He looks like a Chris Farley character.
Posted on 03/07/2007 5:41:02 AM PST by pabianice
Administrators at the College of William & Mary, responding to months of harsh criticism from alumni, ordered the immediate return of a cross to the Williamsburg school's historic Wren Chapel yesterday.
Alumni angered by the removal of the cross in October threatened to withhold millions of dollars of donations -- including a $12 million gift.
College President Gene R. Nichol announced the decision at a press conference yesterday afternoon with the co-chairmen of a special presidential committee charged with studying the role of religion at public universities.
"This has been a challenging task for the committee, but it has produced a compromise that allows for permanent display of the cross in the chapel, while remaining welcoming to all," Mr. Nichol said. "I fully embrace it."
The 14-member committee, co-chaired by religion professor James Livingston and law professor Alan Meese, issued its unanimous recommendation earlier than its deadline of the Board of Visitors meeting next month...
(Excerpt) Read more at insider.washingtontimes.com ...
Money talks. Colleges expect support from their alumni, but in this case it was the only way we had to fight back against this absurd move. I'd have preferred they had done the right thing and put the cross back without the threat of withholding support, but it was clear that they would not be moved short of the prospect of monetary penalty.
This compromise is just another "god-aphobe" reaction. The students that don't like the cross should be taught tolerance. If they don't want to come to a university with a history of christianity then they should go somewhere else.
If only our Leaders were so smart.
Aaaaah.... How nice. Tell us jerk... when's the last time the cross was symbolic of NOT welcoming all?
Mr. Nichols needs to be replaced.
jmho
Why would anyone agree to give any money to an organization that employs the people who precipitated this? Don't give them any money until they get rid of the anti religious zealots.
Apparently Mr. Nichol has a history of "god-aphobia", he pulled a similar stunt at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Just another lib scumbag Administrator/Attorney.
http://www.answers.com/topic/gene-r-nichol
What a meathead! Look at the size of that head.
What other possible reaction could the college officials who ordered the cross to be removed expect?
Talk about tone deaf.
Mr. Nichol is a coward.
BTW, why would a non-Christian go into the chapel anyway?
He makes it sound as though Christ doesn't welcome everyone. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
The compromise is to put the cross in a glass case - like a museum.
Christianity under glass.
He looks like a Chris Farley character.
I just read this....on Mr. Nichols...
Two ACLU Leaders Causing Harm in Virginia
J. Michael Sharman
In an ironic but very appropriate linkage, a Google search on the name “Charles Rust-Tierney” first yields the headline: “Former ACLU Chapter President Arrested for Child Pornography,” and then the very next item is headlined, “Statement of ACLU on Loudoun Filtering Policy: Statement read by Charles Rust-Tierney.”[1]
In that public statement made back in 1998, Charles Rust-Tierney, as the President of the ACLU of Virginia, urged the Loudoun County Library Board not to put any filters on the library’s internet portals. He said, “Recognizing that individuals will continue to behave responsibly and appropriately while in the library, the default should be maximum, unrestricted access to the valuable resources of the Internet.”[2]
The FBI recently arrested Rust-Tierney for multiple counts of child pornography, which he acquired over the internet.[3]
The 51 year-old Arlington County lawyer[4] and youth sports coach[5], was named in a criminal complaint filed by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Alexandria and was taken into custody on February 23, 2007 by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and Arlington County police.[6]
The web site for Virginia’s ACLU chapter indicates Charles Rust-Tierney served as its president as recently as 2005 [7], and is still a board member.[8]
The D.C. Bar’s listing for Charles M. Rust-Tierney says he is a lawyer with the Public Defender Service in Washington, D.C. and his office is located in St. Elizabeth’s Hospital.[9]
Since 1991, Diann Rust-Tierney, Charles Rust-Tierney's wife, has been the ACLU’s lead strategist and spokeswoman on the death penalty as the director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Capital Punishment Project.[10] In 2004, she became the executive director of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.[11]
Maybe she’ll re-think her opposition to the death penalty after seeing and hearing the cries of pre-teen girls being bound with rope and raped on her husband’s videos.[12]
A little further down the Virginia coastline, in Williamsburg, another ACLU leader is also exerting a destructive influence, this time on the nation’s second oldest college.
When the College of William & Mary paid thousands of dollars to host the “Sex Workers Art Show” featuring topless women, bare bottoms, erotic dances, and 200-pound stripteasers using sex toys, College President Gene R. Nichol said, “[I]t's not the practice and province of universities to censor or cancel performances because they are controversial."[13]
One might be led to believe that President Nichol is a just a go-along-get-along, laissez faire sort of guy were it not for the fact that a few months earlier, in late October 2006, Nichol ordered a brass cross removed from the Wren Chapel (in the oldest academic building in continuous use in the United States) because, he said, the “chapel, like our entire campus, must be welcoming to all.”[14]
So how can a supposedly intelligent college president reconcile censoring a historic cross out of a chapel because it might possibly offend a few people, while paying for live sex acts that are certainly offensive to many of the college’s students, faculty and alumni?
The answer is revealed by the items listed in Nichol’s official resume on the College’s website which showed he had been: President, North Florida ACLU, 1984; Chair, University of Colorado Task Force on Gay and Lesbian Issues, 1992-93; Colorado Democrat of the Year, 1999; Member, Board of Directors, North Carolina Civil Liberties Union (2002- ); Colorado ACLU (1999- 2000); Keynote Address Speaker, North Carolina - American Civil Liberties Union annual banquet, North Carolina, October, 2004.[15]
A donor has withdrawn a pledged $12 million gift to William & Mary because of Gene Nichol’s ACLU-style logic[16], and so one can expect that he will soon be out of a job. But he shouldn’t have to look too far for a new one.
Since the FBI’s report says Charles Rust-Tierney confessed to possessing the child pornography, and he will thus be disbarred sooner or later, there’s going to be a vacancy in the Public Defender’s Service office at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. Maybe Gene Nichol can submit his resume to them.
Distributed by www.ChristianWorldviewNetwork.com
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Immediately????? It took MONTHS to return the cross.
So what was the compromise?
Now, while they're on a roll, they should fire that ass of a President.
Do not give money to this institution they have not changed. They revealed themselves for who they are..
"Regime Change" must come first.. Dump the Dean and all the Other Sacks get some decent folk in then support the school.
W
It probably went something like ... "We were only joking. We'll put it back, if you keep sending us the money." LOL
Nothing is solved unless the Alumni can have the enablers of this politically correct, liberal travesty terminated from employment.
Great!
Now, fire the President.
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