>>NBC, ABC and a bunch of others have only the initial story, verbatim.
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>>So... theocracy fights back. I specially dislike the pressure from Richmond. Don't these guys have nothing better to do but to insist on christianizing a state university? What the know do they think they're doing?
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>I hadn't heard about this at all yet. Nichol sounds like quite a guy. Nice to see that the comments on the rector's letter so far all support Nichol, if they take a position.

As expected, nobody heard of this, because the alleged controversy is resolved in a way that pleases the conservative right. If anyone else is displeased, it will remain a local matter, nothing to see here. Of course, the smear campaign, one among the many, was much louder:

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59964 "Sex show returns to college that banished cross" (the cross wasn't banished, it was just not on permanent display in the common chapel, but could be put there on anyone's request - doesn't matter, the stronger the wording, the better)
Of course, the orchestration was strong back then: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/12/27/cross, and even a website by the alumni called http://www.savethewrencross.org/bov.php - as if the cross was in some danger. And note that the page is "bov.php" - the same "weak-kneed Board of Visitors" that decided to sack Nichol.

So jamahirya isn't playing fair - what's new?