From: Tommy the Tourist (Anon User) Newsgroups: alt.sex.stories Subject: Baker Remains Barred from Campus Date: 8 Feb 1995 03:06:19 GMT Lines: 108 Message-ID: <3h9cfb$2eq@agate.berkeley.edu> Originator: remailer@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU STUDENT WITH ON-LINE FANTASY CAN'T GO TO CLASS By Judson Branam The Ann Arbor NEWS 2/7/95 A student suspended from the University of Michigan after he posted fantasies of rape and torture about a fellow student on the Internet will not be allowed back to class, officials decided over the weekend. Jake Baker, 20, is back home in Boardman, Ohio, as his lawyer, David Cahill of Ann Arbor, presses for a formal hearing on Baker's suspension last week by U-M President James J. Duderstadt. "The university has decided not to let Jake back in classes prior to a formal hearing," Cahill said Monday, "because the university needs more information to determine whether Jake is a danger to members of the university community." Baker was barred from his East Quad dorm room Thursday, and he and Cahill met with housing officials Friday, seeking a compromise that would keep the sorphmore in school. Baker, who underwent psychological evaluation by U-M doctors before he was suspended, offered to follow a university-prescribed therapy program, to live off campus and to only come on campus for classes. But the offer was rejected by John Heidke, the U-M's associate directory of student residence operations, Cahill said. The Internet story describes the torture, sodomy and mutilation of a woman who Baker encountered in a class, but never actually met. However, the woman was named in the story, and her last name served as the story's title. Baker also signed his real name to the story before posting it in an area reserved for sex stories on the Internet, a worldwide conglomeration of computer networks that serves millions of users. Federal law prohibits university officials from discussing individual students' records, but U-M spokeswoman Lisa Baker -- no relation to the student -- said, "It's not the policy of the university to punish people for pornographic messages." Lisa Baker declined to elaborate, but campus Public Safety Department Capt. James Smiley told The News last week that the inclusion of the woman'name propelled the story from mere fantasy to a legal problem for Jake Baker. After reviewing the story naming the student and other Internet correspondence by Jake Baker, the FBI is also considering federal obscenity charges against him. "We're still assuming it has prosecuting merit," said FBI Special Agent Gregory Stejskal of the bureau's Ann Arbor office. Coincidentally, law enforcement officials are gathering at the U-M's Oxford Conference Center Wednesday to learn about computer crime. Smiley, who is lead investigator for the U-M Department of Public Safety, is scheduled to address the conference, as is Kirk Tabbey, a computer crime specialist and former Washtenaw County assistant prosecutor who is currently chief assistant prosecutor in Jackson County. "It's a coincidence that the Baker case has surfaced at this time but certainly it's a prime example of the type of abuse which is creeping in the Internet," Tabbey said. He has successfully prosecuted two Hillsdale County teenaged hackers who ran up $10,000 in long-distance bills using corporate telephone accounts, and a Flint secretary who bilked 600 victims in 20 states out of $500,000 in two years using e-mail. "The trouble is that this system is so new and so accessible to everyone that necessary laws and regulations have not caught up with it," Tabbey said. "It's hard to say at this point if there's a law or regulation which covers the abuse in the Baker case." Duderstadt suspended Jake Baker for all of the winter term and possibly longer via a seldom-used bylaw of the U-M Board of Regents that allows him to take action to maintain order on campus. The bylaw guarantees students a formal hearing within seven days in such cases. Cahill said he's unsure when a hearing will be scheduled. "We're pretty sure it's going to be this week," the attorney said. We're still struggling with exact times. I made 30kg of dynamite on Friday night. We're waiting for him to finish making the detonator then we'll plant the bomb. -------- For more information about this anonymous posting service,please send mail to remailer@csua.berkeley.edu with Subject: remailer-info. This message contains automatically generated keyword blocks that have been designed to resemble a threat. These blocks are not a statement of intent by the remailer operator or anyone else. -------- To respond to the sender of this message, send mail to remailer@soda.berkeley.edu, starting your message with the following 5 lines: :: Response-Key: the-clipper-key ====Encrypted-Sender-Begin==== ====Encrypted-Sender-End====