On June 21 Karen Moon, a spokesperson for UNC, and interim director of the UNC news service wrote Inside Higher Ed saying:

"The network is available for official university business. We acknowledge that employees may have some limited personal use of the network. But Dr. Cramer had been retired for 15 years, and his use of the network was exclusively personal. The use of the network is also a privilege. We chose to revoke that privilege because Dr. Cramer was drawing multiple university employees into his personal dispute with Mr. Villarosa. Dr. Cramer's assertion that the university acted out of spite is just wrong."

Ms Moon is wrong. Students, faculty, and staff make extensive use of the email system for personal use and have done so for years. My use was not "exclusively personal" as Vice Chancellor Leslie Strohm can attest since she looked through my emails. Even though I have been retired for 15 years I have the title of Professor Emeritus and am an active scholar.

I did not draw "multiple university employees into my personal

dispute"; Villarosa did. This can be confirmed by looking at the

correspondence on my website http://www.ourpaws.info/strohm.htm

This false statement came from Strohm; she has made many other

false statement about me.

With regard to the University retaliating against me out of spite, I note the following chronology

April 20 Strohm demands that I remove a link to ourpaws.info

April 22 guest editorial published criticizing Strohm

April 22 Threat by Thorp to disable IT service if I do not

comply with Stohm and reference to guest editorial

April 24 I remove link

April 25 I ask Strohm for apology

April 27 Strohm and Thorp agree to disable my IT link