Once upon a time, this website was used as a resource for students in my courses. However, in the spring of 2009, a very disturbed individual (at some site called ztruth) stumbled onto this site and chose to mix my personal and professional identity with that of another website owner. The owner of ztruth chose to make numerous allegations about me - the vast majority of which were false. Ztruth never bothered to contact me in order to fact check her allegations. To set the record straight, it is true that as an undergraduate college student I was both a member and an officer in two clubs, Young Democrats and the Coalition Against Apartheid. It is also true that I once published poetry. The poem excerpt that ztruth chose to use was an existentialist musing on romantic love, in part inspired by the one-act plays of Tennessee Williams. It is a shame that ztruth only chose to steal the first few lines in order to mislead her readers. Furthermore, it is true that I am the author of the article that the owner of ztruth pirated from a peer-review academic journal. In addition to pirating the article, ztruth succeeded in misinterpreting the article's findings and conclusions, once more misleading her audience. Finally, it is true that I have been a state employee in higher education for quite a number of years. It is unfortunate that ztruth chose to demonstrate a complete misunderstanding of the nature of higher education or its value to those who seek it. The rest of what the owner of ztruth claims is mine is entirely unrecognizable to me, and would be unrecognizable to those who know me. As someone who gladly signed an oath proclaiming my allegiance to the US Constitution as a condition of employment numerous years ago, I think it is safe to conclude that my leanings are more of a "law and order" variety.

The owner of ztruth also made sure to publish my personal contact information, I suppose as a means of encouraging harassment of me, my coworkers, family, and students.

Needless to say, the unwanted attention from this disturbed individual convinced me that it was in the best interest of me, my family, my coworkers, and my students to move all course content to a more secure location. Word to the wise: there are a lot of people out there who have my last name and the first initials, A and J. Since moderation is my nature, I shall refrain from saying much more than that. If you are a former student who had come here hoping to find course lecture notes or web resources, I apologize for the inconvenience.