“LC headed in right direction”
BACKWARDS!
I think this shall fall on deaf ears, but hopefully there will be a seed planted. I read something recently and therefore should heed this advice. It simply reads: “Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly and leave the rest to God.”
Hey maybe it works for you… it seems like good personal, spiritual advice, but it’s not exactly a fitting motto for an academic institution.
I was reading Your Mail in The Town Talk last week and was saddened by the gentleman writing about taking his money from Louisiana College and how campus “legends” were leaving their posts and also about student protests.
Students are protesting, “legendary” professors are quitting, and rich alumns are not giving money anymore. Yeah, LC is definitely headed in the “right” direction.
What a terrible time for a few disgruntled people trying to stop a college that is still interested in morals and biblical teaching.
A few disgruntled people? I think there are more than just a few.
Why is it so wrong to want to keep our children from being exposed to certain writings or movies? Why should we open the door for our children to have a choice between good and evil?
WHAT? Children???? The people who attend LC are NOT children, and you can no longer “protect” them from REALITY. And what is this about “having a choice between good and evil?” Huh? Are you implying that good Baptists don’t have the ability to choose between good and evil?
If your son asked for bread would you give him a stone? “If my people would humble themselves and pray …”
Huh? What does that have anything to do with LC?
I would just like to say “thank you” to Dr. Joe Aguillard, LC president, and the wonderful staff and students who have prayed, taken a stand and not cast their pearl before swine.
Pearl before swine? So people who protest this hostile takeover are “swine?”
Faye Bergen
CenLamar 
Truth be told, the extreme liberals that are fighting against Aguillard are as bad as the righ wing fundamentalist. Unfortunately the big middle is where most are and they are not being heard from. One thing is for sure. Such orchestrated and timed announcements as Howells only acts to give the person some selfish gratification while solidifying the conservative oppostion and thus working to strengthen that faction that Howell and those like him claim to oppose.
“Extreme liberals?” In Pineville? I think we’re hearing from the “big middle” who want to see LC keep its accreditation. Remember what is at stake here: LC’s basic survival as a college. If it transforms into a Bible school, LC will lose its accreditation. Plain and simple.
As far as Professor Howell: Your argument is backwards. Howell’s announcement didn’t seem orchestrated and timed. It is what it is. Howell got another job and announced his intent to take the other job. Because the man is so respected, the TT wanted to interview him. He agreed. It seems to be you’ve been watching too much Fox News. (Anytime something befalls the “right wing” it is somehow good for the base).
It is NOT a Bible college. Accredidation is no longer in jeapordy. and YES Howells announcement and timing 2 days before the Presidents Inaguration were timed. Ive talked to people at LC and they seem proud of it. So as an “outsider” you are drinking the cool aide as its being dispursed to you . There are extremeist on both sides. They are the ones stirring the pot and the extremest on the left are only making the extremist ont he right that much more solidified.
I understand where you get your impressions. But Ive been a student there I know the people involved and its BETTER and its WORSE than you hear.
Well, I beg to differ. If LC adopts the Mission 2000 statement as an academic guideline, then it WILL be in jeopardy of losing accreditation… and it will be treated like a Bob Jones or a Liberty. I still don’t see any extremism on the so-called left: I just see a bunch of people who are righteously angry that the college they signed up for (or the college they earned a degree from) is changing its academic paradigm.
You understand where I get my impressions? Look, no offense. You mau have once been a student there, but many of my best friends are CURRENT students there. I know that they now attempt to coerce a particular religious faith onto their students. No question. I know that they invite people into their school whose primary agenda is proselytization. (And they REQUIRE students to participate in these events).
Last week (I believe), a man who had converted to Christianity from Islam spoke to students about how terrible Islam is. Now, of course, I believe in his right to say whatever he wants to… but in an academic setting, I also believe that it is important to strike a balance between the fiery rhetoric of a recent convert and the reality of everyday Islam.
That said, I earned a bachelors in religious studies at Rice.
Maybe, by definition, that makes me an extremist.