A Sea Of Red

WSET just reported that a judge ruled Randolph College cannot auction off artwork in their museum.

Did he grant the injunction against the sale or dismiss the case?

Good to know, the last I heard they were still deliberating. I will be excited to see what happens with all of this.

As a RMWC alumna I am glad to see that RC is getting the screws put to them.

As a RMWC alumna I am glad to see that RC is getting the screws put to them.

Maybe that explains why she started the Speed Dating/prostitution thread.

mechildress wrote:Good to know, the last I heard they were still deliberating. I will be excited to see what happens with all of this.

As a RMWC alumna I am glad to see that RC is getting the screws put to them.

How come? It's their stuff.

Because they are looking for a quick fix to the problems they are having with accreditation. They are destroying the very tradition that the school was created upon. It is one thing to make improvements to a school and quite another to spit in the face of tradition and destroy the very foundation upon which it is created.

Cider Jim wrote:

As a RMWC alumna I am glad to see that RC is getting the screws put to them.

Maybe that explains why she started the Speed Dating/prostitution thread.

That is right speaking on behalf of the "whore's on the hill" we know a little about prostitution.

mechildress wrote:

Cider Jim wrote:

As a RMWC alumna I am glad to see that RC is getting the screws put to them.

Maybe that explains why she started the Speed Dating/prostitution thread.

That is right speaking on behalf of the "whore's on the hill" we know a little about prostitution.

I have no words to even respond....classic.

mechildress wrote:Because they are looking for a quick fix to the problems they are having with accreditation. They are destroying the very tradition that the school was created upon. It is one thing to make improvements to a school and quite another to spit in the face of tradition and destroy the very foundation upon which it is created.

Wouldn't losing accreditation fly more in the face of an academic institution's tradition than selling off the art collection?

I'm not trying to be a smart aleck, it just seems to me that retaining accreditation and keeping the doors open would be pretty important to the school.

Disclaimer: I am not a woman, so I realize it is entirely possible that I do not understand the ways of the RMWC.

I do not understand the ways of the RMWC.

There is no RMWC--it's Randolph College now and always will be, as long as they can keep the doors open.

Scorcho,

I appreciate your attempt to understand the "ways of the RMWC" but here is the deal. RC is NOT RMWC. It would have been easier to cope with if RMWC had closed their doors and reopened a new school-- RC than to prevert what used to be RMWC into what it has become. Alumnae could mourn the loss, but remember the good times and beauty of the tradition that we all loved.

I have no loyalty to RC and secretly hope that they don't get their accreditation. I am not in support of RC, and am loving that they are not able to sell the artwork to make a quick buck to show that they are on better financial ground. They have been looking for quick fixes, and I am glad that they are not granted this one.

you are petty. What is the purpose of hoping they fail? Nothing will change, except maybe LU will own more property. I could understand simply not caring about them but hoping they fail is pretty spiteful and really not good for you.

Here's the link:
http://www.wset.com/news/stories/1107/471120.html

mechildress wrote:Scorcho,

I appreciate your attempt to understand the "ways of the RMWC" but here is the deal. RC is NOT RMWC. It would have been easier to cope with if RMWC had closed their doors and reopened a new school-- RC than to prevert what used to be RMWC into what it has become. Alumnae could mourn the loss, but remember the good times and beauty of the tradition that we all loved.

I have no loyalty to RC and secretly hope that they don't get their accreditation. I am not in support of RC, and am loving that they are not able to sell the artwork to make a quick buck to show that they are on better financial ground. They have been looking for quick fixes, and I am glad that they are not granted this one.

I know, I know. I'm aware of the change. I'm just saying it seemed that RMWC was dying and they're trying to save it, which seems more important to tradition (to me), than how they accomplish it. I can certainly appreciate resisting compromise, though.

That is just it they didn't save it. They created a new school and are passing it off as the old school.

We would all be up in arms if LU suddenly decided to be a Wican school instead of the Christian University it was founded to be.

mechildress wrote:That is just it they didn't save it. They created a new school and are passing it off as the old school.

We would all be up in arms if LU suddenly decided to be a Wican school instead of the Christian University it was founded to be.

I get where you're coming from now. Understood.

That being the case, do you think the old school was still viable?

El Scorcho wrote:

mechildress wrote:That is just it they didn't save it. They created a new school and are passing it off as the old school.

We would all be up in arms if LU suddenly decided to be a Wican school instead of the Christian University it was founded to be.

I get where you're coming from now. Understood.

That being the case, do you think the old school was still viable?

Not at the rate that they were spending their endowment, but I am curious where the money was going. I have said from the very beginning that they should have closed the school, let the alumnae mourn and reopen a new school. I think they would have had more support that way.

so its more important that the school not change and go bankrupt than for it to adapt and change to further advancing the education of young women and men? well that sounds REALLY logical...

Female hysteria running amok. A scorched earth policy attempt by some disgruntled women without a clue.

seems selfish to me to want a school to fail. if the school were to go bankrupt hundreds (they do have over 100 employees dont they?) of employees would be without a job - and i'm sure a great deal of those employees rely on that money to survive. but no, screw them and their families and screw those kids who want to get an education at RC because they aren't all female anymore.