[holidayidol]

Just got this email from William & Mary. It's a partial victory against the ACLU-natured Gene Nichol, but the compromise still has a small stench to it.

[CFC__VRWC]

Echos of the South Carolina Confederate flag uproar some years ago. The liberals wanted it removed from the Statehouse grounds, and finally "agreed" to a "compromise" where it would not be flown over the Statehouse, but would be flown on the grounds at a Confederate soldiers memorial.

Guess what, that's not good enough for the left now. They're demanding it be removed completely from the Statehouse grounds. The same thing will happen with this cross in a few years - demands will be made to remove it completely from the campus.

[freekitty]

It appears they had a few big donors that said "No cross, no money".

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Maybe the works of Plato and Aristotle in the library could be placed in a glass case just in case anyone might be offended by their overt frontal display on the shelves. They could then be taken out at certain times on special occasions when someone felt prompted to look into them after which they could be placed back in the case and covered with special felt coverings. A similar reliquary storage could be worked out for the works of Shakespeare, John Locke, Thomas Jefferson, et al., or any offensive issues of National Geographic with which some people might object to on the symbolic level.

[JockoManning]

Ping to WND

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55286

[JockoManning]

BRAVE NEW SCHOOLS
Newspaper says Wren Cross university chief ‘unfit’
College rankings drop as president takes Christian symbol out of chapel

Posted: April 20, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern

College of William & Mary President Gene Nichol, who created a furor by arbitrarily ordering a Christian cross removed from the school’s historic Wren Chapel, is “unfit” for office and his contract should not be renewed, according to an editorial by the staff of The Virginia Informer, the independent student newspaper at the school.

The newspaper noted the university’s recent statistics: the law school ranking dropped from 29th into a tie for 32nd since Nichol arrived, a college donor withdrew a pledge for $12 million, applications have risen by one percent or less, and fundraising plummeted from a 12 percent growth rate to 2 percent...

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55286