The alumni of William & Mary are getting serious. They’ve started a Web site called ShouldNicholBeRenewed.org I posted the other day on this new phenomenon of alumni getting involved when their beloved institutions fall victim to former ’60s radicals-turned-academics, and I specifically mentioned Nichol, who made his lefty bones as the dean of UNC’s law school:
What we challenge are the assumptions that our Endowment is as healthy as Mr. Nichol tells us. We challenge our ratings. We challenge Mr. Nichol’s imperial leadership style. We challenge his record. We challenge his approach to divide-and-conquer to isolate people who ask questions.
We WANTED Mr. Nichol to succeed. If he succeeds, the College succeeds. But when we looked below the Public-Relations surface, we discovered that we’re not making the progress we thought we were.
As outrage increases over these higher-ed excesses, the W&M Tribe alums could be paving the way for other alums. I’m sure Chancellor Moeser and UNC and President Brodhead at Duke are watching this closely, as are many college presidents who have pushed the PC boundaries to absurd limits over the past 10 years or so.
