Posted on 05/05/2005 2:11:46 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Vanderbilt University would violate a decades-old contract if it stripped the word "Confederate" from the name of a dormitory built with the help of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, a court ruling released Wednesday said.
The heritage group donated a third of the building's cost. In return, the name Confederate Memorial Hall was chiseled into stone over the main entrance.
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It's not racial, it's historical. period.
What a load of BS. Yeah, lets just rewrite history to become more 'welcoming'. Idiocy.
The PC crowd is so afraid of the "C" word that in 10 years, I bet the original aritcles of confederation are renamed the articles of cooperation in high school history books. (If there are any left then that teach American history).
Although you wrote that "tongue in cheek", you are close to the truth. I really don't know how they will teach it but maybe a "coalition of racists" attempted to secede from the Union or some such tripe. Scary as hell.
The state appeals court said Vanderbilt must leave the name intact or pay the group the current value of the $50,000 given when the building was constructed in 1935. It was not immediately clear what that amount would be in today's dollars.
Vanderbilt Chancellor Gordon Gee cited the need to create a welcoming environment and diversity efforts when he announced in 2002 the school's intention to drop the word.
Only decades?
Hell ... ain't no slug lawyer worth his whale$h!t if he don't see a contract that can be broken.
It's a shame we'd have to do it, but I guess that's a sure-fire way to accomplish anything ... make it part of a contract.
I'll buy the uniforms as long as we call the football team "The Indians".
$700,000 seems low to me. $50,000 invested in a CD, compounded over the last 72 years, would yield a figure in the millions of dollars.
Anyway, Gee's hatchet-man, Michael Schoenfeld, initiated this insanity. He should be fired immediately, and sent back to New York, his true home.
Schoenfeld's cultural purging has alienated most of the old alumni base, and cost Vanderbilt a huge amount of both financial and spiritual support.
A once proud Southern university, whose most famous graduates were the "Fugitive Agrarians"(Robert Penn Warren, Andrew Lytle, Donald Davidson, Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, et al), now finds itself smoldering in the ruins of political correctness.
The Vanderbilt Administration deserves this embarrassment. The vast majority of proud Vanderbilt alumni do not.
On top of all this, Vanderbilt did not even originally own this building.
This was a separate school and a separate campus (across the street).
It was on the campus of Peabody College for Women. Confederate Hall was a women's domitory.
My mother went back to school there to get her Master's in Teaching in 1957 and as a 9 year old boy, I stayed there for 3 months while my father was in South America. Everyone on the floor knew I was there but no one every squealed to the authorities.
Seen this? Woo hoo!
The Articles of Confederation referred to here were the precedent to the current US Constitution prescribing the cooperation of the states in existence at that time.
Other than slavery was legal, just as it was for a long time under the Constitution, there really is no relationship to the states which seceded from the union.
Thanks for the ping Constitution Day!
(insert REBEL YELL here!)
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heh.
$50,000 @ 6% (countinuous compounding) for 70 years is $3,334,268.59
Peabody had a teaching school back in the late 1800s for men as well.
My great grandfather went there in the 1890s to get of all things his Postmaster degree.
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