Sic Semper Christiannis

My alma mater, William & Mary is at the center of another one of those mind-bloggling controversies over symbols and feelings. Powerline is on top of it here. If you are just joining us, President Nichol's actions are hardly surprising for a modern day university president, but W&M alums can be forgiven for being taken by surprise at this action. If you have been paying attention, one of Nichol's first tasks as newly installed President was to react to the NCAA's politically correct campaign against logos and mascots using Indian (oops, Native American) names and iconography. Nichol's initial reaction was to tell the NCAA to a) stuff it, and b) ask them who the hell they think they are. Read about it here. In the end though, W&M did yield and make a concession to the NCAA by removing the feathers from its logo (check out the symbol of hate here) because Nichol felt that fighting the NCAA wasn't worth the hassle. All told, if it didn't signal an outright revulsion of political correctness, Nichol's actions did signal at least a willingness to defend an institution's traditions over arbitrary, bureaucratic dictats. Alas it was all a head fake, and the requirement to make devotional offerings to the new god of the modern American university, diversity, applies to the College of Knowledge just the same as everywhere else in academia. More proof that the only acceptable group to target for discrimination, disdain, and opprobrium these days are Christians.