The University of the S**th

Lewrockwell.com ^ | May 28, 2004 | Gail Jarvis

[Tax-chick]

Damned pretty setting

I agree ... maybe someday they'll sell out to a conservative organization, and then I could go there :-). The local wine is good, too.

[stainlessbanner]

How 'bout "North" and "God's Country"?

[vmoney]

Long Live the South...we shall rise again

[GOP Jedi]

A wonderful university where the classical education was king (Latin, Greek, and British lit!), and the buffeting and destructive winds of PC little more than rattled the shutters. But as VMI and the Citadel fell, I knew it was only a matter of time.

Sigh. I attended Sewanee when Reagan was president. It seems I've now lost both in a short space of time.

"I will not walk with your progressive apes,
erect and sapient. Before them gapes
the dark abyss to which their progress tends --
if by God's mercy progress ever ends,
and does not ceaselessly revolve the same
unfruitful course with changing of a name."
J.R.R. Tolkien

[tallhappy]

Long Live the South...we shall rise again

You think the South is down?

[DannyTN]

Possibilities:

They can become the University of the Damn Yankees. However my guess is that they currently serve a demographic that would be offended by that.

They can remove the South from their name, but their location in the South may be offensive as well. So perhaps they should move.

• They could move to Chicago and see if their PR firms likes them any better.
• They could move to San Francisco and embrace decidely non-southern values such as Homosexuality.
• Or perhaps they should just embrace being the University of the South, let loose with a rebel yell and put their foot up the backsides of a certain PR firm.

[Fifth Business]

Episcopal ping

[Mountain Monster]

The absolutely absurdity of socialist driven, politcal correctness never ceases to amaze me.

[JoJo Gunn]

You certainly add a strange tone to this thread.

[babyface00]

How 'bout "North" and "God's Country"?

Works for me, but I'm sure the ACLU will complain. Better call it "Allah's Country". They'd be OK with that.

[wardaddy]

Well....they are Episcopalians.....I'm sorry for those that have to put up with that crap.

Nice pics dear....where are you?

[wardaddy]

VMI is bowed a bit but not defeated...yet.

(I was at Parade 6 weeks ago and the sound of female cadets yelping was unnerving)

[ChinaThreat]

Being a proud South Carolinian.......Over my dead body!

[wardaddy]

crenelated with blue coves.

NEW WORD ALERT!

[Tax-chick]

East of Charlotte, NC. We lived in Manchester, TN, when my husband was in graduate school at U.T. Space Institute in Tullahoma. We visited the Institution Formerly Known as the University of the South a couple of times. Places like that - the campus and the setting, not the administration - make me wish I could go back and do college over again, now that I'm old enough to appreciate it!

[PAR35]

Didn't Southern Methodist University in Dallas recently change its name to just "SMU"?

[NewRomeTacitus]

Ms. Dunn was apparently astounded that: "There are, as yet, few courses here in gender studies or human sexuality; the words gay and lesbian don’t appear. There is no major or minor in Women’s Studies, or in African American Studies, there is relatively little non-western material."

Those sounded like positive selling points to me.

[Blood of Tyrants]

You are a waste of an explaination.

[azhenfud]

"North and Not-North, I suppose."

North and Anti-North?

[wardaddy]

you and me both!

freepmail incoming!