[Vision2020] A challenge to Donovan

[Donovan Arnold]

--- Nick Gier <ngier at uidaho.edu> wrote:

> Greetings:
> 
> I would like to challenge Donovan to show where I
> disclosed any private 
> information about Wilson's UI performance in my
> post.  There is a judgment 
> implied in my claim that his MA thesis is a pretty
> good piece of 
> scholarship.  That should be taken by anyone as a
> compliment.  Professors 
> say such things about their students all the time
> without breaching 
> confidentiality.
> 
> Here is how my article "The Wilson Story: A Personal
> Account" 
> (www.class.uidaho.edu/ngier/WilsonStory. htm)
> begins:
> 
> One day in 1975 a nice young man came up to me after
> a session of my 
> “Introduction to Philosophy.”  He introduced himself
> and asked me one 
> question: “Is it OK if I defend the faith in this
> class?”  I answered a 
> fate-filled Yes, and thus began my history with
> Douglas Wilson.  We had 
> friendly theology debates on a regular basis, in and
> out of the 
> classroom.  He wrote a fairly respectable M.A.
> thesis on free will and then 
> took on his local ministry.  He had defended the
> faith well and we only 
> hoped that he would use his degree responsibly.
> Sadly, this appears not to 
> have been the case.
>        In the early 1980s we team taught (along with
> two other people) a 
> course on 20th Century theology, and then we had a
> debate on abortion in 
> February of 1983.  Canon Press may still have tapes
> of the debate, or 
> anyone can borrow my cassette.  Wilson had a regular
> column in what was 
> then called The Idahonian, and Wilson came out with
> a piece that listed 
> points that I tried to refute in the debate.  (For
> the specifics see my 
> article at www.class.uidaho.edu/ngier/abortion.htm.)
>  In a letter to the 
> editor, I cried foul, not because I could claim that
> my refutations were 
> sound; rather, because Wilson did not mention my
> responses at all.  It was 
> at that point that I began to question Wilson’s
> intellectual integrity and 
> honesty, and that has been my main point of
> criticism in the current 
> controversy.
> 
> OK, Donovan, where have I broken any
> confidentiality?  I've used the 
> "defending the faith" story several times in
> Wilson's presence and instead 
> of objecting he laughed along with everyone else,
> including the entire NSA 
> student body in the spring of 2000 in the Nuart
> Theatre.
> 
> Try reflecting just a little bit before you hit the
> keys,
> 
> Nick
>
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> 
> "The god you worship is the god you deserve."
> ~~ Joseph Campbell
> >
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