Dear Appalachian State University (ASU) President ([email protected]):
Please allow me to introduce myself. I am a Republican faculty member at your university. I say “your” university because I do not feel that I fit in and, for the time being, wish to remain anonymous. I am also hoping that you will consider some of the harassment complaints I wish to register against the university in this brief letter.
In order to better understand the definition of harassment, I went to the ASU Equity Office website. Here are some examples they provided. Below some of the examples, I have suggested how I think they have been violated:
- telling racist, sexist, homophobic jokes that demean people because of their protected class membership.
Recently, one of my colleagues told a “How many straight guys does it take to screw in a light bulb” joke in the office. I am assuming that when you use the term “homophobic” you are referring to all those gay people who are afraid of heterosexuality. In that context, I feel that the light bulb joke is a harassing homophobic joke. Please legitimate my feelings by charging the offenders immediately.
- commenting inappropriately on someone’s appearance.
Someone in the office complimented me on my last haircut. Please give this matter your immediate attention.
- repeatedly requesting dates from a person who clearly isn’t interested.
- stating that people of one sex are inferior to people of the other sex or can’t perform their jobs as well as a result of their sex; labeling people and jobs due to sex or other protected class membership.
- sexual innuendoes & comments.
One of my colleagues was talking about objects (sex toys) she liked to insert into her rectum. Are those considered to be innuendos? By the way, she happens to be Italian.
- direct or indirect threats or bribes for unwanted sexual activity.
- intrusive sexually explicit questions.
- sexually suggestive sounds or gestures.
Recently, one of my students failed a test. When I passed back her paper, she said, “Oh dear God. Oh my God.” Such orgasmic imitations are clearly beyond the scope of proper classroom conduct. Please investigate immediately.
- touching, patting, pinching, stroking, squeezing, tickling or brushing against a person.
Someone bumped into me in the cafeteria last week. It was uncomfortable. Now I know that it was harassment. I plan to look at the yearbook until I identify the perpetrator. I will be in touch soon.
- ogling or leering at a woman’s breast or a man’s derriÃ
Mike Adams sadly passed away on July 23, 2020, in Wilmington, North Carolina. We leave his work here as a tribute to his always boldly stated conservative values.
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Mike S. Adams was born in Columbus, Mississippi on October 30, 1964. While a student at Clear Lake High School in Houston, TX, his team won the state 5A soccer championship. Mike Adams graduated from C.L.H.S. in 1983 with a 1.8 GPA. Mike Adams was ranked 734 among a class of 740, largely as a result of flunking English all four years of high school. After obtaining an Associate's degree in psychology from San Jacinto College, Mike Adams moved on to Mississippi State University where he joined the Sigma Chi Fraternity. While living in the fraternity house, his GPA rose to 3.4, allowing him to finish his B.A., and then to pursue a Master's in Psychology. In 1990, Mike Adams turned down a chance to pursue a PhD in psychology from the University of Georgia, opting instead to remain at Mississippi State to study Sociology/Criminology. This decision was made entirely on the basis of his reluctance to quit his night job as member of a musical duo. Playing music in bars and at fraternity parties and weddings financed his education. Mike Adams also played for free beer.
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Upon getting his doctorate in 1993, Adams, then an atheist and a Democrat, was hired by UNC-Wilmington to teach in the criminal justice program. A few years later, Adams abandoned his atheism and also became a Republican. He also nearly abandoned teaching when he took a one-year leave of absence to study law at UNC-Chapel Hill in 1998. After returning to teach at UNC-Wilmington, Adams won the Faculty Member of the Year award (issued by the Office of the Dean of Students) for the second time in 2000.
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After his involvement in a well publicized free speech controversy in the wake of the 911 terror attacks, Adams became a vocal critic of the diversity movement in academia. After making appearances on shows like Hannity and Colmes, the O'Reilly Factor, and Scarborough Country, Adams was asked to write a column for Townhall.com.
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Today Mike Adams enjoys the privilege of expressing himself both as a teacher and a writer. Mike Adams is also an avid hunter and reader of classic literature. Mike Adams published his first book, Welcome to the Ivory Tower of Babel, in 2004. His second book, Feminists Say the Darndest Things: A Politically Incorrect Professor Confronts "Womyn" On Campus, was published in 2008.Latest posts by Mike S. Adams (see all)- Kids Write Obama on Abortion; Obama Misplaces Them - Tuesday January 22, 2013 at 5:15 pm
- Stand For Life - Wednesday January 16, 2013 at 12:44 pm
- Fellowship in the Woodlands - Thursday January 3, 2013 at 1:23 pm
