University officials also found an unfinishedstory in his room in which Baker again mentionedthe same female classmate, the Michigan Dailyreported.

"The story involves Mr. Baker abducting thefemale student at gunpoint and taking her to asecluded place off Route 23 in Ann Arbor,"Stejskal said in the affidavit. "He tells her todisrobe, to take a toolbox from his car and thenuses the tools to torture her."

On Thursday, February 9, Baker, who had beensuspended a week earlier, was arrested by the FBIon the basis of his stories and e-mail messages.

The suspension was issued primarily out ofconcern for the girl's safety, according toUniversity officials.

"We do not view this as a freedom of speechissue. What is at issue is invasion of privacy andthreats to safety," Lisa Baker, associatevice-president for university relations, saidyesterday.

"I can't comment directly on the suspension,"Baker said, "but I can say that the president ofthe university has only had to take this kind ofaction twice before and that was when there wasreasonable cause to believe that there was athreat to safety of a student or other students."

Bail Hearings

Federal Magistrate Thomas A. Carlson deniedbail to Baker, calling him "a ticking bomb readyto go off." After a detention hearing the nextday, another judge, Bernard A. Friedman, againdenied bail to Baker, saying that he was "toodangerous for society."

Baker's attorneys filed an appeal on the bailhearing two days ago, but Baker remains in jail,pending a decision by the 6th Circuit Court ofAppeals in Cincinnati, according to one of Baker'slawyers. The student is expected to be freed onbond in the appeal.

"They should decide in a week or two whether ornot he can be released on bond or will have tostay in jail until the trial," David Cahill, oneof Baker's attorneys, told The Crimson yesterday.

Baker was indicted by a grand jury Tuesday withthreatening to injure another person on theInternet. If convicted, he will face a maximumsentence of five years in prison and a $250,000fine. He was arraigned yesterday, in what Cahillcalled a "useless proceeding."

"The next hearing date has not been set,"Cahill said, adding that he expects the trial tobegin within a month or two.

"The woman mentioned in the story has not yetfiled any civil charges," Cahill said. He wasuncertain if she would take any action againstBaker.

In an ironic twist, a woman on the Internetthis week posted a story on `alt.sex.stories' inwhich Baker is himself raped, tortured and killed.

Baker's attorneys will not take any action,Cahill said, "because we think her story wasprotected free speech."