18 Faculty Demand Changes to University of South Purpose Statement

VirtueOnline ^ | 5/16/06 | David Virtue

[SimmerSaint]

SEWANEE, TN: 18 Faculty Demand Changes to University of South Purpose Statement

More Justice, Less Christ

By David W. Virtue www.virtueonline.org

SEWANEE, TN: (5/16/2006)--Eighteen liberal faculty at the University of the South, the Episcopal Church's only owned university, are proposing major changes to the university's purpose statement that would effectively destroy its Christian mission and Episcopal distinctiveness.

[eyespysomething]

You have to use the actual title of the article for the thread. You can use your own for post #1.

[Old_Mil]

I'm surprised that a university affiliated with that "church" would even claim to have a Christian mission at this late date. I can't really find much fault with the actions of these professors, they are probably only formalizing a state of affairs that has existed on that campus for years.

[mrs tiggywinkle]

Actual Title:

18 Faculty Demand Changes to University of South Purpose Statement

[Zack Nguyen]

I doubt there is any insanity involved. Just good ol'
fashioned religious liberalism, doing its very quiet but wholly destructive work.

[dynachrome]

My grandparents stopped attending the Episcopal church when the Book of Common Prayer got changed many years ago.
Little did they know....

(A side note: If you change the title of an article in your post, ya might get slapped around by the mods. Take heed from one who got slapped around. Your new title is MORE truthful, however.)

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

no more mr. nice guy. these people should be out on their collective ears. It is time to crush our enemies and hear the lamentation of their woman!

[Paleo Conservative]

I think the 18 faculty members should be burnt at the stake.

[Redbob]

No surprise from the Church that has brought us a queer (and alcoholic) bishop.

That's why our church call ourselves "Anglican."

[CheyennePress]

There are actually quite a few very religious Christians who go there. I know at least a dozen. I'm surprised this is flying there; that's very solid conservative territory. Beautiful campus on a mountaintop.

[CheyennePress]

This infuriates me. What business do these clowns have showing up and tearing apart a university? Episcopalians built that university, put their thought, their time, their fortunes, and their ingenunity to work to bring it to life and give it a mission.

Now these snot-nosed idiots think that they have the right to overwrite all that they did to meet their own, selfish ends.

Perhaps someone should remind these idiots that they're destroying the diversity of America's instutions of "higher" learning with their attempts to standardize all these schools into one secular (and meaningless) model.

[Robwin]

Episcopalians? Say, at one time didn't they used to be Christians?

[little jeremiah]

List, maybe.

[ChessExpert]

Justice. hmm. What kind? Is that Judao-Christian justice? Or social(ism) justice? The latter has often required government theft and murder, which are prohibited by the former.

[GOP Jedi]

Dadgummit, Seiters was a professor of mine when I was on the Mountain. Wish he'd stick to teaching language and leave the Churchin' to those what know it.

That must be where the female Muslim chaplain comes in.

I don't like to hear a lot of this is coming from the new hires. That tells me they've got their damn beachhead now and are stacking the faculty with their clones. Just like Harvard and the rest...

Next we'll be hearing the Order of Gownsmen is being replaced by the Order of Gownspersons. But that's just a weak joke. It hurts to see the rot that's set in on my beautiful Mountain. The ground is no longer fertile there, alas, and the seed will be choked out.

[SimmerSaint]

Here is Sewanee’s MS. TAM PARKER, one of the infamous Gang of 18, in her finest academic glory. A normal person cannot understand what the #%&@# she is talking about. What utter nonsense and rotten piffle. If she is who is teaching our children in the Sewanee classroom, then our bloodlines are doomed. The enemy sits on the Throne, howling with glee!!! Who pays these people?

http://www.aarweb.org/Annualmeet/2002/pbook/abstract.asp?ANum=A234

Survival of the Closest: Gender and Agency in Holocaust Resistance

Tam Parker, University of the South

This paper examines the rhetorical construction and representation of women’s agency in Holocaust victim resistance. I focus upon Charlotte Delbo’s Auschwitz and After which describes the performance of surrogate familial relations between women prisoners. In Delbo’s memoir, we hear a recounting of death and survival in which individual volition and will power are displaced by interpersonal aid and the failure of aid as its moral axis. The maintenance and disruption of camp-familial relation suggests an axiological schema wherein solidarity and care are the foundations upon which individual will falters or abides. This analysis seeks to redress trends within victim morality scholarship that emphasize the capacity of choice as the defining variable between muselmanner and survivor. The final section of this paper will address the ways in which in my usage and perhaps in Delbo’s text itself, the rhetoric of mutuality serves to console the reader where no consolation is possible.