The administration should ask one, simple question:
Please detail your compelling reasons regarding why you chose to attend Washington and Lee college?
Why did you people choose that School the name alone says it all. Transfer!
Tell them to shut up and go home and do their homework.
The students “demanded”... oooohh we got us some badasses over here.
This Yankee has never seen anything to suggest that Lee was anything other than an Honorable man and excellent military leader.
If the university bends to the will of seven neo-Nazi fascists, the rest of the students ought to transfer out in protest.
One of these days, the minorities are gonna wake up and discover that Whitey ain’t gonna play their games no more. Then they are going to be in for a shiite-load of trouble.
(Yawn) Young minds filled with mush. I can hardly wait for concerned students at William and Mary to start marching against British imperialism.
This W&L grad always liked Lee-Jackson Day. There was a nice parade. Everyone loves a parade.
It does make me wonder, though, what these people thought they were getting into when they signed up to attend W&L. Did they not visit the campus? Lee (and Traveller) is buried on campus, for goodness sakes. The “Committee” is all Yankees, no doubt.
I doubt they’ll get a lot of traction. Lee was very, very good to the school, and, particularly the undergraduate campus, is pretty conservative.
Tell them to go walk in the Forrest..................
It is not that they have a strange and eccentric viewpoint. It is that they are threatening to cause mischief, if the viewpoint of the institution, and most of its students continues to be respected--a form of blackmail, which should justify that expulsion.
William Flax
Oh vey. These idiots don’t realize Lee, who was Superintendent of West Point, turned what was then Washington Univ into a modern university. If it wasn’t for Lee’s reforms there might not even be a University.
Expel them. Problem solved.
Lee freed his slaves long before there was a Confederacy and long before many Union officers did.
These “students” need to read a history book. Lee freed his slaves before the Civil War. He actually was asked by Lincoln to be the general for the Union, but he was loyal to VA. He was an honorable man.
... have absolutely no idea what constitutes honor or dishonor.
Everything about whiny liberal behavior is devoid of honor.
Next you’ll hear students dismay that there are Blacks at Tuskegee or Mormans at Bringham Youn.
We need a “White Appreciation Day.” Yeah, we know our history isn’t perfect but you’ve got a long list of things to thank us for ... that cell phone? Was it developed in Africa? What about your TV or computer? Were air conditioners and heaters developed in Mexico? What about electricity? Was it the Africans that first built automobiles? Planes?
They don’t want a “White Appreciation Day” because it would prove overly embarrassing because whites have contributed so much.
I am sick of everything being about RACE.
Whenever particular political figures came into favour in the Soviet Union, they had cities, mountains and buildings named for them.
When they fell out of favour (and their corpses on the ground), their names were expunged as if they had never been, and the cycle repeated itself with the next round of favourites turned pariahs.
Will this be the fate of Washington and Lee (both dead white male Christian slaveholders, and therefore anathema to academe as a whole), and so many other places?
Will it become Obama and Milk, perhaps, to honour the current favourites of the day? And when they fall from grace with the progressive elites, will their names too be expunged and new favourites so honoured?
I suppose they’ll want to rename Lee Chapel on campus, along perhaps with the disinterment of the General himself and the horse he rode in on.
W&L is a private institution. Expulsion would be appropriate for these lil’ illiterate blow-hards.