Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
A professor at Wright State University was escorted off campus last week after police were made aware about a text message she sent.
Kristine Scordo, a professor in the WSU college of nursing and health, was placed on paid leave Wednesday after Wright State attorney Michael Manzler showed the text messages to officers, a police report shows.
The police report says officers were shown multiple text messages by Scordo, including one that said “something to the effect of obtaining a gun with no direct threats stated followed by laughing emoji’s from someone else and then two lengthy messages.”
Manzler asked police to escort Scordo off campus from room 158 of University Hall, the report states.
When escorted to her car by police, Scordo said she was confused by the action.
She told police that her comment over text message was “clearly a joke.” Scordo said her comment was made in reference to the perception that “all the university does is have meetings after meetings and she can’t get any of her work done,” the report states.
After Scordo left campus, police spoke again with Manzler and Deborah Ulrich, interim dean of Wright State’s college of nursing and health. Ulrich told police that she “didn’t feel very safe knowing that Ms. Scordo would say something of that nature,” the report states.
