Radical Left-wing activism continues to run out of control at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln (UNL). The University’s administration continues to turn a blind eye, instead of dealing honestly with the illicit behavior of its own faculty members. The unhinged behavior of the faculty will continue to worsen until University President, Hank Bounds, and Chancellor, Ronnie Green, are finally forced to deal with it.

Certain events unfolded last week in Lincoln, linking a Left-wing, activist professor at UNL to illegal behavior. While it should be needless for me to have to say that any kind of deviant or illicit behavior is inappropriate for a university professor, the University’s administration doesn’t seem to care. Meanwhile, the reputation of the University of Nebraska – Lincoln continues to slide into the cesspool of radical, Left-wing political activism, including illicit acts of vandalism.

On February 20th Patricia A. Wonch-Hill was arrested and ticketed for three counts of vandalism. Hill is an assistant research professor of Sociology at UNL. Hill was ticketed for putting googly eyes on two of U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry’s campaign signs and using a piece of tape to change the “o” in his name to an “a”, insinuating that his name refers to human flatulence. She was also ticketed for putting fake blood and “Betsy Riot” stickers on the front door of Sen. Deb Fischer’s office. According to the Lincoln Police Department Hill’s fingerprints were found at all three locations; thus, linking her to these three crimes.

This was not the first time Patricia A. Wonch-Hill has been charged with an illegal act of vandalism, though. Last year Hill was found guilty in a Virginia court for spraying fake blood on the house of Chris Cox, a spokesman for the National Rifle Association. While in Virginia Hill also harassed Cox’s wife by passing out anti-gun pamphlets in front of her place of business.

Patricia A. Wonch-Hill also took over as president of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) one year ago after ousting former president, Donna Duffner, who served for only one month, in order to censure UNL for terminating Courtney Lawton, the graduate teaching assistant who harassed Kaitlyn Mullen. UNL has remained on the AAUP’s list of censured universities since May 2018.

In the world outside of academia employees are expected to represent well the business they work for. Illegal behavior is not tolerated because it tarnishes the reputation of the company. I expect no less from our flagship university. As a land grant university, Patricia A. Wonch-Hill does not just represent the university who signs her paychecks, she also represents the State of Nebraska.

In response to Hill’s arrest last week by the Lincoln Police Department, University of Nebraska spokesman, Leslie Reed, said in a written statement that the University does not “condone vandalism” and that the situation is “…a personal legal matter based on actions of a faculty member on their own time, and they will have to take accountability for their actions based on the outcome of the legal process.” In other words, “We don’t want to deal with it.”

When our Founding Father, Abraham Baldwin, a man of high moral character who signed the U.S. Constitution, founded the College of Georgia in 1785, which later became the University of Georgia, he wrote in the school’s original charter that “…civil order should be the result of choice and not of necessity…” By saying this, he did not mean that civility is always a matter of personal choice; instead, he meant that when civility is the result of good moral character, it does not have to be regulated or coerced. Unfortunately, the lack of action by the administration at UNL to confront the behavior of its own faculty continues to reduce civility to a matter of necessity, rather than choice. Unfortunately, UNL will never restore a sense of civility among its own faculty until it is finally forced to do so.

Patricia A. Wonch-Hill

2011 arrest in Lincoln County, NE for DUI