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Vanderbilt U. Loses 'Confederate' Bid (Forces of P.C. Actually LOSE One, For Once...!)
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| 5/04/05
| AP/Colin Fly
Posted on 05/05/2005 2:11:46 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
It's not racial, it's historical. period.
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posted on
05/05/2005 2:18:14 AM PDT
by
zip
(Remember: DimocRat lies told often enough became truth to 48% of Americans (NRA))
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
What a load of BS. Yeah, lets just rewrite history to become more 'welcoming'. Idiocy.
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posted on
05/05/2005 2:18:25 AM PDT
by
SoDak
(Hoist that rag!)
To: zip
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).
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posted on
05/05/2005 2:24:01 AM PDT
by
NavVet
(“Benedict Arnold was wounded in battle fighting for America, but no one remembers him for that.”)
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To: NavVet
I bet the original articles of confederation are renamed the articles of cooperation in high school history books 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.
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posted on
05/05/2005 2:31:39 AM PDT
by
zip
(Remember: DimocRat lies told often enough became truth to 48% of Americans (NRA))
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
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.
That sounds fair to me. Maybe the anti-Southern gangs could raise the $705,474.45?
Vanderbilt Chancellor Gordon Gee cited the need to create a welcoming environment and diversity efforts when he announced in 2002 the school's intention to drop the word.
Obviously diversity doesnt include people with a respect for history.
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posted on
05/05/2005 2:40:55 AM PDT
by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
"Vanderbilt University would violate a decades-old contract if it stripped the word "Confederate" from the name of a dormitory built with the help of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, a court ruling released Wednesday said."Only decades?
Hell ... ain't no slug lawyer worth his whale$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".
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posted on
05/05/2005 2:57:55 AM PDT
by
knarf
(A place where anyone can learn anything ... especially that which promotes clear thinking.)
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
It was on the front page of the Tennessean this AM, and I love that VU may have to pay the Daughters of The Confederacy $700,000.00 to take the "Confederate" off a building. Their $50,000.00 donation has grown into a nice nest egg, and I'm sure the org. needs funds in order to honor the heritage of the south and the loved ones who died without the bigotry of the northern states today. I guess what goes around really does come around after all.
To: R. Scott
$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.
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posted on
05/05/2005 6:01:15 AM PDT
by
colonel mosby
(Vanderbilt is the Berlin Wall of campus P.C.)
To: colonel mosby
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posted on
05/05/2005 6:18:59 AM PDT
by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
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.
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posted on
05/05/2005 8:12:44 AM PDT
by
chaosagent
(It's all right to be crazy. Just don't let it drive you nuts.)
To: stainlessbanner
To: zip
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.
To: MacDorcha; JohnPigg; smug; TexConfederate1861; peacebaby; DixieOklahoma; kalee; dljordan; ...
Thanks for the ping Constitution Day!
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posted on
05/05/2005 8:39:43 AM PDT
by
stainlessbanner
(If you don't know your history, you can't know where you are going)
To: stainlessbanner
YeeeeeHAAAA!
Chalk one up for the good guys!
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posted on
05/05/2005 8:43:12 AM PDT
by
RebelBanker
(To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women!)
To: stainlessbanner
the GOOD GUYS win yet ANOTHER victory over the PC-idiots of LEFTIST academia, HATERS & DAMNyankee elites.
(insert REBEL YELL here!)
free dixie NOW,sw
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posted on
05/05/2005 8:50:51 AM PDT
by
stand watie
(being a damnyankee is no better than being a racist. it is a LEARNED prejudice against dixie.)
To: wardaddy
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posted on
05/05/2005 8:54:20 AM PDT
by
bourbon
(quasi morientes et ecce vivimus!)
To: R. Scott
$50,000 @ 6% (countinuous compounding) for 70 years is $3,334,268.59
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posted on
05/05/2005 9:00:20 AM PDT
by
4CJ
(Good-bye Henry LeeII. Rest well my FRiend. || Quoting Lincoln OR JimRob is a bannable offense.)
To: chaosagent
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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posted on
05/05/2005 9:00:56 AM PDT
by
wardaddy
( Lucchese Belt Raised)
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