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Bizarre role reversal: Conservative students pressure university to cancel speech by famed historian over 'Biblical principles'
By Ray Hartmann
Published October 31, 2021
Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Jon Meachem has been disinvited from headlining a major event at Samford University after vocal students complained at the last minute that he didn't live up the school's religious standards.
Samford's Student Government Association voted for a resolution October 26 demanding that the university cancel Meachem's featured speech at its presidential inauguration ceremony. The next day, President Beck A. Taylor -- who's being inaugurated -- made the awkward announcement that Meachem's talk had been pulled just eight days before the event.
Based on reporting at Baptist News Global, Taylor didn't seem all that enthusiastic about the cancellation.
"President Taylor wrote to the university community Oct. 27 that due to objections, including from 'elements of Samford's Student Government Association (SGA),' Meacham will be rescheduled for a later date, "at a more appropriate time to an event not so closely connected to the symbolism of the inauguration.'"
More at
https://www.rawstory.com/jon-meacham-2655461975/
maxsolomon
(33,310 posts)"Conservative" is not equivalent to Religious, but whatever.
Meachem probably wasn't going to challenge their bullshit core beliefs, which is always their main fear.
tenderfoot
(8,426 posts)róisín_dubh
(11,791 posts)I had a campus visit. It was pretty awful. Standard procedure is to notify candidates brought to campus that they didn't get the job.
It's been 9 years. I still haven't gotten notification.
Initech
(100,063 posts)I just thank the highest of high gods that the adults are back in charge now!