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Letter: ?Gene Nichol shouldn't get taxpayer funds

TO THE EDITOR:

Gene Nichol: Who is he; what has he done?

He is an extremely well-paid lawyer at my UNC law school, and he is speaking at my church Sunday — supposedly on poverty. He has pulled down over a million dollars from UNC and N.C. taxpayers.

He is most famous for taking down the cross in the chapel at The College of William & Mary. At that time, he engaged in controversies with Virginia legislators, the same way he spends his time demeaning the N.C. legislature.

 He authorized extremely explicit sex shows on campus and accused them of offering him “economic incentives.” (Was that bribery? I don’t know.) They also accuse him of being disingenuous about money raised when he was let go. 

All this has been on the internet for years; I found no record of his setting the record straight. These are his badges of courage. 

I found little about poverty in his background except the millions he gets heading a poverty group. But there are numerous letters to the editor in which he spends large amounts of time denigrating the North Carolina legislature and the governor (whom he has practically called a segregationist). My question: Does he have any time for teaching? Was it two hours last week?

Of course, it is his right to do these things. But not on my tax dollars. He should resign, get in politics, run for office, become an attacker for the Democrats and work with the American Civil Liberties Union to keep any mention of God out of schools (But he already is). I find that disgusting.

P.H. Craig

Chapel Hill

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