Oklahoma Students Stealing Vials Of What?

Ok, now at first glance I just shrugged my shoulders. Two kids breaking into school, nothing new there. But read it again:

Two Norman men face felony charges after allegedly breaking into a tunnel under the University of Oklahoma campus to get into a building on the South Oval.

Christopher Thomas Boyce, 24, and James Kent Eldridge, 20, were charged Thursday in Cleveland County District Court with conspiracy to commit burglary and second-degree burglary.

According to an affidavit, a witness saw Boyce and Eldridge entering an underground tunnel system by cutting the locks to a manhole cover in the 1100 block of Asp Avenue. Police said the pair then opened a perimeter door and entered Richards Hall, where they removed a “stoppered glass vial.”

“Stoppered glass vial”? What was in this vial that was so important they broke into the school to get it?

Then when you check out Richards Hall you find out it houses the Biological unit:

The University of Oklahoma Biological Station (UOBS) was established in 1949 as a permanent research facility. This is the first university-affiliated research facility to be established on a man-made lake. The Station?s primary objectives are to promote and support: education, research, and academic conferences. We are a separate budgetary unit and an organized research unit of the [College of Arts & Sciences], with close affiliations to the [Department of Zoology], [Department of Botany/Microbiology], [Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History] and the [Oklahoma Biological Survey].

This hall also houses the office of Cluff Hopla, who found a disease similiar to the west nile virus:

The walls of Hopla’s office in Richards Hall are lined with wooden boxes that hold the more than 50,000 flea specimens the OU George Lynn Cross Research Professor Emeritus of Zoology has collected and studied during most of his 50-plus-year career.

An internationally known expert in zoonotic diseases-those transmitted from animals to humans-Hopla, at age 85, still travels the world to participate in medical conferences, sharing his vast and always-expanding body of knowledge. In December, he chaired a session and moderated another at a conference in Bangkok, Thailand, where a decade ago he helped establish a comparative medicine program at one of that country’s leading universities.

He also continues his research, mostly in Caddo Canyon, Oklahoma, approximately 60 miles west of Norman, where he has converted a 1930s farmhouse and some acreage into a field laboratory. While the flea is his primary subject these days, Hopla also studies diseases transmitted to mammals by the cliff swallow, a single-brooded bird that migrates to South America each winter and back to North America each spring. In collaboration with scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Infection in Atlanta, he has isolated a virus transmitted by the cliff swallow that is very similar to the West Nile virus, as well as a handful of others that he is trying to fully identify.

Would be interested to know what was in that vial especially givin the fact that one of the kids has left a few posts over the years which show his moonbattery:

Date:	Tue, 11 Sep 2001 16:09:24 -0700
Reply-To:	Chris Boyce <camusinrevolt@THECRY.COM>
Sender:	Students for Social and Economic Change <SSEC-L@LISTS.OU.EDU>
From:	Chris Boyce <camusinrevolt@THECRY.COM>
Subject:	Re: Vigil
Content-Type:	text/plain

ive flyered all over campus and given a few out by hand

does anyone have a mike? i think its importaint that we keep the hate/war
mongers from dominating this event, i will make a speech if i can get something
to stand on or a mike. i think we can all agree that this is a critical period
and that its importaint that we get a message of rationality, tolerance and
peace across.

i will be in class untill maybe 645 or so

More:

Date:	Mon, 17 Sep 2001 18:11:47 -0700
Reply-To:	Chris Boyce <camusinrevolt@THECRY.COM>
Sender:	Students for Social and Economic Change <SSEC-L@LISTS.OU.EDU>
From:	Chris Boyce <camusinrevolt@THECRY.COM>
Subject:	Tuesday, tragedies, terrorism
Content-Type:	text/plain

At the
university, I was on my way to work when I first learned about the horror
that had occurred on Tuesday. Like so many others, I was devastated by the
news. Here at the University of Oklahoma, the World Trade Center tragedy not
only horrified us but rekindled nightmares about the Oklahoma City bombing of
the Murrah building.

Students gathered in the campus Student Union
building to learn what we could from the television newsreports. For the
past several days, I have needed to be around people, to meditate, to observe
in some hopes of deriving some small explicability from all this. So I’ve
listened to my fellow students. I’ve watched CNN, CSPAN, all four network
channels. I’ve read reactions in print newspapers and internet newsgroups.
I’ve talked with friends and exchanged e-mails. And I’ve tried to grapple
with the horror, the incomprehensible loss, and the social changes I can
already sense developing. Tuesday’s tragedy cost us perhaps thousands of
lives viciously, absurdly ended. It cost us our sense of national safety
in one of our greatest cities and in our safest means of national and
international travel. And, after observing people’s reactions these past
several days, it looks as though we as a country may have lost far more on
Tuesday. In newsgroups and e-mails, in conversations over-heard, I keep
encountering the ugly words of racism. More than once, someone has stated
that s/he really didn’t care whether anyone in the Middle East were
responsible for Tuesday’s tragedy we should bomb the Middle East into
oblivion anyway.

I remember that, when people had suspected Middle East
terrorists of bombing the Murrah building here in Oklahoma, a Philipino
friend of mine had been assaulted by angry White students who’d assumed he
were from the Middle East simply because he had darker skin. In my history
books, I’ve read what our nation did to United States citizens who happened to be of Asian descent during World War II; I remember from my childhood
how people treated United States citizens and foreign students of Middle
Eastern descent during the Iran Hostage Crisis and again during Desert
Storm. I can still recall witnessing men in Ku Klux Klan robes on the
roadside waving signs advocating hatred for everyone associated with the
Middle East. I remember the ugly sounds in their voices, and I’m hearing that
same ugliness in the voices of too many of my fellow Americans today.
In print and in person, I keep encountering people who now react with crazed
fear against anything which is not silenced obedience to the government. They
are convinced that unity in the face of this tragedy means that we must
now surrender on all social and political issues to the current executive
branch.

Why is it that so many people who shout that we must unite really
mean that we must unite under their specific beliefs and must abandon our
own? How can they exploit a tragedy like this into a political ploy? Any
disagreement with Bush on budget matters, on social security or school prayer
or on any number of important political disputes, is reinterpreted by
these people as a dangerous show of disunity. I read and hear comments such
as “at this point the differences between political dogma become moot —
we have a job to do” and other comments which vilify any and all
disagreements with the current president, with the implication that such wrongthink borders on being traitorous. But what good is it to safeguard
our country if we do so by casting aside the very freedom and open debate
that have made our country worth celebrating?

We need to rally together to
keep Tuesday’s tragedy from being repeated, but we dare not turn this into a politician’s carte blanche for stifling debate about critical issues and
critical disagreements between liberals and conservatives. Unity does not
mean whitewashing. I understand that it is very easy and very human to
lionize any source of strength into a hero. Abused children still cling to
the violent parent for protection from strangers and snarling dogs. If the
white knight promises to slay the dragon, who dares upbraid him when he robs
from some unarmed citizens? But the abusive parent must still be held to
account, and dragonslaying does not make a saint of a robber. We must take
action against terrorism, oh yes, but we must also continue to work to keep
our government honest, fair, and responsive to both liberals and
conservatives, and that is not possible when people are silenced in the name
of unity. Or we may end up allowing the passage of laws that will haunt
our grandchildren long after Tuesday’s tragedy has become a never-repeated
event alive only in dusty history books.

Finally, I am frightened for the
spiritual fidelity of Christians of many denominations. Before Tuesday, I
heard people advocating being more like Jesus Christ in His compassion and
submission. Local and national newspapers featured others boasting annoyingly
about their Christianity as part of their lobbying for school prayer or
such. After Tuesday, I hear torrents of words of un-Christian hatred from
people who claim to be Christians. I read boasts that whoever did this will be “hunted down and destroyed without thought for the sanctity of human
life.” Yes, Jesus scourged the moneychangers in the temple, and while He
advocated we pray for those who persecute us, He also spoke about bringing
a sword. But always at such times He was angry not hate-filled, and although
He fought back on certain occasions, He never indulged in viciousness and
blind rage. In responding to this act of terrorism, we must not become
like the terrorists: we must not become as hate-filled, as dismissive of
human life, as willing to harm innocents as those we oppose. Those of us who claim to be Christians will be judged on whether we remain true to our
Christianity when such horrors tempt us to cast aside our faith in the name
of rage and revenge. I am sick to my stomach about a large segment of my
country. The terrorists attacked us, but our reactionary response is
damaging us far, far worse. Long before flies had begun to feast upon the
dead, our politicians were feasting upon the opportunities provided by this attack to silence questions about some questionable political policies. I
have been told that here, in Oklahoma, the first show of unity was the
gasoline stations uniting to charge $5.00 a gallon for gas. United States
citizens of Arabic descent worry for their safety, and United States mosques
suffer bomb threats which amount to domestic acts of retributive terrorism
against innocent United States Islamic citizens and their houses of God.
Meanwhile, too many Christian evangelists and politicians use this tragedy
like a marketing tool, offering to the grieving not comfort nor wisdom but
only a sales pitch for their particular religion.

Tuesday’s tragedy must
not occur again. But let’s make sure that we fight _all_ forms of terrorism
and oppose _all_ bloodshed of innocents, including the innocent deaths
which occur whenever we give in to the impulse to blind retaliation. Let’s
make sure that we neither contribute to nor worsen the horrors of Tuesday
11 September 2001 with the way we in the United States respond, individually
and as a people.

More:

Date:	Thu, 25 Oct 2001 01:14:27 -0700
Reply-To:	Chris Boyce <camusinrevolt@THECRY.COM>
Sender:	Students for Social and Economic Change <SSEC-L@LISTS.OU.EDU>
From:	Chris Boyce <camusinrevolt@THECRY.COM>
Subject:	Meeting Notes-Oct 18, 2001
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> ssec-l@lists.ou.edu camusinrevolt@thecry.comDate: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 19:07:31
> Meeting Notes-Oct 18, 2001 >Meeting format was changed from formal consensus
to standard parlimentary procedure. The ad hoc parlimentarian is kendric > >The
constitutional committee will present a finialized version at the nov 1st
meeting for a group vote. A draft version will be sent out via the listserv. >
>We have received the budget for spring 2001, 300 dollars was allocated, 100 of
that to be used for office purposes. > >Plans for the anti-capitalist carnival
and buy nothing day were discussed, further planing to be expected on the 1st. >
>The next meeting will be at 7 o clock, November 1st at the alma wilson room. >
>We will be chalking tuesday, october 30th, and flyering a few days before that.
>Please reply if you are available to help. > > >- >”Every act of rebellion
expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.”
>(Albert Camus)

Plus you have this page showing Mr. Boyce as an organizer for OU Students Against War:

3. Die-In

Rather than demonstrate next week OUSAW will host a die-in. Tons of people have said they want to participate. It looks like it will be on the south oval around lunch on Tuesday April 15. Contact Chris Boyce ASAP if you’d like to participate (circular_ruins@yahoo.com)

And the latest proof found, printed in January of this year which seem to show he now has some anarchistic views:

“The whole concept of left and right is too confining,” Boyce said. “We need to build a more social model of community where people are for the people. Revolution is not about taking over the government, it is not having a government at all. Nobody telling us what to think and what to do. Existing without capital, defining your own values.”

Want some more? This guy was arrested awhile back for attempting to bring an explosive device into a airport on August 12 of this year:

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A University of Oklahoma student was released on $10,000 bail Thursday after appearing in federal court to be formally accused of a felony for allegedly bringing a small explosive device into Will Rogers World Airport.

Federal agents arrested Charles Alfred Dreyling Jr., 24, on Wednesday at a security checkpoint after a Transportation Security Administration employee noticed something suspicious in his carryon luggage as it went through an X-ray machine about 9:30 a.m., FBI spokesman Gary Johnson said.

The device was described in an FBI affidavit as a carbon dioxide cartridge filled with gunpowder that could be detonated when connected to a power source such as the batteries Dreyling had in his electric razor and in his cell phone, which were also in his carryon bag.

Who is the lawyer representing Charles Dreyling?

A University of Oklahoma student accused of transporting an explosive device into Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City last week is still enrolled and could begin classes at the Norman campus next Monday.

OU public affairs vice president Catherine Bishop confirmed Tuesday aviation senior Charles Alfred Dreyling Jr. is still a student. Dreyling is one semester away from completing an aviation management degree, according to his lawyer Kent Eldridge.

Kent Eldridge, the Father of one of the laboratory burglars is representing the kid who brought explosives to an airport. Kinda strange.

So what we have now at this point is two kids, one who is definately a moonbat activist and another who’s Father is representing a bomb nut. These two break into an area of the school that houses the biological unit and steal a vial.

What the eff was in that vial?

And what the hell is going on in Oklahoma?

(h/t to the Freepers at Free Republic for some great web detective work)

Curt

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