This evening a concerned Cedarville University student who does
not wish to remain anonymous forwarded to us an unsolicited e-mail message advertisement she received from an unknown sender encouraging her to disseminate misleading information created by Dr. Raymond Bartholomew and listed on his website, cedarvillesituation.com.

The message forwarded to us by Jessica Peck (screenshot at the right) came from an anonymous source and it encourages the recipient to visit cedarvillesituation.com and it also claims that "
You won't hear about this stuff on campus, be sure to pass it along." Furthermore, Jessica wrote that she never subscribed to a mailing list, she has no idea why she received the email message or who sent the message.
Thank you Jessica for notifying us of this attempt to disseminate misleading information, done now via illegal means. The Ohio Revised Code section
§ 2307.64 titled Electronic mail advertisments specifically states that the unsolicited mail needs to contain:
(a) The person's name and complete residence or business address and the electronic mail address of the person transmitting the electronic mail advertisement;
and
(b) A notice that the recipient may decline to receive from the person transmitting or causing to be transmitted the electronic mail advertisement any additional electronic mail advertisements and a detailed procedure for declining to receive any additional electronic mail advertisements at no cost. (source)
The small and vocal group of Cedarville critics has now decided, due to the effectiveness of
Cedarville: Liver to use illegal means to promote their criticism. Since breaking Ohio laws is now apparently acceptable in their eyes, we here at
Cedarville: Liver call on Mark Dann, the Ohio Attorney General to work together with Google and Cedarville University to investigate this SPAM attack against Cedarville University students and enforce existing Ohio laws. Remember, these are the same individuals complaining about the "illegal termination" of Dr. David Hoffeditz, yet now they are not hesitating to use illegal methods to attack the school.
Secondly, the latest link posted on the
cedarvillesituation.com site includes salary information for several Cedarville University employees for year 2006.

(the link to this salary information has been removed since but we attached a screenshot here to the right) The information is used to create the perception that Dr. Brown, Dr. Dixon and Dr. Milliman are overpaid. Let us look at the numbers:
Dr. Paul Dixon (chancellor) was compensated $220,108
Dr. William Brown (president) was compensated $170,000
Dr. Robert Milliman (Academic VP) was compensated $110,000
Let us compare those figures with figures from other universities. The Chronicle of Higher Education (a publication used by the critics to bolster their position) published some salary statistics for year 2007 (Baptist schools in red):
President of Dallas Baptist was compensated
$481,620 President of Asuza Pacific was compensated
$408,231 President of California Baptist was compensated
$368,537President of Wheaton was compensated
$338,049 President of Biola was compensated
$310,984President of Oral Roberts was compensated
$306,054President of Seattle Pacific was compensated $297,213
President of Puget Sound was compensated $410,683
President of Pacific Lutheran was compensated $324,281
President of Northeastern U. (2005-2005) was compensated $2.8 million
President of Philadelphia U. was compensated $2.5 million (
source)
To compare the local market of Christian higher-learning institutions, we were able to discover that the salary of the University of Dayton president Daniel Curran was $336,620 in 2005 while the Basketball coach was compensated $484,342 (
source)
Unlike the critics, we are sourcing all our research and we are providing evidence to show that
the Cedarville University administration are being compensated substantially less than all other organizations discussed in the Chronicle of Higher Education survey and also less than a local university which is more than three times larger than Cedarville University (University of Dayton).
The critics must be aware by now that they are losing the battle of public opinion; their actions are indicative of panic and immense frustration. Posting salary information and falsely insinuating that administration members are overpaid have nothing to do with the dismissal of Dr. David Hoffeditz or with the debate on certainty and truth.