The foolishness and seditious idiocy that we see at our colleges is something worth fighting against. We need to consider a different and I believe more effective approach than just complaining...dragging the trustees into the daylight and forcing them to deal. For instance, at this link: https://trustees.duke.edu/board-trustees-2018-2019 you can find the trustees for Duke. While the monument issue may not rise to the level of some of the more egregious problems we have seen (denial of conservatives the right of free speech, denial of freedom of religion etc.), you can see from the link who these people are. They and others at colleges across the country have been in the shadows too long. Time to out them and have them deal with what’s going on at their universities. At many colleges, these guys have the power to discipline and sometimes, fire the college president. I believe this is the approach we now need to consider. And while I’m on a roll here, let me put on the table of our national discourse something else that needs to happen to turn academia around - to ultimately purge it of the loony leftist 3rd world egg head bed-wetters who are indoctrinating our kids....tenure has to go.
The Methodist church in North Carolina has to approve
about a third of Duke’s trustees. They never do anything but rubber-stamp the list they are given.
But,the residual power to make a change is there, if ever they choose to do so. I doubt they will, given the MC’s
radical left bent. But, it is possible.
Otherwise, since no one can become a Duke trustee without having his/her name submitted by the rest of the trustees,
Duke has a self-perpetuating oligarchy.