Posted on 04/27/2009 12:18:52 PM PDT by topher
Gandhi would be proud!
I know I am.
Those football players do not deserve to be paid. They have cost the school 10.2 million in dinations.
I don't know why you say "unfortunately." They don't know anything at Notre Dame that you can't learn somewhere else, and by choosing intelligently you can at least stand a chance of getting a Christian or christian-compatible education.
I guess some folks don’t want to support lapsed institutions.
Which I'm sure you know.......
Exactly as I predicted. Yes it was easy, but I was still right.
I sent the President of ND a really negative letter telling him that Obama has just proven how cheap his values are. I told him that instead of feeling honored by BO choosing to speak there he should be ashamed that he accepted since Obama is thumbing his nose at the institution he (the ND President) had devoted his life’s work to.
Miss California has more courage than the ND President.
Ooh. That’s gonna’ leave a mark.
I am looking forward to seeing the list of those who are offered this year's second-hand award and refuse it. If anyone accepts it, he will be looked upon by serious Catholics as an apprentice of Judas Iscariot, and by careerists as a grasping second-rater. ND will be seen as a jilted lady whose desperate pride spurs her to rush into the arms of the next suitor.
As president, Fr. Jenkins is the college's salesman-in-chief. In this economy, the problem it poses for him to come up $8 million or more short because of this lapse of judgment and leadership cannot be overestimated. It's going to be a long Board meeting. For appearances' sake, they may not can him at this meeting, but can him they will.
My guess is that the search for a new Pres. will officially (quietly) get underway after graduation, and that Fr. Jenkins will resign "to pursue other opportunities" within 18 months.
Miss California has more courage than the ND President.
That would work for a tagline.
Thank you for that link. Mary Ann Glendon gave a wonderful response to the President of Norte Dame. Well reasoned and intelligent. That should really give pause to Fr. Jenkins, but I doubt it well.
For a university with a $9 billion endowment, $8.2 million is almost unnoticeable. Try harder, Alums!
One of the justifications for inviting Obama was because was the first African American president...
Prejudice based on the color of a person's skin...
Now if Adolf Hitler had been black, then we could honor him -- by the same logic...
“The process of verifying the largest donors has been carefully conducted,” DiFranco explained. “We dismissed the obvious bogus submissions, and are not counting a huge number of larger donations that we are still in the process of verifying. We are speaking directly with donors, and in several cases we have spoken with estate attorneys to confirm that Notre Dame has been stripped from a donor’s will. We are going about this process with a critical eye in order that that the numbers we report are accurate. For that reason, the $8.2 million we are reporting today is actually very conservative.”
Idiots.
Money ALWAYS talks.
Outright blasphemy and disgusting.
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