{"id":4849,"date":"2018-01-20T13:02:16","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T13:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/01\/20\/catholic-higher-education-is-a-joke\/"},"modified":"2018-01-20T13:02:16","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T13:02:16","slug":"catholic-higher-education-is-a-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/01\/20\/catholic-higher-education-is-a-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Higher Education is a Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/news\/local_coverage\/2017\/11\/holy_cross_may_shed_crusader_moniker\">Here<\/a> is yet another example:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">The College of the Holy Cross [Worcester, Mass.] is mulling whether to shed its century-old sports symbol the \u201cCrusader\u201d out of concerns the image of a Christian warrior might be offensive to Muslims.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Why not go all the way and remove the crucifixes as well? More proof that there is no more supine a chickenshit than a university administrator.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">What can you do? Verbal protest won&#39;t get you anywhere. And you can&#39;t reason with the Pee Cee. You have to defund them. That will get their attention. When they call you for a contribution, tell them why you will not give them a red cent. And don&#39;t send your kids there. You are wasting your money and contributing to their trashing of Western and Catholic culture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">But don&#39;t vent your righteous anger at the poor student or worker who is on the phone.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">For a good long discussion, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/dreher\/catholic-institutions-we-cannot-save-them\/\">&#39;We Cannot Save Them&#39;<\/a> over at Dreher&#39;s place.&#0160; Read it!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Another academic &#39;Catholic&#39; craphole is DePaul &#39;University.&#39;&#0160;See <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2016\/10\/depaul-university-bans-unborn-lives-matter.html\">DePaul University Bans &quot;Unborn Lives Matter&quot;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Ditto Gonzaga: See <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2017\/01\/defunding-the-left.html\">Defunding the Left<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is yet another example: The College of the Holy Cross [Worcester, Mass.] is mulling whether to shed its century-old sports symbol the \u201cCrusader\u201d out of concerns the image of a Christian warrior might be offensive to Muslims. Why not go all the way and remove the crucifixes as well? More proof that there is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/01\/20\/catholic-higher-education-is-a-joke\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Catholic Higher Education is a Joke&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,62,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-catholic-corner","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}