Furman, Trump resistance and Process

  I  was present Saturday in Pendleton SC for the anti Trump rallies. I got on camera with the Anderson Observer report and you can see me in the video there. Erin Goss an English Proff at Celemson fan of Cormac McCarthy and Ron Rash was a coordinator for the ralley and she and I had nice conversation. The Oberver said the crowd was about 350 but I think it more more like 750 or more.

   I had twosigns. One said Get Timmons family name of Furman Arena and the other asked why are Nikki Haley and the Clemson trustees struck mute in the face of all of Trump's shenanigans.

     I hope Furman Paladin newspaper will take a look at some faculty acting like Trump. In January I was threatened with criminal trespass for talking at a faculty meeting Jan 15. It It is a ridiculous overreaction to my reservations about some aspects of the Placing Furman initiative. I am am convinced one powerful facllty faculty member got his panties in a wad. The Man who convenend the meeting told me after He was kind of glad I was there, I identified myself before I spoke. It was turned over to John Milby head of security. Nice guy but thick headed and caught up in a ridiculous process beneath Furman and all its advertised virtue and free speech history.

   I am enthusastic about a scholarship initiative in Alabama that could in a few short years deliver a quarter million dollars to Furman in matching funds. I already have two scholars from the small town of Collinsville Alabama. One has verbal scores through the roof I hope to introduce to Tomiko Brown Nagin and the other, Hispanic, with high math scores. I have mentioned her to Dr Harris in the Math Department. My Father and his Father were good friends.

     Not to toot my own horn but I dont see how a fellow like me is a candidate for criminal trespass. There are a good twenty classmates, faculty and staff who think this is ridiculous, and former Chaplain Jim Pitts a few years ago said if Furman had an Order of the Palmetto he would nominate me

   Mr. Milby, President Davis and some of the trustees should read my review of Karen Guth's Tainted Legacies. easy for google for recent issue of Christian Ethics Today. I quote Pitts at some length in that piece.

    A former assistant to Samford President Tom Corts wrote President Davis an appeal on my behalf which she dismissed and turned back to Milby who is not a jury of my peers.

    This is my 50th homecoming year. I hope to get this to the attention of the student newspaper cause I think they can do some investigation worthy of Marshall Frady  early in the upcoming year.

     Furman and Trump in concert. I Never imagined.