<p>I thought Shirvell seemed mentally unbalanced. He didn’t seem to be processing some of the questions posed to him - maybe that’s just what happens to you when you carry around that much hate.</p>
<p>“Let me just check three more Facebook pages to remind myself how much I detest his firm pecs and the shy yet saucy smile…And, shocking! He seduced that conservative boy, slowing removing his silk tie and his perfectly pressed white shirt…” </p>
<p>The whole business says much more about Shirvell than about the apparently vanilla gay student.</p>
<p>No, Hunt, this topic belongs right here.</p>
<p>My son’s sexual orientation is not a light-hearted cafe topic nor is it a political issue. Topic concerning college students race and religion stay here, so should this.</p>
<p>The last six posts perfectly highlight why this should not be here. The topic has absolutely nothing to do with admission to college, life at college, or issues about a college administration. This is an issue for the state of Michigan that probably has something to do with local state politics and is completely unrelated to this web site. I’m not saying it’s not worth discussing, but surely there is a better site more closely related to the topic which is politics not college admission/life.</p>
<p>You don’t like the thread, SAY … don’t participate on it. No one’s forcing you to read this thread. This very much has to do with college / life at college / issues relating to college administration. The fact that an attorney general is going after a student body president is most certainly relevant.</p>
<p>Eh, I could go either way on where this belongs–indeed, my preference is to slam this guy as a right-wing Republican–but either way, the thread title makes it clear enough what it’s about, so nobody has to read it.</p>
<p>My point is that this is the parents thread. I fail to see anything relevant that a parent could learn about the University of Michigan or any other college because some idiot in the state gov’t is out of line. My guess is that someone in the Michigan State Government will deal with this nut very soon.</p>
<p>Sorry the thread disappoints you.</p>
<p>I think this is the perfect forum to discuss this type of issue. This is a Parents Forum where all kinds of issues - mostly related to our kids - are discussed. And the fact we have some nut-job in an important and somewhat highly regarded position within our government spewing hate directed to a college kid is worth discussing among us parents.</p>
<p>This parent wonders what the University of Michigan ought to do about an unhinged loon cyberstalking one of their students. My guess is, they can do nothing in this case, but it’s too bad the kid has to put up with it.</p>
<p>My guess is his employer can do nothing either. The assistant attorney general is working on the blog on his own time, and though he’s showing appalling judgement and bringing disrepute to the Attorney General’s office, he does have the right to his views and his blog.</p>
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<p>mantori, that was my thought exactly while watching the interview, and I would bet that Anderson Cooper would agree.</p>
<p>To the credit of Atty Gen’l Cox (a conservative GOP), he’s distanced himself from Shirvell quite clearly and repeatedly. Shirvell has a level of immunity b/c he holds a civil servant position rather than an appointment from Cox.</p>
<p>Shirvell is an Assistant Attorney General. He is not the Attorney General. He is merely an employee. If free speech protects wack jobs like Ward Churchill at Colorado, shouldn’t free speech protect an employee wack job in Michigan?</p>
<p>“Go bite rocks,” mantori? LOL, that’s hilarious. I’d never heard that one before.:D</p>
<p>This is one of those tough cases where you think, on the one hand, that it would be bad to fire a government employee for exercising his free speech, but on the other hand, it’s problematic to have a raving lunatic as a government employee.</p>
<p>Maybe the people of Michigan will be embarrassed enough by this clown to do something about him. And if they don’t, well, that will tell us something about the people of Michigan, and maybe about whether it’s a good place to send our kids to college.</p>
<p>Hey, lots of people won’t send their kids to perfectly good Southern universities because of the lunatic antics of a relatively small number of ignorant, reactionary, religio-superstitious nutjobs. What’s good for the goose is good for the Michigander.</p>
<p>This clown is not elected. He’s a civil servant. What can the people of Michigan do? He has the right to spread his ravings on the Internet, however clownish.</p>
<p>Free speech does not cover harassment or cyber-stalking. If his actions are deemed to be those, he may yet be charged with something.</p>
<p>Mantori–UMich is always a great place to send a student, in my humble opinion!</p>
<p>What is happening at Rutgers right now is why this isn’t a political story, but a campus life issue.</p>
<p>On my browser , this is the Politics and Election forum of the Parents Cafe.</p>
<p>This should be called the “anything we can post to get some response;intelligent, rabid, or humorous”. </p>
<p>I really, really have a problem with a minion of the state acting this way, even in their own private venue(s). Bland is good in career civil servants.</p>
<p>It is not like the students at Michigan didn’t know what they were doing. </p>
<p>I have never seen Mr. Anderson but I am getting the vibe of a younger, handsomer, midwestern Barney Frank.</p>
<p>“Why can’t we all just, get along?”</p>