This is definitely the news on everyone's mind today. I'm sure everybody and everything has heard all about it and expressed their respective viewpoints on it. I guess I'll just jump on the bandwagon and add in my two cents:
I just put it out there right now - I support Gene Nicol, I know not every student does, but let's take Gene Nicol the person and president aside for a moment. Whether you agree or disagree with what the BOV did, I don't think anybody can deny that the WAY they went about doing it was WRONG from taking the vote in a closed-door meeting without any recordings to allegedly bribing Nicol to not paint the "firing" from a certain angle to allowing a few select alumni and House delegates have more influence than the students and faculty. That, that is what's really wrong and that is what the fight really boils down to - who REALLY controls William and Mary?
And the answer should be easy - why the students and faculty who are here on this campus day-to-day and are actually affected by what happens in this school. But in the real world, money and influence is what talks and so it is the alumni and it is a few select persons who wield them that have real power in this school - a sad conclusion for the school that once educated the men who would go on to establish democracy in America.
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