The Flat Hat
February 26, 2008
From my weekly opinions column. Analyzes the culture war, and the handful of people leading it, that led to the firing of William and Mary President Gene Nichol and that divided the college's governing body, the Board of Visitors. Reports, for the first time, that a prominent Washington Republican and former member of the Board of Visitors, working secretly against Nichol, had asked a William and Mary student to pass off her anti-Nichol essays as his own.
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"After being ignored for too long, we will be heard"
The Flat Hat
February 15, 2008
From my weekly opinions column. Following the firing of College President Gene Nichol, analyzes the political pressures that led to his dismissal, addresses the other states goals of those same conservative operatives (one of whom was instrumental to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth smears of 2004), and discusses what the vastly pro-Nichol student body and faculty can do going forward.
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February 15, 2008
From my weekly opinions column. Following the firing of College President Gene Nichol, analyzes the political pressures that led to his dismissal, addresses the other states goals of those same conservative operatives (one of whom was instrumental to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth smears of 2004), and discusses what the vastly pro-Nichol student body and faculty can do going forward.
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"Censorship, corruption of College bends to outside pressure"
The Flat Hat
February 8, 2008
From my weekly opinions column. Discusses the culture war being waged against William and Mary and how it has resulted in censorship, ideological tests imposed on administrators, and a campus culture so unwelcoming that Annie Oakley, the founder and director of the nationally-acclaimed performance art show on sex workers, called her visit to William and Mary "a more degrading experience than anything in the sex industry."
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February 8, 2008
From my weekly opinions column. Discusses the culture war being waged against William and Mary and how it has resulted in censorship, ideological tests imposed on administrators, and a campus culture so unwelcoming that Annie Oakley, the founder and director of the nationally-acclaimed performance art show on sex workers, called her visit to William and Mary "a more degrading experience than anything in the sex industry."
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