Did it really cost $500 or is that how Sweet perceived it?
Sweet said he went in for an initial appointment, and then found out the next would be $500 (at least according to him). That's when he was expelled from The Garden Of Arkansas.
Sweet's entire tale about his check-up-from-the-neck-up ordeal is very confusing.
As I interpret his numerous and contradictory screeds, harangues and jeremiads on this topic, here's what seems to have happened:
After harassing the journalism faculty and the students who worked at
The Herald from the spring semester of 1997 (when he was fired) into the fall semester of 1998, Sweet was finally hauled into the office of Dr. Leo Greer (me!), where it was determined that "There's something wrong with that boy." He was sent to the on-campus counseling center, where the staff immediately recognized that they were out of their depth. Sweet was ordered to report to a local hospital for a psychological evaluation. Sweet says that this evaluation was going to set him back $500, which he did not have.
Sweet asserts -- in most of his accounts -- that when he told Dr. Leo Greer (me!) that he couldn't afford the psych exam that Dr. Leo Greer (me!) expelled him, which Sweet "didn't take well." Sweet then "said some unfortunate things," which caused Dr. Leo Greer (me!) to ban him from the campus of Arkansas State University for all eternity.
But in August of last year, Sweet
wrote in his DA journal: "I'm drafting a letter to the hospital who [sic] conducted my evaluation, and if they [sic] confirm these suspicions, my old "pal"
Leo Greer [me!] will find himself bounced off of his nice new University [sic] post faster than Grape-Nuts go through a goose."
This clearly states that the hospital
did perform an evaluation. (Maybe he later used it to get his
. ) So it's quite possible that Sweet was actually expelled because of the evaluation's findings and that the whole "didn't have $500" song and dance is a -- dare I use this word? -- ploy to divert attention from what the doctors discovered. Sweet, after all, does have a long, long history of attempting to cast disturbing facts and incidents from his past in outlandishly euphemistic terms. Terroristic threats? "I said some unfortunate things." Twenty-year history of stalking and harassment? "I'm a lovable rascal." Psychopathic chimpout? "I didn't take it well." Draws racist caricatures of black people? "That's how they look." And on and on and on.
In short, Sweet knows the truth, but he's never going to reveal it. He'll just keep posting contradictory misinformation.
EDIT TO ADD:
More info for the front page that is often overlooked:
Sometime during the three semesters after leaving the Herald, he graduated from ASU with an English degree (the academic equivalent of a participation award). He then joined the post graduate program in order to stay there as a career student. His low GPA got him kicked out of the program, and his harassment campaign against the herald staff got him booted from the premises.
I'm not sure that we have any actual evidence that Thumbskull was dropped from the graduate program in English for lack of satisfactory academic progress. Considering his feeble skill with the language, it's certainly possible, but, while he's gleefully confessed to a multitude of felonies and misdemeanors, he's never confessed to that, AFAIK.
