Sewanee Faculty Remove Christ

Drell's Descants ^ | 5/16/06 | Leviticus Cause

[SimmerSaint]

Leviticus Cause At Sewanee On Deleting The Reference To The Christian Faith In Sewanee’s Statement Of Purpose

These faculy, whose action is interpreted to mean that the Christian aspirations of the Trustees who approved the current version of the University Purpose aren’t good enough for them, are: Barenbaum, Berebitsky, Brown, Carden, Dale, Dunkley, Goldberg, Levine, Mansker, Martin-I-Pardo, Murdock, Parker, Register, Schneider, K. Smith, Swimelar, Wallace, and Wilson. They represent over 10% of the undergraduate College faculty. Only one is an alumnus of the College Arts and Sciences, and the remaining seventeen are outsiders to the Sewanee and are unnatural to the ethos of Sewanee Mountain.

[mrs tiggywinkle]

Do you merely post threads on FR? Or, do you engage in dialogue about the threads you post?

[gondramB]

Well, let's hope the author isn't alumnus - the writing is awful. I understand the concern but the writing is a poor reflection on the case for the school.

[T'wit]

I just reviewed the academic credentials of all eighteen of these exotic creatures and did not find one who could earn a living on the market. Anyone who sends a dime to Sewanee, much less a child, is horribly mistaken.

[gondramB]

>>I just reviewed the academic credentials of all eighteen of these exotic creatures and did not find one who could earn a living on the market. Anyone who sends a dime to Sewanee, much less a child, is horribly mistaken.<<

I think of Sewanee as for relatively well to do but stupid or lazy kids -so your assesment of the faculty does not surprise me.

[T'wit]

Use the link up there and have a peek for yourself. I didn't know one thing about the university, but if these are the kind of teachers it hires, I can't imagine who'd willingly attend.

[SimmerSaint]

Here is Sewanee’s MS. TAM PARKER, one of the infamous Gang of 18, in her finest academic glory. A normal person cannot understand what the #%&@# she is talking about. What utter nonsense and rotten piffle. If she is who is teaching our children in the Sewanee classroom, then our bloodlines are doomed. The enemy sits on the Throne, howling with glee!!! Who pays these people?

http://www.aarweb.org/Annualmeet/2002/pbook/abstract.asp?ANum=A234

Survival of the Closest: Gender and Agency in Holocaust Resistance

Tam Parker, University of the South

This paper examines the rhetorical construction and representation of women’s agency in Holocaust victim resistance. I focus upon Charlotte Delbo’s Auschwitz and After which describes the performance of surrogate familial relations between women prisoners. In Delbo’s memoir, we hear a recounting of death and survival in which individual volition and will power are displaced by interpersonal aid and the failure of aid as its moral axis. The maintenance and disruption of camp-familial relation suggests an axiological schema wherein solidarity and care are the foundations upon which individual will falters or abides. This analysis seeks to redress trends within victim morality scholarship that emphasize the capacity of choice as the defining variable between muselmanner and survivor. The final section of this paper will address the ways in which in my usage and perhaps in Delbo’s text itself, the rhetoric of mutuality serves to console the reader where no consolation is possible.

[Larry Lucido]

Apparently it doesn't have a mind of its own - it just copies and pastes.

[T'wit]

>> the rhetoric of mutuality serves to console the reader where no consolation is possible.

At this point the congregation is to rise and sing the first three verses of Hymn 311, John Lennon's "Imagine."

[gondramB]

>>>> the rhetoric of mutuality serves to console the reader where no consolation is possible.<<

Yopu may not like the idea tha people can form family-like relationships but this does sound like an interesting approach - by looking at whether it aids suvivability. I don't find it less worthy than most liberal arts stuff - I'm into hard science so its not something I would spend my academic life on but it doesn't seem bad by liberal arts standards.

[T'wit]

She lost me where she offered consolation to those for whom no consolation is possible.

[gondramB]

>>She lost me where she offered consolation to those for whom no consolation is possible.<<

I thought she meant that in a concentration camp there is no consplation but the women banded together into family units and gave each other what consolation they could... I'll take another look at it.

[T'wit]

>> I'll take another look at it.

Careful. You'd better take protective talismans and wear a string of garlic around your neck.

[GeorgiaGuy]

"I think of Sewanee as for relatively well to do but stupid or lazy kids -so your assesment of the faculty does not surprise me."

Now. Now. As a graduate of the University of the South I can but lament its leftward (and in this case looney) drift. However, its academic standards are some of the highest in the nation. So it is not a place for stupid or lazy kids --- except perhaps in my case.

[gondramB]

>>
Now. Now. As a graduate of the University of the South I can but lament its leftward (and in this case looney) drift. However, its academic standards are some of the highest in the nation. So it is not a place for stupid or lazy kids --- except perhaps in my case.<<

Maybe that was unfair. As a high school department head I helped kids get into college. I should not have said stupid - I should have said low SATs but good workers. And I should not have said high SATs but not a very hard worker.

Meaning if they had low SATs and nothing to compensate they could not get in and if they had high SATs and were very hard workers they usually went elsewhere being more interested in Harvard or MIT than the University of the South.

This no doubt reflects my personal bias and the nature of the school I taught at (private with tuition >$20,000 a year). I apologize if my initial statement sounded unfair - in retrospect it was unfair.

[GeorgiaGuy]

"I apologize if my initial statement sounded unfair - in retrospect it was unfair."

No apology is necessary. I, too, have a bias as a graduate of the University of the South. I have been out of college longer than I care to think. My understanding is that the academic standards of Sewanee are much higher today than they were in my day. But again, that information could be biased, too.

Cheers!

[girlangler]

Did you know a professor there, last name Smith?

I used to buy fishing articles from him. He is a big fly fisherman.

Fished the Elk River tailwaters a lot. I bought his articles in the early 1990s.