Gene Nichol, president of William and Mary, has managed to move his school to the top of the heap for the Campus Outrage Awards, handed out by the Collegiate Network. It’s a banner day when you beat out Berkeley for the No. 1 spot on this annual list.

Read the link about SFSU, then read this. I have yet to hear it said more clearly.

http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009890

Personally, I think the incident at SFSU should take the #1 spot. Nichols made a foolish assumption and yes, that does call into question his grasp of reality and qualifications (if a military officer had made such an error, he would be retired right now)but this was the stupid act of one disconnected, arrogant man.

The SFSU incident, along with the Duke rape case and the firing of Larry Summers ect…, is a symptom of ideological rot eating away at the foundational legitimacy of Americas university system. Perhaps, one day, these people will finally realize that their lives have been a waste…that they are an enemy to all the principles and ideals they pretend to protect. That they are no better, or even worse, than the those they replaced.

Well to answer your question Patrick…I’ve often thought it was ok, for example, to have the Ten Commandments posted inside courtrooms. As far as I’m concerned, those are great words to live by—for everyone.

But for someone to get the full benefit of those, they’d have to be at the courtroom to read ‘em. And by that time its a little too late.

My only point is not in defending William ‘n’ Mary, but if something doesn’t produce results we can see then I have no use in it being around period. (Like a no-smoking law for restaurants).

Hey Larry! Why defend W&M? It has never been an avant garde school or leader of students. As a State school it is quite a disappointment, hardly serves the Commonwealth. The Law School almost folded in the 70s and taxpayer monies bailed it out—like we need another law school.

B.T.W. This cutsie-pie “Campus Outrage Awards” production is no more an authority than is “Rate-My-Professors.com” — where failing students play sour-grapes with the professors who challenged them.

So its not really a “banner day” for anything.

This cross is only a historical object with no bearing on the future education of incoming students. In other words, if someone from Nebraska enters William & Mary in 2009 and the cross had been long removed, then the new student would have never known it was there to begin with!

So that new student can just do what we all chide students for NOT doing: Focus on learning. (Or beer chugging maybe).

That cross will not affect, either way, how that new student decides. Its essentially an inert object.

Agree with the award-it should go to W&M for the several school-sponsored events. So much for the vaunted excellence of Virginia colleges.

I wonder if they would have cancelled/censored a visit by Clarence Thomas? Maybe a stripper is OK, but not a conservative.

So much for principle, the cross was put back due to influence from a wealthy donor threatening to withdraw a pledge of millions. Otherwise it would have been permanently removed so as not to offend terrorists.

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