PTBC Editor’s note: Refer to Mike Adams’ previous column for a catch-up— “Is Atheism Only a Bundle of Sentiments?”
I’m about to hop in my car to drive to Greensboro, North Carolina, to give a speech at UNCG. Hopefully, some of my readers can make it out to UNCG by 7:30 p.m. My speech will be in the Azalea Room in the Elliott University Center. I think that’s the same place a porn star gave a speech on safe sodomy back in 2004. I plan to give my speech on safe Russian roulette. I’m only kidding.
But before I leave for my trip to UNC-Gomorrah, I want to share my latest bit of correspondence with the administration here at UNC-Webmasters (hereafter, UNCW). It should provide some insight into this interesting question: Which is the biggest problem in our universities today, a) Administrative Intolerance, or b) Administrative Incompetence?
Chancellor (DePaolo):
I am deeply disappointed in the university’s response (concerning my request for the posting of an announcement of Frank Turek’s speech on “Faith and Atheism” at UNCW). Dana did, in fact, indicate that a death in (the editor’s) family resulted in the failure to post the request I submitted on March 18th. That does not explain, however, the university’s failure to recognize the request I submitted on March 12th. Nor does it explain the numerous postings between the dates of March 12th and March 24th.
If there are other factors – including but not necessarily limited to family deaths – I would like to know what those other factors were. I would also like to know how family deaths affect some postings but not others.
Mike Adams
(The Chancellor had someone else respond for her).
Chancellor DePaolo:
I received a letter from Dana this morning indicating that the editor’s office did not receive my request for posting, which was submitted on March 12th. I have re-checked my records. That message was, in fact, successfully sent at exactly 11:37 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. I think it is time to move on to another issue.
In a previous correspondence you referenced the Faculty Senate President’s decision to decline to post information about the Turek lecture on the Faculty Senate mailing list. You were correct to mention that I understood his rationale for declining to post that information; namely, that it was not “faculty senate business.” However, since that correspondence I have discovered that the following was circulated on the Faculty Senate mailing list: “Resolved, the UNCW faculty declares its support for a three-year academic celebration of the bicentennial of the birth of one of history’s greatest scientists, Charles Darwin, and the sesquicentennial of the publication of his monumental, paradigm-changing book, The Origin of Species.”
It would appear to me that the university has opened up a public forum on the issue of evolution with a “celebration” of Darwin. I plan to invite Dr. Frank Turek back to UNC-Wilmington next semester in order to offer a critique of Darwin. I will again ask the Faculty Senate leadership to circulate an announcement of the details of his lecture.
Given that we are “celebrating” Darwin, should we not be “celebrating” a diversity of perspectives on the magnitude of Darwin’s contributions. In other words, can we agree that we have opened up a public forum and that a Turek lecture can be reasonably viewed as a part of “faculty senate business”?
(Before the chancellor could respond, her assistant accidentally sent Dr. Adams an email that was intended for Dr. DePaolo).
Chancellor DePaolo:
I think the message below – sent to me by your special assistant – was actually intended for you: “It seems to me that his issue is with the faculty senate…not you…just as his issue with @uncw is with Caroline, Dana or me…not you.”
Mike Adams
My trip to UNCG comes at a really good time. It will give the university at day or so to learn how to use the email system. They can find lost emails and even learn how to send emails to one another. Then, when I get back, maybe we can talk about the numerous posting requests sent to the Women’s Resource Center on behalf of Life Line Pregnancy Center over a period of six years. I’m sure that most of those requests were innocently lost or sent to people attending funerals.
In the meantime, log on to Frank Turek’s blog (http://www.CrossExamined.org) to see what he thought about his trip to UNC-Web Experts (hereafter, UNCW). I’ll be back with another installment faster than you can say “safe sodomy.”
NOTE: PTBC Editor adds gratuitous link to great book, Frank Turek’s “I Don’t Have Enough faith To Be An Atheist”:
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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.
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