[Vision2020] Big Fire from the Low-Lying Atwood with Wilson's approval

[J Ford]

With special note of appreciation to poohsthink.com:

This is the type of crap that Atwood and NSA and CC are capable of...and 
people wonder why there is so much concern about NSA being downtown or even 
IN town.  A letter of this type WOULD NEVER COME FROM UI/WSU nor any other 
university or college, nor for that matter, any other "men's club" that I 
know of.  "As an teine don ghriasaich - From bad to worse":

"Wilson was not very interested in accountability amongst the Good ‘ol 
“colleagues.” (when this was questioned)...the following letter was written 
to numerous people, some of who had been long term members of Christ Church, 
one of them poor and with plenty of known problems to not need a letter like 
this. I think this also gives a flavor for how truly ‘community’ minded the 
institution has become; after all, this letter is written to affiliated 
Christians who actually wanted to go to a New St. Andrew’s Ball, not 
intoleristas.

New St. Andrews College

Dear    ­­­­­­­­­____________:

On behalf of New St. Andrews College, I’m writing to confront you as a 
brother in Christ about your decision to attend the NSA Winter Ball last 
week without permission and without paying, to ask you to apologize 
formally, and to make full restitution as appropriate.

If, in fact, you attended the ball as I am told after being denied 
admittance, you need to do two things at the very least: first, you should 
apologize personally to _________ and ___________, who worked very hard to 
organize the event and treated everyone—including you—fairly and honestly in 
terms of the rules outlined in the application, for your inappropriate, 
unilateral decision to crash our private dance; and second, if you have not 
yet paid and contributed an additional amount to the scholarship fund, you 
should do so immediately to make full restitution for essentially stealing 
(the admission price) from the College and stealing from those who paid in 
full according to the registration rules. Those who attended with permission 
had every right and expectation of not having an overcrowded dance floor. 
Your decision to crash the ball was not only wrong but rude, so as a brother 
I ask you confess it, apologize, and pay more than you would have as a 
regular attendee.

Perhaps there were mitigating circumstances surrounding your attendance that 
would change or correct our perspective, but at this point, we are not aware 
of any.  Let me know if there are. But barring that, please reconcile 
yourself to ­­­­­­­­­­_____ and _______ in a way befitting a brother in 
Christ and make full restitution to the College.

We are delighted you were so anxious to attend the NSA ball, but next year I 
urge you to sign up before the deadline and follow the directions and 
decisions of the coordinators with the respect and honor they deserve.

Sincerely,

Roy Alden Atwood, Ph.D.
Dean"


"An fear toiciúil gustalach tuig ní an fear bocht - The well to do 
understand not the needy."

"Is fhearr teine beag a gharas na teine mor a loisgeas. -  Better the little 
fire that warms than the big fire that burns."


SUGGESTION:  Next time you guys need "donations" for Cannon Press or NSA, 
hold a dance, tell  only the special select few last minute, allow word of 
mouth to inform others about it and CHARGE PEOPLE DOUBLE WHEN THEY ATTEND 
WITHOUT SPECIFIC PERMISSION.  Who knows - maybe Cannon Press could finally 
get out of the red with this method of "fun"d raising.

J  :]

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