JANINE SIKES
At UF, a public relations person, Assistant Vice President JANINE SIKES, just interrupted her vacation to get on her Blackberry and emit illegal orders to a UF lawyer (AMY HAAS) to coverup my simple request of June 16, 2014 for the ages of applicants, admittees and graduates to the UF Environmental and Use Planning Law (ELUPL) program.
See JANINE SIKES' 11:47 AM E-mail, stating inter alia, "Amy: will you respond that we are not required to compile statistical information for him? Otherwise, it will have to wait until I get back next week. Janine
Since when do PR flaks give orders to lawyers to stiff our Florida Open Records law requests?
UF's legendary constitutional law professor Joe Little drafted -- and 3.8 million Floridians adopted -- Article I, Section 24 of our Florida Constitution in 1992 -- our Sunshine and Open Records laws. That was 83%. We, the People, have spoken -- it is constitutional law.
UF and JANINE SIKES brandish contempt for those constitutional rights.
UF presumes to order a lawyer to violate the law. Why?
UF reckons itself above the law.
UF is a liberal state university whose right-wing president, BERNARD MACHEN, publicly endorsed JOHN McCAIN for President in 2008.
UF is a place that refused to admit African-Americans to law and other graduate programs until after lengthy litigation.
UF is a place where age, race and gender discrimination is allegedly rampant.
UF needs to produce the age data that I requested.
No more flummery, dupery and nincompoopery is either desired or required.
The United States Department of Education Office of Civil Rights will investigate UF.
Yes we can!
We shall overcome!
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From: easlavin
To: jysikes
Sent: Mon, Jun 30, 2014 12:04 pm
Subject: Re: UF Levin College of Law Environmental and Land Use Planning (ELUPL) LLM program discriminates against older applicants and retaliates against protected activity
Dear Janine:
1. Respondent UF's Levin College of Law Environmental and Land Use Planning Law (ELUPL) program has the statistics. You are wrong. It won't wait. I have already waited a fortnight. Enough flummery and dupery from UF, please. UF is a land grant institution and federally-funded. Its age discrimination and retaliation is a serious matter. Attempting to deny me student age statistics is so inculpatory.
2. The whole world is watching. How would your E-mail look in The New York Times?
3. Thanks for copying everyone on your E-mail -- it speaks volumes about UF's coverup and retaliatory, discriminatory animus.
4. Enjoy your vacation. I look forward to meeting with you, the Deans and President Machen to resolve this discrimination case.
Thank you again.
WIth kindest regards,
Ed Slavin
www.cleanupcityofstaugustine.blogspot.com
www.staugustgreen.com
904-377-4998
-----Original Message-----
From: Sikes, Janine
To: easlavin
Sent: Mon, Jun 30, 2014 11:47 am
Subject: Re: UF Levin College of Law Environmental and Land Use Planning (ELUPL) LLM program discriminates against older applicants and retaliates against protected activity
Amy: will you respond that we are not required to compile statistical information for him? Otherwise, it will have to wait until I get back next week. Janine
Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
From: easlavin@aol.com
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2014 10:41 AM
To: Sikes, Janine; Flournoy,Alyson Craig; Jerry,Robert H; machen@UFL.EDU
Subject: Re: UF Levin College of Law Environmental and Land Use Planning (ELUPL) LLM program discriminates against older applicants and retaliates against protected activity
Dear Dean Flournoy, Dean Jerry, President Machen and Ms. Sikes:
1. I have still not received any statistical information on age of ELUPL graduates, which I requested on June 16, 2014. Why?
2. Please send all statistical data on age of ELUPL graduates, my application file (including all of the nearly 50 letters of recommendation and my published writing samples and essays), and documents on UF losing letters and on any UF investigation of my civil rights concerns today, to:
Ms. Jammie Randolph
Senior Investigator
U.S. Department of Education
Office for Civil Rights
61 Forsyth Street, Suite 19T10
Atlanta, Georgia 30303
jammie.randolph@ed.gov,
(404) 974-9399 – Direct Line
(404) 974-9471 - Fax
3. Please send me a paper or electronic copy of what you send to the Department of Education Office of Civil RIghts.
Thank you.
We shall overcome.
Thank you.
WIth kindest regards, I am,
Sincerely yours,
Ed Slavin
904-377-4998
-----Original Message-----
From: easlavin
To: jysikes
Sent: Wed, Jun 25, 2014 4:45 pm
Subject: Re: 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. What is total number of ELUPL LLM graduates?
2. How many were 40 years of age or older?
3. Zero, right?
4. Is that so hard to answer?
5. I am glad Ms. Sikes gets to laugh at this -- because UF Levin College of Law won't pass the laugh test or the smell test.
6. This is age discrimination and retaliation.
We shall overcome.
Thank you.
WIth kindest regards, I am,
Sincerely yours,
Ed Slavin
904-377-4998
-----Original Message-----
From: easlavin
To: jysikes
Sent: Tue, Jun 24, 2014 4:39 pm
Subject: UF 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
To: Ed Slavin
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
Cc: Sikes, Janine; @ UR Public Record Requests; Hass,Amy Meyers; Flournoy,Alyson Craig; Klein,Christine Ann; waltbog@nytimes.com; judgelitt10@gmail.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?
Sent from my iPhone
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
To: easlavin
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
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.
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