State Rep. Bill Dunn, R-Knoxville, and other lawmakers sent the Board of Trust a letter with legislation attached, threatening to block the policy because Vanderbilt receives state funds.
Wednesday morning, Vanderbilt students from 11 Christian organizations began handing out 4,000 MP4 players loaded with a seven-minute video outlining their objections. The video, also on YouTube, features alumnus Tom Singleton, a retired health-care executive, who said later he won’t so much as renew his football season tickets until the school backs off.
The university’s provost said Vanderbilt stands by the policy.
FIRE (the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) has been all over Vanderbilt’s case of late, and I think for good reason.
FYI, it is not clear from either Kendall’s headline or the linked headline at the Tennessean that the “Anti-Bias Policy” mentioned is not that ‘anyone can study at Vanderbilt’, but that ‘anyone can be eligible to lead any on-campus student organization’– a complete totalitarian gutting of the freedom of association.
Wait unti a straight person wants to join a gay organization, a white wants to join the African American students association or a Jew wants to join an Islamic group and you will find out very quickly what this policy is really about.
#3, Yep. Absolutely. I still find it shocking that the Vanderbilt administration could be so fundamentally wrong. It makes no sense.
Just further proof that straight A’s and fancy degrees do not mean that one is intelligent.