Story by Suzanne Elliott/The Dominion Post
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A Bluefield man, who is suing West Virginia University for failing to provide him with documents explaining why he was not admitted to the law school, was forcibly removed from a Board of Governor’s meeting Wednesday morning.
Jay Folse is under a “no trespass order” from the university.
The no trespass order was issued by University Police on July 8 for all university property after Folse threatened and harassed several university officials and representatives. Additionally, he previously refused to leave an executive session portion of a BOG committee during a meeting at the Summit Bechtel Reserve in Beckley in June.
Folse, 25, was sitting in the audience before the meeting began. He ignored several verbal requests from university officials to leave, saying the meeting was public.
Before the start the meeting, the university provided Folse a telephone number to call in to listen to the public meeting, but he declined to accept the offer. When he was asked to leave and comply with the no trespass order, he refused and briefly struggled with a police officer before being handcuffed and led from the room.
Folse was arrested and charged with trespassing, disorderly conduct and obstructing an officer and is currently awaiting arraignment, university officials said.