Comments on: Academia: A Presidential Resignation

By: VirusHead

VirusHead — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 15:20:21 +0000

Thanks for the great comments! I am so grateful to get feedback on these posts.

FerdC – As a Resident Assistant in my dorm, one of my jobs was to host and promote such workshops and seminars. One of the most wonderful and most difficult aspects of the first year of college is that you are thrown in together with peers from all over the country, from different cultural backgrounds.

JR – “Jesusistan wingtards” – You kill me. Have you coined any new words or phrases lately?

Contemplator – I’m doing ok. I miss my friend a lot, and I feel badly that I’m too far away to help out very much with all the work that must be done in Rhode Island. Our friends are pitching in to donate her things, place her animals, and a million other things. I had a moment a couple of days ago when I saw her cellphone number in my own phone. I dialed it, wondering if anyone had thought to turn it off yet (and thinking that maybe I could hear her voice one more time) – and someone answered! I asked “Who is this?” and she said, “No, who is THIS?” What came out of my mouth: “You just answered a dead woman’s phone. It’s up to you to tell me who this is.” Sigh. It turned out to be her housemate, so I, uh, suggested that she stop using the phone and notify the telecom company of Nikki’s passing. I’m also worried that there might be some correlation between her death and the fact that she had recently started the new fibro-myalsia drug. There are several women from my home town, including family members, that suffer from this horrible pain condition, and I am worried in case there is a significant danger associated with the drug. Nikki was pretty young just to drop dead.

Oh – and thanks for the link. The Pew study is very important, and I too will be blogging on it in the near future.

By: contemplator

contemplator — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:01:55 +0000

Heidi,

I hope you are doing OK, especially after the loss of the person you were close to. I’ve thought about you over the past few weeks.

I found this news link I thought you might be interested in. I’m actually blogging about it myself tomorrow: http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080225/us_time/americasunfaithfulfaithf ul

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By: JollyRoger

JollyRoger — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:38:15 +0000

The only way to defeat the Jesusistan wingtards is to expose them at every turn, no matter how difficult the process may be. Gene Nichol is to be commended for his willingness to stand them down. JollyRoger's last blog post..On the 66th Anniversary of My Mother’s Birth

By: FerdC

FerdC — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:46:11 +0000

What a shame, indeed!
It seems unbelievable that such prejudice and intolerance can exist in any of today’s universities. President Nichol evidently made huge progress in bringing his university up to speed, but change is difficult, especially for the privileged.
My children attended the University of Michigan, Xavier University, Arizona State University, and the University of Dayton. In each of these schools, during the first semester of their freshman year, they were required to take a course dealing with diversity and tolerance. The message is that these values are of utmost importance to the cultures of these schools. We live in the American “melting pot” after all.
Hopefully the changes that President Nichol has already made will be enough to eventually transform the elitist culture of William and Mary. His beloved students, the future of our country, will be all the better for it.

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