Posted on 07/07/2020 1:18:23 PM PDT by Perseverando
I’m sure they have done the numbers. Some alumni will continue to cough up. Any gap in alumni giving will be covered by leftist foundations actively seeking to influence “change”.
When the budget cuts come -- and they're coming -- a bunch of the barnacles are going to get scraped off while complaining that the boat is being destroyed.
Are they gonna burn the grounds while they’re at it?
Washington and Lee University was originally called “Augusta Academy” and then years later became a college,”Liberty Hall”, in c 1776 and my greatgreatgreat...nth great uncles Gen. Andrew Lewis and Thomas Lewis were two of the founding trustees then. Andrew died in 1781 and Thomas died in 1790.
It wasn’t named Washington and Lee University until about 1870.
The trustees are probably terrified of cancel culture if they don’t vote right. Many have children of their own. The “progressive” elites are in charge.
I was going to say that they should wait a bit on this. As fast as history is being revised by BLM and their allies, Washington might have to expunged as well.
“Woke U”
Good point.
Are they changing the name of Stonewall Jackson Hospital?
‘Or they could keep the name and say they’re named for Denzel and Spike...…’
there’s an idea...
Since they want to re-brand, I hear the name “Aunt Jemima” is available.
The majority of W&L alumni are conservatives, and they give very generously to the university. The university will be throwing away a ton of donated money if they go ahead with a name change. The leftist professors will get what they want: to help eliminate one of the few remaining predominantly center-right student bodies at a non-religious university by advertising their leftism. But the university will suffer for it. And so will the community, because Lee and Stonewall Jackson sites are the main tourist attractions in town. Hopefully, the trustees won’t be this insane.
Yeah and I’m from Amherst County, Virginia. No plans to rename it.
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I notice that the aforementioned 79% of the faculty sure don’t mind getting those sweet paychecks with “Washington and Lee University” on the top. You feel that strongly, you jackasses? Go somewhere else. In fact, please, DO go somewhere else. Quit polluting Lexington.
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How about Davis & Schickelgruber?
John B. Floyd was a much less important Confederate general than Robert E. Lee.
‘Lord Jeffrey Amherst gave smallpox infected blankets to the Native Americans in one of the first known uses of biological warfare, and committed genocide.’
and not only that, I’ll bet he didn’t wear a mask while he was doing it; we ought to dig him up and put him in jail for a year...
Lee freed his slaves in his own lifetime (before the war) while Washington only freed them in his will (to take effect on his wife’s death).
Toody and Muldoon. Nothing taught there would be recognized by Washington or Lee anyways.
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