[Vision2020] Heads up

[debismith at moscow.com]

Decidedly odd. Mr. Schlect is the Academic Dean of NSA? If I assume his 
letter is reprinted here accurately, the Academic Dean has the writing 
ability of a backward 12 year-old. Somehow, though, that is not 
particularly surprising. If one can wrap his head around some of the 
other craziness exhibted and espoused by the Christ Church mind-set, one 
can easily believe this man is the personification of "Academic Dean". 
>From Doug Wilson on down through the CC ranks, they believe their own BS 
enough to keep playing over their collective heads...

Debi Robinson-Smith


> Yesterday I received the following email from Chris Schlect, the 
Academic
> Dean of New St. Andrews College, regarding a vision2020 post from 
several
> months ago. Given that many of you have commented on the recent
> controversies surrounding NSA I was wondering if anyone else has been
> contacted by Mr. Schlect. For those of you who are following 
poohsthink.com
> Mr. Schlect serves on the Christ Church Judicial Committee (Doug Jones,
> Chair). A copy of my original post follows Mr. Schlect's email.
> 
> Dear Terry,
> 
> I have learned that a couple months ago you published a letter to
> Vision2020 concerning New Saint Andrews College. Your letter followed
> a public hearing in which the proprietor of Paradise Ridge testified
> to feeling pressure from an NSA student to sign a petition. From his
> testimony you formulated a characterization of the whole college and
> those associated with us.
> 
> Perhaps Nate did behave badly to this man. But Terry, this one man's
> testimony falls well short of the Bible's basis for you to draw your
> conclusion, much less to use your conclusion as a springboard for the
> broadside you launched.
> 
> What this man described about Nate was a practice that you taught to
> me to do as a representative of Printer Pro. When I worked for you,
> you made a point to list for me who your customers were, and you
> explicitly instructed me to me identify nearby customers as a way to
> influence prospective customers. Naturally, there's a way to do this
> that is obnoxious, and another way that's appropriate. You certainly
> would have disapproved if I presented myself obnoxiously. (When
> selling for Printer Pro I was quite self-conscious about coming off
> as obnoxious. My temptation ran the opposite direction: to not be as
> confident or assertive as I should have been.)
> 
> My concern is this: you publicly chastised one of our students for
> this incident--and through him, our whole student body, faculty, and
> administration--on the basis of one report. You did not seek out
> another perspective. What's more, what Mr. Williams described in our
> student's behavior (in a charitable reading of it) is consistent with
> how you wanted me to act when I represented your business to your
> perspective customers.
> 
> I wish you would meet the young man who went to the area businesses
> and obtained those signatures. His name is Nate Halverson. I have
> known Nate for a few years now. To be sure, Nate possesses some of
> the marks immaturity common to a fellow his age, though far less so
> than I did at his age, and many of my peers who know Nate would say
> the same thing. I know Nate well enough to have a sense of the
> impression he leaves on others.
> 
> Not only this, I know the impression that Nate left on numerous
> business people with whom he spoke in regard to the petition. Nate
> left a positive impression on them.
> 
> I am grateful that Nate Halverson is an NSA student, and happily own
> up to my own association with him. He is a blessing to this
> community. I would happily introduce Nate to you, and I can also show
> you a delightful body of students that, by their character and
> conduct, rebukes the way you hastily represented them.
> 
> For what it's worth, for years I have regarded Mr. Williams as my
> favorite downtown merchant, and I send people to him. Though it's
> been awhile now since I've been in his shop, I have on several
> occasions taken the time to speak to him, especially about how
> destructive to his business it is when young people pirate mp3 files.
> But that's beside the point.
> 
> Is this something you would be willing to correct, or at least address 
to
> Nate?
> 
> Best to you,
> 
> Chris Schlect
> 
> P.S. How are Linda and the kids? I am genuinely interested to know
> what your kids are up to now.
> 
> 
> 
> Christopher R. Schlect, Academic Dean
> New Saint Andrews College
> P. O. Box 9025 / 405 South Main Street
> Moscow, ID 83843
> tel 208.882.1566
> fax 208.882.4293
> www.nsa.edu
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> 
> From: ³Terry Morin² <terrencemorin at earthlink.net>
> 
> To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> 
> Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 2:28 PM
> 
> Subject: [Vision2020] Monday Public Hearing
> 
> The public testimony at last night¹s public hearing on the proposed 
change
> to the zoning code for schools in non-residential areas ran the gamut, 
but
> the most sobering words of the hearing came from David Williams, 
proprietor
> of Paradise Ridge CDs and Tapes, as he described his own experiences on 
the
> business end of the city code. From his description Monday night, Mr.
> Williams and his family received the full force of the law, as a 
consequence
> of some apparent violation of the code. No one mounted a large public
> campaign to change the law to accommodate his situation, however
> unintentional it may have been. And, to be fair, the city of Moscow was
> under no legal obligation to give Mr. Williams relief from the 
requirements
> of the law, indeed, the city was obligated, as Mr. Williams put it, to
> enforce those requirements, to his own hurt.
> 
> With the passage of the proposed zoning ordinance change (on first 
reading),
> allowing NSA to remain in the central business district, the Christian
> liberal arts college received, not the full force of law, but something
> entirely different, and distinctly Christian. They received grace, not
> grudgingly or sparingly, but freely given from an authority they have
> otherwise despised. In other circumstances I would be hopeful that the 
grace
> given them would beget a new birth of good citizenship in the 
administration
> of NSA. But other testimony from Mr. Williams and from Mr. Bode about
> deceitful and manipulative tactics by the NSA student responsible for
> canvassing local businesses for support tell me not to hope. Maybe their
> experiences with the student were anomalous. As a downtown business 
owner,
> I¹ve received my share of public and private harassment from some of 
Pastor
> Wilson¹s followers and ³ministries,² and am inclined to think the 
treatment
> received by these other proprietors at their hands typical. But this I 
know,
> wherever NSA eventually locates, there are no zoning districts in which
> bullying and intimidation are welcome, tolerated, or even allowed with a
> Conditional Use Permit.
> 
> -- 
> Terry and Linda Morin
> 1232 Tamarack Drive
> Moscow, ID  83843
> 208.882.6251
> 
> 
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