"It's ridiculous, absurd and needs to end because I would like to be a student at CMU and not have to worry every night that my school is going to kick me out," the Topinabee junior said.

The original disciplinary hearing was scheduled for Dec. 6, 2007, but was delayed at Lennox's request. It was postponed again Jan. 30, when campus was closed because of a snowstorm.

According to a memorandum sent to Lennox from Director of Student Life Tony Voisin, Lennox allegedly violated three sections of the CMU Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities and Disciplinary Procedures.

According to the memorandum, section 3.2.2 defines providing false information to a university official, section 3.2.15 defines not identifying oneself to a university agent when asked and section 3.2.32 defines distributing printed materials in violation of the Advocacy Policy.

Voisin said the university does not hold "expulsion" hearings, only student hearings.

"I can't comment on any student that has a hearing or does not have a hearing because of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act," he said.

Lennox said the hearing stemmed from a complaint filed by English Language and Literature Professor Peter Koper on Oct. 23, 2007 about Lennox distributing anti-Gary Peters, temporary political science professor and congressional candidate, fliers throughout Anspach Hall. Central Michigan Life obtained a copy of that complaint.

In the complaint, Koper said he saw Lennox's fliers and began to dispose of them because they were littering the building and were placed in violation of the University Policies and Procedures Affecting Advocacy Activities.

Koper then alleges Lennox approached him and "jerked the fliers that (Lennox) was holding out of (his) hand."

"I asked him to identify himself. He refused to do so," Koper wrote in the complaint. "I spoke to him several times, attempting to explain to him the rules he was violating."

Koper said he did not press the matter any further, except to ask him "several times" to identify himself, in which Lennox allegedly denied and even referred to himself as Dick Cheney.

"I ask that you investigate this matter and bring appropriate charges against this young man," Koper wrote in the complaint. "I am certain that and will attest that he violated the University's Policies on Advocacy Issues."

Lennox said the information in the complaint is false and the charges are bogus.

"When he filed the complaint he had no idea who I was," he said. "He had the wrong date in the compliant."

In the complaint, Koper writes he confronted Lennox on Oct. 23, the previous day, but the complaint is dated Oct. 23.

Flint senior Brandon Bowser said the whole issue should have been resolved a long time ago.

"It's very easy to villainize a person like Dennis if you don't know him," he said. "I feel like a lot of the people who have opinions don't know him. We have to remember that he is a real person."

Bowser said he suspects Lennox will receive a written warning and/or face academic probation.

He said the administration should not be concerned with Lennox, but the bigger issues the world faces.

Dearborn graduate student Benjamin Gurk said he feels CMU is taking a heavy-handed approach.

"This whole thing sounds a littler far fetched," Gurk said.

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