Professor Mike S. Adams is a conservative crusader fighting against the tide of rampant liberalism in the University of North Carolina system. See his Townhall.com archives.
He played a huge role in bringing down Elyse Crystall, a liberal professor (and grown woman) at UNC-Chapel Hill who violated a student’s free speech rights. The student, a conservative Christian, called homosexuality “disgusting,” and Crystall ridiculed him and sent e-mails about him to other students! (This is where the “grown woman” part is relevant.)
The Department of Education said that what Crystall did was harassment and discrimination but chose not to fine the school because it satisfactorily rectified the situation.
Adams e-mailed me a few weeks ago after a Google search led him to posts I’d written about him. After I introduced myself, he said something like, “Oh, yeah!” That happened a lot at CPAC. Some of the folks I wanted to meet had either read my blog or heard of me. Even Michael Medved said, “Oh, yeah.” 
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Word of your good words preceed you. As well they should. God bless you.
Mike Adams is a really nice guy, a good friend of mine who attends UNCW and is chair of NC College Republicans, talks about him to me all the time. It’s really great to have a professor at your own school that you can look up to and you know they’re not out in far-left field. (Cori Dauber and rantingprofs is an example at my school).
As far as the Elyse Crystall controversy, I know he had quite a bit to do with it, but I was the initial person who read the email and knew that it needed to be public!!! (Hah, sorry I love taking credit for that). The Pope Center really helped release it to the press and Mike Adams kept hounding on it and wouldn’t let it die…so yes, much thanks to him. I’m sad to report that Elyse is still here at UNC, but I doubt any profs here will send out any emails like that for a while.
But, there is a noticeable difference in classes since the incident. For example, in some of my classes where we’ll be discussing ethics, professors lay down discussion rules or we talk about how we should preface our comments to make sure we’re not “insulting” someone else, yadda yadda yadda =)
Athena – I thought of you when I wrote this. I remember you telling about your role. Sorry I left you out!
Mike Adams certainly deserves a lot of praise for his roll, but the final result was not that great. Crystall retracted her ‘coerced’ apology and received a great deal of praise from the anti-Christian majority faculty. And as you said, she is still there. Also, she said she will not act differently in the future.
I engaged in a long discussion with UNC students at Discriminations.us and they were uniformly agreed that Crystall had a right to abuse the student, even publicly, because he had engaged in ‘hatespeech’ by taking Crystall seriously when she asked why heterosexual males feel uncomfortable around homosexual males.
The final result is that students are still terrified of the punishment that a Crystall can inflict if they state unpopular opinions in class, and free speech is still meant only for the select.
Well then it’s up to a lot of big mouths like me to keep calling liberal pythons like Crystall OUT. Perhaps if the Department of Education gets involved again, they’ll fine the school. Or the next time. Or the next time. The victory was symbolic, but it’s only the beginning. Conservative and Christians are FED UP with this kind of treatment!
A Federal judge did rule a few months back that the student’ civil rights had been violated, but the Civil Rights Commission said they would take no action against UNC since they had already done so themselves (by apologizing and requiring monitoring). Of course, my opinion is that nothing has changed if the abuser feels entitled, by “University rules”, to do so again to protect other students from “hate-speech”.
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