Subject:	Re: Dispute with Mr. Villarosa
Date:	Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:29:00 -0500
From:	Elliot Cramer <cramer@email.unc.edu>
Organization:	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
To:	Strohm, Leslie Chambers <strohm@email.unc.edu>

Dear M. Strohm:

This is not true at all; I did not set up the paypal account and I did not manage it. In fact, I have had nothing to do with the paypal account until recently, following the death of Margaret Mauney who did set it up and manage it on her own account. My association with FOCAS began in 2004 but, I believe, the paypal account was set up some years later. The only contact with UNC was that Paypal sent me notices of contributions to FOCAS and I forwarded these notices to Pat Sanford, starting in October 5, 2009; I see 25 emails to me and all but five are since May and are related to the Robeson County animal shelter which Rep McElraft has been involved with. I believe that this is in the category of "incidental personal usage by faculty, staff, and students". In fact, my association with FOCAS is in the nature of public service since FOCAS is organized under State law as a public charity, not a business see
http://www.secretary.state.nc.us/corporations/Filings.aspx?PItemId=5699875 . I believe that University faculty are encouraged to engage in public service.

You can see that our website is at www.friendsofocas.org and it has never said anything about the university. I did set up an alias focas@unc.edu for convenience in people writing me for matters relating to the Orange County Animal Shelter which we support. Unknown to me, the address FOCAS@unc.edu did come up at the top of the page when someone clicked the contribution button but there was nothing to indicate any association with UNC. I do not believe that this implied any involvement with UNC but, after my correspondence with you, I contacted Paypal and they have removed it as you can see by looking at the FOCAS website. My few emails to Paypal have been for this purpose. It took a while for them to make this change but it has been in place for some time. I have set up another alias and have instructed them to contact me at the address Focas@bellsouth.net although it surely it not a violation of university policy for businesses to write me.

I have read the University policy and I am at a loss to know how any of this can be construed as a violation of University policy. If you still believe that it is, I would like you to specifically cite what, in the policy, I have violated.

This investigation is a result of harassment by Joseph Villarosa who is now the subject of a complaint to the FBI for internet harassment. I was assured by Professor Bill Reppy that "the folks at UNC recognize a nut case when they encounter one." Evidently I was mistaken. You can read about Villarosa on my website http://www.ourpaws.info/joe.htm It needs some updated as a result of continued harassment and death threats towards Susan Barrett due to her involvement with the Robeson County shelter. I have no dispute with Villarosa; he has harassed me for the same reason and you are his unwitting tool.

I will appreciate your promptly resolving this issue and notifying Mr. Villarosa that I am not in violation of University policy. He does not write me anymore but, I am told, I receive occassional mention on Facebook in connection with his harassment of others. I am sure that you have better things to do than deal with a nut like Villarosa.

Elliot. M. Cramer

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Date:	Mon, 17 Jan 2011 23:48:08 -0500
From:	Elliot Cramer <cramer@email.unc.edu>
Organization:	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
To:	Strohm, Leslie Chambers <strohm@email.unc.edu>,
CC:	Holden Thorp <holden_thorp@unc.edu>,

I have logged onto the FOCAS paypal account and I see that our first paypal transaction was on 3/25/2008, not 2004 as you say. I see about 45 contributions since then, an average of about 1.3 per month; 20 of these were in connection with the Robeson shelter which was a special case for which we did NOT solicit. We have never mentioned Robeson County on our website and contributions through our website for Robeson specifically mentioned that they were for the Robeson County lawsuit. Thus we solicited an average of about .7 contributions per month on a non-UNC website. I had no occasion to write Paypal about ANY of these though I probably received emails from paypal, notifying me of the contributions.

It is thus incorrect to say that I "have regularly used your “unc” account to set up and manage a PayPal account on behalf of FOCAS and to solicit monetary gifts from donors and potential donors to FOCAS." I did not set it up the account; I did not start managing the account until the end of December; I see only two emails to Paypal about FOCAS and I do not believe that I have ever had occasion to write them before. One of the says

Thank you very much. I presume that the following (FOCAS@unc.edu) has yet to be changed on the "contribute" link

FOCAS@UNC.EDU

This should never have been on there in the first place and it would not have been, had our treasurer properly set up the paypal account. I did not authorize it and I had no knowledge of it. In any event, I do not believe that the use of a UNC email address implies any connection between the organization and UNC.

I find this statement under the University's Policy for Use of University Resources in Support of Entrepreneurial Activities

"For the purpose of this policy, "entrepreneurial activities" performed by a member of the university faculty as part of University duties are activities that contribute to the university's economic development, technology transfer or other public service goals."

I believe that Rep. McElraft will verify that FOCAS has been serving "a public service goal" in its help with the Robeson shelter and our activities in support of the Orange County Animal Shelter. She is also familiar with the harassment of Joseph Villarosa.

Elliot M. Cramer