Posted on 04/20/2012 6:05:38 AM PDT by SumProVita
One of the (many) great advantages of living in Tennessee is a legislature with a backbone. As regular Corner readers may remember, I’ve been reporting on a showdown here in Tennessee between Vanderbilt University, its religious students, and concerned alumni. The university has decided that its religious organizations are subject to a so-called “all-comers” policy and must be open to non-Christian leadership. At the same time, it has exempted the university’s powerful Greek organizations — allowing the campus’s most discriminatory groups to exist unmolested.
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This is shaping up to be a larger battle. Check out the legislative threat given to Vanderbilt.....and the resulting threat to the legislature given by Vanderbilt. Unbelievable.
Universities are, by their very nature, discriminatory because they don’t allow everyone to attend. They discriminate against people with low IQ’s.
They discriminate against people with low IQ’s.”
That is, except for those that they make President, Deans of students, and tenured faculty.
But other than that, that would be correct....
It’s far more likely that they discriminate between students who work and those who don’t. Discrimination is not always negative.
(Comparing Apples and Oranges?)
This is getting interesting. I’ll make the popcorn.
They why do they hire (and even give tenure) to so many lowQI’s and IQs?
Most all of our great Universities were founded upon the Word of God, and by Ministers(servants) of our Lord.
Check out the founders of Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Princeton,etc. (By the way, the first school in Tennessee was founded by a Presbyterian Pastor!)
When they are no more; then these godless educational will be no more!
All my Alma Maters, (VMI, UCSD, Vandy Med School) have gone over to the Dark Side, and will never get a dollar in contributions.
If I had it to do over again, and know what I know now, I might have applied for Hillsdale College for undergrad.
The Marxists have been very effective.
I wonder what would happen if Christian students, en mass, joined the LGBTQI organizations and ran for leadership positions, started setting the agenda, organizing the events......
When the PC became the Mod; the PC crowd wanted to push out the JC supporters and founders!
The media crowds cry “PC(politically correct),and we will not have the JC (Jesus Christ) followers to reign over us!
I wonder what would happen if Christian students, en mass, joined the LGBTQI organizations and ran for leadership positions, started setting the agenda, organizing the events......
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Lol! That thought has occurred to me as well.
I can. Eric Holder or The Dog Eater, anybody?
THAT is what needs to happen. Christians need to infiltrate these other organizations. -see how long before they change their tune- lol
While I largely agree with your position, you are VERY mistaken with regards to Cornell—at least if you are speaking of Cornell University. Ezra Cornell was a very rich atheist, and while Cornell College in Iowa was named after him in hopes of getting his money behind the project, he didn’t bit because it was religious. Cornell University’s founding documents were not religious and very much aimed at keeping religion out—no denomination was to ever have a majority on the board of trustees. There was no theology department—and the secular environment was such that even religious studies (which is hardly theology)did not begin to get off the ground until the late 1980’s—I was in the very first group of recipients of a concentration (Cornellese for a minor)in religious studies in 1991—thanks to cross listed courses. A major became possible a following year.
That said, I heartily agree that religion generally is in the lead when it comes to education for education’s sake (as opposed to R&D and job training). Places like Cornell are largely a secular echo.
This problem at Vanderbilt PROVES that Animal House was not fictional!
The rules for Double Secret probation are that you have to take off your britches and engage in a short arm inspection ~ for most folks they’d just walk away from the idea of being an LBQT for a Day.
...and except for Hollywood stars, and people with piles of cash that they can dump on their Alma Mater...
You are right, to mention Cornell was my error. Thanks for the correction. I had another early University in mind but my memory has failed me. (Just turned 78 last March 25)
I like you word just an “echo.” I have been saying all the other Universities are just “copy-cats” of the original real founders.
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