<p><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Fantasy:</span></b></p>
<p><span> </span></p>
<p><span> </span></p>
<p><span>From:<span> </span><span> </span><b><i>Scholasterix</i></b></span></p>
<p><span><span> </span><i>Notes, Memos, and Moments from Logos School</i></span></p>
<p><span><span> </span>January/February/March
2003, Volume 13, Number 3</span></p>
<p><span><span> </span>Page 3,
right hand column</span></p>
<p><span> </span></p>
<p><span> </span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Changes in the By-Laws</span></b></p>
<p><span> </span></p>
<p><span><span> </span>As the Logos School Board considers
an amendment to our by-laws that would limit board membership to men, the board
thought it would be helpful to state a few principles that the board is taking
into account:</span></p>
<p><span> </span></p>
<p><span><span> </span>First, we are <b><i>not</i></b> considering this
amendment because we believe that the scriptural requirement of men only in the
eldership of a church applies to the board of a school.<span> </span>Thus in our view, it is not a question of
whether it is a "sin" to have a woman on the board, but rather a
question of wisdom and prudence in our current cultural circumstances.</span></p>
<p><span> </span></p>
<p><span><span> </span>Second, in regard to those
circumstances, we believe it is necessary to resist egalitarian feminism, which
has spread through our culture and has even affected many parts of the
church.<span> </span>As a classical, Christian school
committed to the Scriptures as our ultimate rule of faith and practice, we
believe we have an obligation to set a positive example.<span> </span>Sad to say, frequently in the current
climate, women seeking positions of authority (e.g. on a school board)
subscribe to some form of feminist philosophy.<span>
</span>Rather than vetoing a nomination (which would appear to be personal
instead of principled), we would rather address the issue this way, without
involving personalities.</span></p>
<p><span> </span></p>
<p><span><span> </span>Third, we want to positively
encourage the involvement of the fathers and husbands in the God-ordained oversight
of their children's education (Eph. 6:4).<span>
</span>As we do this, it creates a "de facto" presence of men only on
the board (as it has been for the last fourteen years), and leaves the school
in a legally unprotected position.<span> </span>Courts
have consistently found that discrimination can be "proved" from
nothing more than the "results," and so it would be only prudent to
have our practice outlined as a principle within our by-laws.</span></p>
<p><span> </span></p>
<p style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span>By
law changes:</span></p>
<p style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span>Approved
January 20, 2003</span></p>
<p><span> </span></p>
<p><span> </span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Reality:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/EDUCATION/02/11/harvard.president.ap/index.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.cnn.com/2007/EDUCATION/02/11/harvard.president.ap/index.html
</a><br clear="all"><br><h1>Harvard names first woman president
</h1><div><h4><span>Story Highlights</span></h4><b>• NEW:</b> Historian and Radcliffe Institute dean Drew Gilpin Faust to lead Harvard<br>
• She replaced Lawrence Summers who made remarks in '05 some felt sexist<br>
• <span style="font-weight: bold;">Faust's appointment means half of U.S. Ivy League schools run by women</span><br>
</div><p><b>CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts</b>
(AP) -- Drew Gilpin Faust recalls her mother lecturing her that "this
is a man's world, sweetie, and the sooner you learn that, the better
off you'll be."</p><p>It was a lesson, she wrote in a memoir, that she refused to accept.</p><p>On Sunday, Harvard University named Faust the first female president in the school's 371-year history.</p><p>"I
hope that my own appointment can be one symbol of an opening of
opportunities that would have been inconceivable even a generation
ago," Faust said. But she also added, "I'm not the woman president of
Harvard, I'm the president of Harvard."</p><p>A Civil War scholar and
respected university insider, Faust, 59, emerged as a candidate
considered by the school's governing body to be best suited to cool
tensions within the faculty after the tumultuous five-year presidency
of Lawrence Summers.</p><p>Two years ago, Summers created an uproar
when he said that genetic gender differences may explain why few women
rise to top science jobs. At the height of the controversy, Faust
oversaw two panels that examined gender diversity on campus.</p><p>She
has been dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study since 2001,
two years after the former women's college merged into Harvard as a
research center with a mission to study gender issues.</p><p>Faust was
elected by the seven-member Harvard Corporation, the school's governing
body, and ratified by the 30-member Board of Overseers.</p><p style="font-weight: bold;">With
Faust's appointment, half of the eight Ivy League schools have woman
presidents. The other three are Amy Gutmann of the University of
Pennsylvania, Shirley M. Tilghman of Princeton University, and Ruth J.
Simmons of Brown University.</p><p>Faust pivots from managing
Radcliffe, a think-tank with 87 employees and a $17 million budget, to
presiding over Harvard's 11 schools and colleges, 24,000 employees and
a budget of $3 billion.</p><p>"She will need to scale up and she's shown all the qualities that suggest she'll do that superbly," Gutmann said.</p><p>Lydia
Barlow, a 26-year-old graduate student of Middle Eastern studies, said
Faust is "going to have to be outstanding" because "people see it as a
knee-jerk reaction to the comments made by President Summers."</p><p>But Robert Reischauer, a Corporation member, disagreed.</p><p>"All
the reports have been 'gender, gender, gender,' and I'm thinking to
myself 'isn't that funny? That has not been something we've talked
about at all,"' he said.</p><p>In Faust, Harvard not only has its first
woman leader, but a president who has candidly discussed her feminist
ideals in a memoir, "Shapers of Southern History: Autobiographical
Reflections." In it, she recalled her mother's advice about a "man's
world."</p><p>Born Catherine Gilpin to a privileged family in
Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, Faust recalls a conversation with the
family's black handyman and driver that inspired her to send a letter
-- written in block letters on school notebook paper -- to President
Eisenhower pleading for desegregation.</p><p>Faust joins an exclusive
roster of Harvard presidents that has included colonial clergymen, Bay
State patricians and a cabinet secretary.</p><p>Interim President Derek Bok will serve until July 1 when Faust takes over.</p><p>Faust
becomes the first president without a Harvard degree since Charles
Chauncy, an alumnus of Cambridge University, who died in office in
1672. She attended Bryn Mawr College and the University of
Pennsylvania, where she was also a professor of Southern history.</p><p>"Faculty
turned to her constantly as someone whose opinion is to be trusted,"
said Shelton Hackney, a former president of the University of
Pennsylvania and a Southern historian. "She's very clear,
well-organized. She has a sense of humor, but she's very even-keeled.
You come to trust in her because she's so solid."</p><p>The Harvard
presidency is perhaps the most prestigious job in higher education,
offering an academic pulpit and unparalleled resources -- a university
endowment valued at nearly $30 billion.</p><p>But the job also comes with sharp scrutiny from a distinguished faculty and relentless pressure to meet fundraising benchmarks.</p><p>Summers
often stumbled in maintaining a diplomatic balance with the school's
disparate factions. Displeasure with what many professors called a
brusque management style ultimately led to a no confidence vote from
faculty last February.</p><p>"I believe Faust will bring dignity and
honor back to Harvard," said Harry R. Lewis, a former Harvard dean who
wrote a book that criticized the school for coddling students.</p><br><br><br>-- <br><br><br>Juanita Flores<br>Advocate for the Truth from Jesus