WILLIAM & MARY ALUMNI: PUT UP THE CROSS OR WE TAKE DOWN THE MONEY

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


College of William & Mary President Gene Nichol removed the Christian cross from the 313-year-old college chapel.


Now alumni are informing him to return the cross or they will re move the cash, per Natasha Altamirano of The Washington Times.


Bates’ College, Lewiston, ME, has now made the former Christian chapel a free-for-all for world religions. Their banners hand from the ceiling. The Christ presence has been substituted with everything but. Nevertheless, those related to the college present and past tense don’t seem to care; so the sacrilege continues.


However, when it comes to William & Mary, there is a far different constituency.


“Karen Hall, a 1978 alumna, has decided not to renew her membership to William & Mary’s Fourth Century Club, a fundraising group.


“’I felt like the best voice I had was my checkbook,’ said Ms. Hall, a member of a student, alumni and faculty group called Save the Wren Cross Coalition. ‘If they’re going to become famous as the school that took the cross out of the chapel … I can’t in good conscience write them checks.’



“The issue has drawn national attention to the 7,500-student college.

Entire article here.