Lame conservative statists attack college over a sexual orientation memoir, labeling it 'pornographic'

In keeping with this city’s veneration of things old, stately and Southern, the College of Charleston remains a genteel enough place that for spring commencement exercises, male students don white dinner jackets while women slip into white dresses.

Lame conservative statists attack college over a sexual orientation memoir, labeling it 'pornographic' CHARLESTON-articleLarge-v2

Lame conservative statists attack college over a sexual orientation memoir, labeling it 'pornographic' CHARLESTON-articleLarge-v2

But in recent months, two rancorous and still-evolving disputes — one centered on the newly selected president’s affection for the history of the Confederacy and another about encouraging incoming students to read the memoir of a lesbian — have thrust this oldest college south of Virginia into protracted turmoil as the latest flash point in the nation’s culture wars.

The serene campus is now the site of regular demonstrations by some of its more than 11,000 students. The Faculty Senate has decreed that it has no confidence in the college’s governing board. And in Columbia, the capital, certain conservative lawmakers speak openly of reducing the college’s budget.

For a place that occasionally markets itself as offering an “education in paradise,” the extent and longevity of the furor has showcased the depth of the rift between the institution and the elected officials who help oversee it.

More: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/23/us/for-genteel-college-of-charleston-an-unaccustomed-turmoil.html?_r=0

Lame conservative statists attack college over a sexual orientation memoir, labeling it 'pornographic'

Lame conservative statists attack college over a sexual orientation memoir, labeling it 'pornographic'

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