If this were my alma mater I would be calling everyone I knew from my college days and urging them to write to the college President and withhold all financial support until this idiot were at least censured if not kicked out.
Can you imagine the ruckus if a conservative tore down one of the peacenicks banners because he was offended?
Good luck. I tried to get something similar going with the University of Texas, where both my parents graduated, but it's looking like a wasted effort. THE UNIVERSITIES DON'T CARE.
Mom told me that when she was a freshman at UT in the fifties, they all had to take an oath and swear they'd never become communists :D. Now UT gives tenure to a communist dickweed like Robert Jensen, who just doesn't know when to shut up.
What is really outrageous about this whole incident is that they have six alumni listed on their site that were killed in this attack. Withholding financial support? I say any school that refuses to display this country's flag should not receive any federal aid! The good professor doesn't seem to care if part of his salary is paid through the finances of our government. Does that "offend" his students? Whoever is in charge of hiring/firing him should take his britches and burn them on a flagpole.
Yes, there are at least two of us here. I'm trying to get to the bottom of the story and find out what, if anything, the school plans to do. I've made inquiries through a couple of my friends who still have good contacts on campus and I have sent a message to a professor whom I respect. I expect that the school's alumni will be provided with a more extensive briefing on this via e-mail or snail mail. I'll share if I hear anything interesting. For what its worth, I suspect that this incident is going to upset quite a few of the alumni.
For those of you who don't know the school, Holy Cross is a small Jesuit college (approximately 2,500 students) located in the working class city of Worcester, Massachusetts. Most of its students come from middle class and upper middle class Irish and Italian Catholic families. When I graduated fifteen years ago, 80 percent of the students were from Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York or New Jersey. Politically, most alumni lay someplace between moderate Democrat and moderate Republican and believe in the American Dream. We tend to marry (often someone from HC), have kids and raise 'em Catholic. Often we end up in the professions as doctors, lawyers and accountants. Many of my classmates participated in AFROTC, NROTC and ROTC and remain on active duty today. Our alumni include Clarence Thomas, Joseph Califano, Bob Cousey and Chris Matthews. One of our Jesuits, Father Joseph T. O'Callahan, was the first chaplain to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions aboard USS Franklin. He is buried in the Jesuit Cemetary at the school. The student body today is pretty similar demographically to the description which appears above.
We are a small school and the alumni tend to remain close. At least six graduates died on September 11 and most of us either knew or have friends who knew the victims. I think that Professor Singleton's actions will upset the alumni and the school is going to have to do provide us with an explanation of his actions (and those of his colleagues) and the college's response to them. I expect there will be a serious, thinking and satisfactory response to Singleton by the school, although I doubt it will be the firing squad that many here would like. I think the alumni will demand some action and given the school's exceedingly high alumni participation rates in fund raising (51% of all alumni made donations this year to the school) something will happen.