[marshmallow]

This is the picture which headlines the article.

I think it's self explanatory and tells us all we need to know about the publication's objectivity.

[marshmallow]

Oh and here's an even better one which accompanies the article.

Just look at these whacked out Catholics, will ya??!!

Don't attend Ave Maria folks, or you might end up like this!!

[BlueDragon]

I think it's self explanatory and tells us all we need to know about the publication's objectivity.

You'll find some agreement concerning the slant of the photos, from someone who actually knows about the goings one there, from http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2011-10-27/news/reader-mail-ave-maria-university-is-like-rehab-for-smug-catholics/, but otherwise, she claims the article is basically factual;

Photo lies: Your story about U.S. Senate candidate Marielena Stuart's complaints about Catholic university Ave Maria ("Stepford U," Michael E. Miller, October 20) used a broad brush. I know many of the facts were accurate, at least the ones I lived, but is it fair to present only the negative like this? It was myopically focused on the problems. And what's with the cover photo used to depict students? The article wasn't even about them! It seemed like an unnecessary low blow.

Kate Ernsting

Ms. Ernsting was featured in the article;

In May 2004, the DOE ordered Ave Maria to pay back $259,000 in financial aid and fines, but Ernsting's cooperation and hustle kept prosecutors happy and staved off criminal charges. Yet she was fired, so several weeks later she filed a whistleblower lawsuit. In a deposition, Monaghan claimed, "What [Ernsting] reported was slanted and erroneous and maybe even malicious."

"The whole thing was kind of a nightmare for me," says Ernsting, who nearly went bankrupt because Monaghan's lawyers delayed the trial for five years. "These were people that I loved. I still have very warm feelings for Tom Monaghan... but I knew brushing it under the rug wasn't right either." Monaghan declined to comment for this article.

Here's something coming from none other than "Ave Maria's new president and CEO" "Jim Towey...a former assistant to Mother Teresa";

"This is a very unique arrangement here. It's almost like what you would see in medieval times when a baron would go and build himself a church and monastery."

I found the article to be chock-a-block FULL of stuff like that, that fairly leap off the page.

Just waving one's hands at the photo the Miami publication used, dismissing all the rest, is to bury one's head in the sand, concerning all the rest.

The Broward/Palm Beach New Times version didn't use the weird photos.

http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2011-10-20/news/ave-maria-a-catholic-university-experiment-in-the-everglades-gone-wrong/

Here's some more, from the in-case-you-missed-it department;

Monaghan had built himself a church; now he wanted to name his own pastor. The bishop refused to let him. The building had been largely unused for a year. "The only times they would open it was for tours or concerts," Stuart says. "And that was so people could donate money." The church now has a priest but to this day retains its ignominious title as the world's only "quasi oratory" — uncertified church.

[x]

Owned by Village Voice Media.

VVM was getting sued because online ads it runs promote and provide essential services to child prostitution, but a judge threw out the case.

[Notwithstanding]

Looks like this Marielena woman is a pariah.

http://www.aveherald.com/news/934-scant-financial-support-for-ave-maria-residents-us-senate-bid.html

Scant Financial Support for Ave Maria Resident’s U.S. Senate Bid

Tuesday, 25 October 2011 10:59

The long-shot bid for the Republican nomination for U.S. senate by Ave Maria resident Marielena Stuart has failed to attract much interest from people willing to support her financially, according to documents filed with the Federal Elections Commission.

Campaign finance reports show that Mrs. Stuart had just $51 in her campaign account as of Sept. 30, the lowest amount of any candidate who filed a quarterly report by the Oct. 15 deadline. She raised only $615 from donors other than herself or her husband in the third quarter of 2011 and her reports show no donations from anyone in the town of Ave Maria, where she is best known.

As would be expected, the top-tier candidates in the race raised the bulk of the money.

Adam Hasner raised $545,000 in the third quarter and had $786,000 in cash on hand. George Lemieux raised $403,000 and had more than $1 million cash on hand. Craig Miller raised $235,000 in the quarter and had $145,000 cash as of Sept. 30.

Fundraising by all Republican candidates paled in comparison to incumbent Democrat Bill Nelson who raised almost $2 million in the third quarter and has about $7.5 million in cash on hand.

Full copies of the FEC financial disclosure information can be viewed at www.fec.gov.

[Antoninus]

Rice adds that, before leaving the law school, he warned Monaghan that his idea for a strictly Catholic town to host the university was impossible. "Tom had this concept of a place with no pornography, no contraceptives," he says. "I told him right up front that there is no way he could do that. It would be unconstitutional."

This line told me all I needed to know. So porn and contraceptives are mandated by the Constitution, eh? How novel.

[ichabod1]

I didn’t like that they called it a “monstrous” church and said the clerestory window looked like a “cyclops eye”.