The administration should ask one, simple question:
Please detail your compelling reasons regarding why you chose to attend Washington and Lee college?
I got to know why they want to go to a racist school, too. That would be like whites going to Mandela and Obama University and demanding they are racist.(Of course, they are.) Or conservatives going to Lenin Stalin Mao Obama University of Marxist theory.
In his public statements and private correspondence, Lee argued that a tone of reconciliation and patience would further the interests of white Southerners better than hotheaded antagonism to federal authority or the use of violence. Lee repeatedly expelled white students from Washington College for violent attacks on local black men, and publicly urged obedience to the authorities and respect for law and order. In 1869–70 he was a leader in successful efforts to establish state-funded schools for blacks. He privately chastised fellow ex-Confederates such as Jefferson Davis and Jubal Early for their frequent, angry responses to perceived Northern insults, writing in private to them as he had written to a magazine editor in 1865, that "It should be the object of all to avoid controversy, to allay passion, give full scope to reason and to every kindly feeling. By doing this and encouraging our citizens to engage in the duties of life with all their heart and mind, with a determination not to be turned aside by thoughts of the past and fears of the future, our country will not only be restored in material prosperity, but will be advanced in science, in virtue and in religion."Knee-jerk liberals who can only bleat a simplistic mantra of "Confederacy equals bad!" don't have an actual clue at all about the life and wisdom of general Lee.