It’s probably safe to assume this prof is not at a public university. Otherwise, they’d have him licking Kyle’s boots inside of an hour.
Wrong. He is a professor at the University of North Carolina - Wilmington. But he has tenure (which he had to sue to get, since they tried to deny it to him because he was a Christian and a conservative), so they really can't "make" him do anything...
He is at a public university -- UNC Wilmington. He has fought and recently won a very public and difficult battle to become tenured as a conservative who was clearly discriminated against in a liberal faculty. His outspoken columns have taken on the idiocies of political correctness on campuses across the nation. I believe this column uses a fictional type of student to discuss a point about whether to coddle young adult students or not.
I agree with your point about the typically politically correct response one might expect had Adams not won that battle so recently (and I believe the university is appealing). It's amazing to me to read the howls of pain by some of the other posters on here about Adams wanting such a fictional student to make the grade without extra help he has not earned a right to.
University of North Carolina is public.
He teaches Criminal Justice. The student was asking for an injustice and the professor gave him a lesson. Individual attention in a University is a valuable thing, “Kyle” should take the lesson to heart.