College board gets an earful (W&M Cross)

Washington Times ^ | 2-9-07 | Sonja Barisic

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WILLIAMSBURG -- The removal of a cross from the College of William & Mary's chapel has inspired petitions, letters to the editor, opinion columns and Web journal entries. Yesterday, a half-dozen critics and supporters of President Gene R. Nichol's decision to put the cross in storage had the chance to express their opinions to the public school's Board of Visitors. The board, which previously deferred to Mr. Nichol's judgment, did not take any action. But Rector Michael K. Powell said board members had received numerous communications about the cross and thought it was important to invite people on both sides to speak during the meeting. "It's only fitting to do so in the finest traditions of respectable academic discourse," Mr. Powell said. He also asked the president's recently created committee studying the issue to report its findings at the next board meeting, in April.

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Amazing how falsehood, heresy, and revisionism are given equal standing with truth. Just granting that "equality" is an indication of how these "fair and balanced" proceedings will conclude.