Terri Patraw Blog #4
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Terri Patraw Blog #4

Terri Patraw: Retaliation For Reporting NCAA Violations

President Milton Glick:

         
After my communications of July 6, 2009 (Blog #5) and August 1, 2009 (Blog #5) to the Regents, Bart Patterson, NSHE’s Chief Counsel, advised that I write you regarding releasing "the ban" from the public campus. I have provided the Regents facts and legal authorities that the "ban" that you imposed is unconstitutional and retaliatory.

       
Patterson led the NSHE/UNR legal teams that were accused by a District Court Judge of "
attempting to interfere with" the petition to summon a grand jury on public corruption at UNR. As the front person in the interference efforts, Patterson is aware that the names of those alleged to abuse the public trust are a matter of public record; a record that he fought to unseal.

   
As to the campus ban, Patterson has recognized that the two NSHE codes (6.5 and 6.18) previously cited to justify the ban do not allow for such authorization. This is thus a concession by your system counsel that you have no authority under NSHE code to ban a citizen from campus.

     
Instead, Patterson offers legal authority that he says "demonstrate that a former employee does not have an unfettered right to access the campus".  Notice that Patterson did not say that the law allows you to ban me ... because it does not.
      
I have never argued that I have an "unfettered right" to access campus. I have the same right to access campus as any other member of the public.  In fact, Patterson's legal research has strengthened my position that you had and have no authority to ban me. For Patterson's contribution, I am most appreciative.
       
I have not engaged in any prohibitive conduct (
unless you are adverse to winning championships and qualifying for NCAA Tournaments).  The manufactured evidence used to support the ban defeated itself with its embarrassing contradictions and four premeditated attempts. These attempts are documented in the attachment to my July 6, 2009 letter to the Regents.  This is clear evidence of pretext and proof that you had no legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason. Had you reviewed and relied on this manufactured evidence to support the ban you would have noticed the glaring contradictions in these "stories".


This falsification of evidence was led by the same UNR attorneys who were caught falsifying my personnel evaluations...twice. Certainly General Counsel Mary Dugan is required to inform you of these illegal machinations out of her office. 
Student-athletes said they were solicited to falsify evidenceEmail and phone records provide direct evidence of this solicitation.

      
I have brought forth direct evidence the ban was premeditated and manufactured by the UNR administration and General Counsel’s office in retaliation for my protected speech.

       
Additional direct evidence of UNR retaliation for my Title IX and NCAA reports: 

1) Athletic Director Cary Groth admitted under oath she terminated me because of my Title IX complaints


2) UNR attorneys admitted in writing that I was retaliated against financially by UNR because I complained about Title IX and NCAA infractions


3) Your ban letter arrived, not so coincidentally, only days after I met with you in October 2007 to inform you that I would be contacting the NCAA to inform them of major violations of NCAA rules under your leadership

   
Based on your retention of and $100,000 raise for Basketball Coach Mark Fox after his repeated destruction of UNR property you condone destructive behavior. Your retention of basketball player Brandon Fields after his physical abuse of a female student athlete indicates you also are accepting of violence against women.  


Your retention of Golf Coach Rich Merritt after
he hit a student-athletelied and misled the athletic administration, and violated numerous NCAA rules renders further evidence that physical violence and destruction of property is a non-factor in your reasoning for banning individuals from campus. 


Your protection of these males is congruent with AD Groth's confessed retaliation for opposing discrimination against female student-athletes; thus advancing my claims of gender discrimination on the UNR campus.

The case law cited by the top legal authority in the system (Patterson) is evidence that you have violated the public trust and campus safety by not banning these individuals for their documented violence against women, students, and facilities. This is also consistent with your acceptance of the degradation of women and distribution of pornography within the UNRPD.
     
Patterson’s letter and cited cases are a concession by your system counsel that you have no authority under law (or code) to ban me from campus.

    
You are thus in violation of NSHE Code and in violation of the law (See NRS 197.200). 

You also took the liberty to ban me from other university campuses; adding further credence to the absurdity, and lack of legal authority, of your persona non grata letter.  Patterson failed to cite case law granting you such grandiose power.   
 
 

    
By now you know I am a champion for my cause and for the student-athletes. I respectfully ask that you respond directly to me. I am not interested in a letter from any attorney in your system as they are central figures in the criminal allegations pertaining to the grand jury hearing.  Relying on their advice has proven less than beneficial to UNR and to your presidency.

 


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