Posted on 09/08/2006 5:06:27 PM PDT by sionnsar
"I am a feminist. I pledge to use the power of my education to actualize my feminist ideals. I will live my life aware of the restrictions traditionally placed on male and female behavior and work to reduce their power over myself and others. I will respect women as decision-makers. I will make my political and consumer choices with awareness of their implications for women around the world. I will recognize that oppressions intersect, that the interplay of race, class, gender, sexual orientation and nationality create multiple vulnerabilities for women." Apparently no pledge to submit to the Lordship of Jesus, his authority, even over their feminism. http://www.sewanee.edu/womensstudies/Events
As one alumnus wrote VOL: Here's what happens to sweet Southern girls when their parents pay $36,000/yr to send them to "the Episcopal University:"
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"I am a racist. I pledge to use the power of my education to actualize my white power ideals. I will live my life aware of the restrictions traditionally placed on white and black behavior and work to reduce their power over myself and others. I will respect whites as decision-makers. I will make my political and consumer choices with awareness of their implications for whites around the world. I will recognize that oppressions intersect, that the interplay of race, class, gender, sexual orientation and nationality create multiple vulnerabilities for whites."
Wheeeeeew, I was afraid that this was happening at a Christian university...
"I am an American. I pledge to use the power of my common sense to actualize my American ideals. I will live my life aware of the restrictions traditionally placed on American behavior and work to reduce their power over myself and others. I will respect common sense Americans as decision-makers. I will make my political and consumer choices with awareness of their implications for Americans around the world. I will recognize that oppressions of moral ideals, freedom, and nationality create multiple vulnerabilities for Americans." .... if only more people would speak out THIS way, instead of trying to further a secular agenda of pseudo-victimhood......
Well, this is why Sewanee wasn't even on our long list for my daughter's college, let alone the short list.
Then you better get prepared to spend a lot of money on clothes. Since most are put together by women in third world sweatshops. But, I guess if you are aware of it, that makes it ok.
Sionnsar - nothing personal, but I've gotten to where I wince everytime I get a ping from you. Everytime I see the latest bit of anti-theological nonsense I cringe. It's not you - it's the news.
It's not taken personally. The number of times over the past two years I personally have just wanted to walk away from it all are uncountable, and when the day comes that there is nobody on the list still under Griswold/Schori/&Co, this list will go away (unless somebody else wants it -- and that offer stands at any time, because I am looking at a change in my job that will make regular service of this list really difficult; the effects are already noticeable, I think).
If it becomes too much, consider withdrawing from the list. I won't take it personally.
A question: not everything out there is bad, though it might not be newsworthy. What about including items such as this?
You have been providing a great service. Although I rarely post to the pings these days (I have little to add to the discussion that I haven't already said), I read almost all of the posts. So just because many of them are not drawing expansive discussions, do not feel that they are being ignored. I am sure many of the regulars are at the same place on this that I am.
It's such a beautiful place. Maybe they'll eventually sell it to someone who wants to run a Christian university.
How is your daughter liking Davidson so far?
hahaha, "I am a racist." hahaha.
I don't. When you post a thread you get a view count in the ping list.
We don't hear from her as often as we would like (ha!) but we know she gets along swimmingly with her roommate, a very nice Latina girl from El Paso. The girls on her hall are also nice, she says it's a "laid back hall". There are other Japanese anime' and RPG fans on the hall, so she's pleased about that. The food is good, she's found a job working as a techie in the college theater (something she did all through high school), she's taking karate for phys ed (she's really an aikidoka but that's not offered). She likes her biology prof (he's "a dear") but bio is really really hard, her Spanish prof is something of a wild man but very funny, and I haven't heard about the other courses yet. She and her roomie found a local church to attend Mass, she says it's very nice and the music is good, her only complaint is that the priest officiates v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y and Mass takes an hour and a half . . . she's used to Monsignor who practically has a stopwatch in his hand, if Mass goes over an hour heads will roll!
So, all in all, I'd say things are good in Davidson. (Makes me want to go back to school, except I was never good at Biology and I can't speak a word of Spanish.)
Sounds terrific! Anoreth got a brochure for prospective students from Franciscan University yesterday, and I'm wondering if I could lie about my age, claim Vlad is my little brother ("We're orphans ... sob!") and spend the next four years at Steubenville!
I told her to cut some pictures out of the brochure and tape them on her wall for motivation: "When you think you might sit around and draw for a while, look at the pictures and think, 'I could be doing an SAT practice test!' "
I could also suggest that she take the test multiple times, IF she prepares for it extra thoroughly the second time. If she needs to boost a particular score to get into the school she wants, a tutor who specializes in preparing for the SAT is worth looking into.
My daughter thought her math score was a little low to ensure getting into Davidson (740) so we sent her to a tutor for 3-4 sessions . . . much to everyone's surprise she made an 800 the second time. She took the tutor a bouquet of flowers and a nice note!
Wah-hoo-wah! My brother and I have the "good with tests" gene, but Anoreth didn't inherit it. She's going to have to put a major effort into test prep, if she wants to get scholarships.
Steubenville's average SAT is in the 1100's, so it's not a big hurdle, but to get financial aid she'll need major SAT scores and lots of community activities!
And for Oklahoma's meteorology programs as an out-of-state student, she'll need stellar ACT scores, and I don' know nothin' about ACTs. But we have a computer program for it!
There are gimmicks and shortcuts and patterns -- just like in any other business. My daughter said the most important thing she learned from the tutor was shortcuts that gave her extra time to think about the problems.
If you can find a test preparation book or sample tests that talk about shortcuts and "thinking about the problem the way the SAT preparers thought about it", that would be worth its weight in gold.
Jo is not a natural test-taker, but her high school concentrates heavily on preparing them for SATs and APs. When they go in to take it in the fall of their junior year, it's not exactly old hat but it's not screamingly new either. The school's been doing this for years, they did it when I was there back in the Late Pleistocene. I must have taken the darned things a dozen times. . . .
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