
To: Klein,Christine Ann
Subject: UF ELUPL LLM program -- ages of the applicants, admittees and some 20 graduates since program was founded circa 2008

Please send data.  Thank you.