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"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,...

SEWANEE, TN: 18 Faculty Demand Changes to University of South Purpose Statement More Justice, Less Christ By David W. Virtue www.virtueonline.org SEWANEE, TN: (5/16/2006)--Eighteen liberal faculty at the University of the South, the Episcopal Church's only owned university, are proposing major changes to the university's purpose statement that would effectively destroy its Christian mission and Episcopal distinctiveness. The changes do not affect the School of Theology of the university directly, only the liberal arts college. Proposed by the 18 faculty is dropping the words "...and enlightened by Christian faith in the Anglican tradition" from the present Purpose Statement. They added...

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...

SEWANEE, TN: 18 Faculty Demand Changes to University of South Purpose Statement More Justice, Less Christ By David W. Virtue www.virtueonline.org SEWANEE, TN: (5/16/2006)--Eighteen liberal faculty at the University of the South, the Episcopal Church's only owned university, are proposing major changes to the university's purpose statement that would effectively destroy its Christian mission and Episcopal distinctiveness.

I regret to inform you of the progress made in the Repair the Mace project. None has been made at all. Consequently, alumni dismay has grown into an infectious disgust with the way things are handled (mishandled!) on the Mountain. The mistreatment there in Sewanee of Louise Claiborne-Armstrong’s beautiful ceremonial gift must cease with all immediate urgency. In a story that began on the front page of the first section of the New York Times, we see that The University of the South's famed processional Mace appeared in the middle of page A28 on November 30, 2005, and also in...

Rumor has it that the faculty of the University of the South want to take the motivation of serving God out of the undergraduate program, and no longer wish to be dedicated to enlightment by Christianity in the Anglican tradition. If the faculty actually pass this, it will be time to either fire the faculty and hire Christian professors, or just shut the whole thing down. It is very sad.Here is the current mission statement, as passed by the Trustees:UNIVERSITY PURPOSE The University of the South is an institution of the Episcopal Church dedicated to the increase of knowledge, understanding,...

The University of the S**th by Gail Jarvis Political correctness has gained such a strong hold on the minds of college administrators that many rush head-over-heels into unwise decisions, often acting as though possessed by mass hysteria. Let me present an example to illustrate how utterly bizarre their behavior has become. The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, is a unique little liberal arts college, founded in 1858 by the Episcopal dioceses of ten Southern states. In 1941, alumnus and poet William Alexander Percy, uncle of novelist Walker Percy, wrote this about the University in his autobiography, Lanterns on...

SEWANEE - "Sewanee" and "The University of the South" are used sometimes separately to describe the highly ranked liberal arts institution atop Sewanee Mountain, but how those words will be used in the future has led to opposition. The university's Board of Regents has endorsed a plan to label the 147-old institution as "Sewanee: The University of the South." Early versions of the 60-page marketing plan refer to the South's negative image and "troubled history of race relations," but those who have called for the name change say they merely want consistency to continue attracting a strong student body.Joe Romano,...