Posted on 02/12/2008 8:57:25 AM PST by 3AngelaD
The head of the College of William and Mary, Gene Nichol, has resigned in disgrace. Several readers send along his resignation letter. You’ll recall that he roiled the campus with his decision to hide the cross at the famous school chapel to make it “less faith-specific.” More recently, he hosted a sex workers show on campus while restricting critics who wanted to tape it. Here’s his letter:....
Dear Members of the William & Mary Community: I was informed by the Rector on Sunday, after our Charter Day celebrations, that my contract will not be renewed in July. Appropriately, serving the College in the wake of such a decision is beyond my imagining. Accordingly, I have advised the Rector, and announce today, effective immediately, my resignation as president of the College of William & Mary. I return to the faculty of the school of law to resume teaching and writing.
I have made four decisions, or sets of decisions, during my tenure that have stirred ample controversy. First, as is widely known, I altered the way a Christian cross was displayed in a public facility, on a public university campus, in a chapel used regularly for secular College events — both voluntary and mandatory — in order to help Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, and other religious minorities feel more meaningfully included as members of our broad community. The decision was likely required by any effective notion of separation of church and state. And it was certainly motivated by the desire to extend the College’s welcome more generously to all. We are charged, as state actors, to respect and accommodate all religions, and to endorse none. The decision did no more...
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After reading that, all I can say is “shut t f up” and get out!
Hmmm... is "I return to the faculty of the school of law to resume teaching and writing" to be translated as 'not serving the College' then?
Geez fella, after a put-down like you just got, maybe you should depart for a different employer. Can't leave that cushion though, can you? What a brave stance you take.
Agreed. Someone had their own agenda in hiring him.
Bingo! I’m a W&M alum. Nichols never seemed to get that the institution was bigger than him - he thought it was all about him. That departure letter is positively Clintonian, dripping with pious self-pity that reveals the utter narcissism of the writer.
Don’t worry, Gene old cud, all the Ivy League schools will be fighting over you.
Much obliged. I would assume that it’s the same show every time they do it but I suppose that’s not necessarily so.
I’m just kidding. I’m sure its the same show (or something equally obnoxious, idiotic and perverse) each time.
Amazing that Duke would support this show after castigating its students for hiring a stripper.
What an exhibitionistic, narcissistic, drooling POS..... he is the Paris Hilton of academe.....
They can’t help it. Duke President Broddhead and Nichols were cut from the same cloth. Each had absolutely no credentials to be an executive or leader. In both cases the only accomplishment they could point to was a slavish commitment to ‘diversity’. Both are absolute cowards who would rather give in to radical leftists faculty than preserve a single spec of the excellence and commitment to truth that made these Universities great institutions. Both men remember what happened to L. Summers at Harvard when he tried to stand up to the Red Guard there. Maybe if the Governors of these schools get some backbone and reassert their intention to value the institutions more than peace with radical faculties they will rise again.
William and Mary Initiates Anonymous "Bias" Tip Line and Investigatory Tribunal
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Posted on 10/26/2007 7:09:48 PM CDT by manapua
Editorial: William & Mary president unfairly left with no alternative (Mega Barf Alert)
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Posted on 02/13/2008 2:38:17 AM CST by Paleo Conservative
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