Subjects / Subject 0002
Dr. Wendell J. Stroud
Evidentiary basis
A nod, observed at a Rotary Club pancake breakfast in March 2019, and a bumper sticker for a candidate in a 2014 county drain commissioner race. The candidate ran unopposed. The candidate’s party affiliation is not printed on that ballot line.
INFERENTIAL — Assembled from objects. No conduct and no statement on file.
In the subject’s own words
None on file. The Watch has never heard the subject speak. A 2021 department profile quotes him on drainage.
Field record
- Discipline
- Civil Engineering. Load-bearing structures, culverts, one paper on drainage that is well regarded.
- Habitat
- A structures laboratory. A truck.
- Range
- Campus, one Rotary Club, and a hardware store on Grand River Avenue.
- Status
- Tenured. Full professor. Has never sought administrative appointment.
- Pattern of life
- Laboratory 6:30 to 6:30. Rotary Club breakfast, first Saturday. Church, irregular.
- Identifying marks
- A truck. The truck has a bumper sticker. The bumper sticker is for a candidate in a 2014 county drain commissioner race.
- Call
- Unrecorded. In seven years the Watch has not obtained a recording of the subject’s voice.
- Diet
- Pancake breakfasts. Coffee from the laboratory, black.
- Known associates
- Twelve graduate students, all cleared. One brother, cleared.
- Capabilities
- None assessed. Subject has published forty-one papers, none of them political.
- Intent
- Assessed as "to finish the culvert paper."
- Signature
- Inferred entirely from the truck. Confidence: moderate, and internally disputed.
- Reproductive success
- Two children. Both in engineering. Neither is monitored.
Subject 0002 was first observed in March 2019 at a Rotary Club pancake breakfast, where he was seen to nod. The nod was logged, reviewed by a second analyst, and escalated. In seven years he has not spoken at a faculty meeting, signed a statement, or declined to sign one.
His signature is inferred from his truck. A working group was formed to consider whether it could be. Its 2023 finding was that the truck is a truck. The finding was filed and changed nothing.
Reports describe him as resistant to observation. He is not resistant to observation. He has never been told he is being observed.
Surveillance log
| 2019-03-02 08:14 | Rotary Club pancake breakfast. Subject observed to nod. Nod logged. Case opened. |
| 2019-03-02 08:16 | Nod reviewed. Second analyst concurs. Escalated. |
| 2021-11-30 17:45 | Faculty meeting, ninety minutes. Subject present. Subject silent. Consistent with all prior faculty meetings. |
| 2023-06-14 | Working group on the truck reports. Finding: the truck is a truck. Filed. |
| 2026-05-09 09:20 | Hardware store, Grand River Avenue. Subject purchased a hose. Inquiry not opened. |