Dear Mr. Garthwaite [Editor-in-Chief, Townhall.com]:
I am writing to respectfully request that you put an end to your November Town Hall fund-raiser. Recently, the college at which I am employed has experienced profound anxiety and gerif [sic] as a consequence of a column posted on townhall.com
The controversy in question arose when a Christien [sic] group on our campus tried to show a film known as “The Passion of the Christ.” Knowing what is best for our students, we decided to ban the film on the basis of its “R” rating.
That is when the trouble began.
One of your columnists discovered that we were allowing non-Christian films to be shown on campus, even when those films had received an “R” rating. But your columnist was not content to merely point out our hypocrisy and intolerance. He insisted on including the President’s office phone number in the text of his column. As a result of huindreds [sic] of phone calls from your angry readers (there appear to be millions of these people) we were forced to shut down our normal office operations.
It was a public relations nightmare culminating in our decision to allow the Christians to show the film.
Months later, we still hear from angry donors who read your biased website. I hope you are happy with all of the trouble you are causing. And I hope you will reconsider your decision to ask readers to support your work. We are tying to run this educationsl [sic] establishment as we see fit. Please butt out!
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Dear Mr. Garthwaite:
I am writing to ask you to please get your columnist (name deleted) off of our backs here at the University of (name deleted). We spent good money recently in an effort to educate our students on a variety of diverse sexual practices, only to have our well-intentioned efforts disrupted by the aforementioned columnist. The fact that we chose to educate our students by hiring a porn star is simply none of your business. We do not believe it is any of the taxpayer’s business either.
We are also profoundly upset at the decision of the columnist to include university email hyperlinks, phone numbers, and fax numbers in the text of his column. As a result, we received about 400 faxes in one week. As you can imagine, we were unable to conduct our regular business due to this unexpected disruption.
We are also disturbed by your columnist’s need to write follow-up columns exposing the proliferation of pornography on our public university website. While it was probably a bad decision on our behalf to have links to films depicting incest accessible on the university website, we fail to see the need for townhall.com to post articles exposing these decisions. Put simply, it is none of your business.
Since your website has started to expose our university, we have experienced quite a backlash from our donors. In fact, we are told that some are now making direct contributions to townhall.com. We hope that you will cease and desist in the near future.
To be continued…
Mike S. Adams is a Jonathan Swift Professor of Parody and Satire at the University of North Carolina at Wonderland (UNC-W).
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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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