How about this?
Posted on 05/28/2019 6:37:05 PM PDT by marshmallow
Thomas Aquinas College welcomes statue with open arms
A little over two years ago, Pepperdine University made the decision to take down a statue of Christopher Columbus after student outcry, with its president at the time calling the monument a “painful reminder” of the past.
The private, Malibu-based university said it would relocate the statue to its campus in Florence, Italy.
But somewhat quietly last fall, Pepperdine officials gave the statue to its Catholic neighbor up the road. The 25-year-old monument now calls Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, California, home. The Catholic campus is about 50 miles north of Pepperdine, roughly a 90-minute drive.
In response to repeated inquiries over the last week regarding the statue’s status, the Pepperdine public relations department finally responded to The College Fix late Wednesday.
“Last year Pepperdine announced a plan to relocate a statue of Christopher Columbus from the Malibu campus to the University’s campus in Florence, Italy. As preparations were being made for the relocation, Pepperdine was presented with an opportunity for the statue to be donated to Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, California,” according to the statement.
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Losers, all.
Bravo, TAC!
Painful, painful memories. I can barely abide the traumatic memories.
Not that college that took it.
As for the ...president at the time calling the monument a “painful reminder” of the past...
This American with Italian blood is telling him to go @#$@# himself.
I’d love to tell him in person.
I wonder what Victor Davis Hanson will say about this.
Where are the Martin Luther King statues going to be packed off to?
Good for TAC! It’s always great to see what is likely ~98% of their student body at the anti-abortion march in San Francisco. So many young, clean-cut, wholesome college kids. Great young Americans. I understand that they’re expanding to a Massachusetts campus too. TAC and similar schools are truly the future of Catholic college education in this country as most of the campuses run by the Jesuits slide into secularism, mediocrity and, eventually, irrelevance.
Domus Sanctae Marthae.
What next? Return the Spanish language back to Spain? Good grief.
The funny thing is you will never hear an *actual* Latin American say something like “We need to rename Colombia.” Notice how there has not been a single campaign to do so? It’s just U.S. thing.
If PC twits outcries to me about a painful reminder I would put a second painful reminder to the just to spite their sorry asses.
Screw the PC hoards nine ways to Sunday ... actually, no, the pervert loving scum might be encouraged.
Son you find examples of cowardice wherever you look.
Maybe it is time that these pansies experience what a real “painful reminder” is, not something that they conjure up in their mind. A big dose of reality.
Isn’t Pepperdine supposed to be relatively conservative?
I always liked Pepperdine a lot. But encountered some super bad racist discrimination there, at the very top too. That was years ago however But Getting rid of Columbus statue doesn’t seem like much has improved, tho)
It is a VERY liberal institution and has been that way for many years.
>> a “painful reminder” of the past.
The horror!
Handy tip when it comes time to send your alma mater some bucks: Forget the slick BS they send you. Go there. Check out the student bulletin boards. Talk to a few students. A professor or two. Find the “_______ Studies” department; check out their course offerings. Both the wife’s and my undergrad schools got dumped, along with our grad school. We visited Hillsdale - that’s all it took for us to fund a pair of scholarships there. If nothing else, fund a STEM school or trade school scholarship.
My wife cleaned houses and scrubbed toilets for four years. An extra $100 a semester would have put her in hog heaven.
Remove it from the National Mall ASAP. The vandals will attack sooner or later.
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