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(05-24-2019, 10:18 PM)Dill Wrote: Who is the OWNER of Taylor University?  

When the Boston tea partiers threw British tea in the Boston harbor, were they making that event about themselves? Were the civil rights protesters in Alabama, led by King in 1963, making that event about themselves? I wonder if you can name a political protest in which protestors did not "make it about themselves," and how you can tell.  Can you name a political protest in which protestors were NOT accused of selfish motives? Kudos to the vast majority of African-Americans who chose not to participate in 1963? Yours is indeed a conservative view of protest.  Impossible that the administration could be "making it about themselves" by going against faculty and students?

Why do you think "PUBLIC-FACiNG" suddenly makes the administration employers and the faculty employees? 

More explanation of how shared governance works.  Neither the faculty nor the Board are tasked directly wiith inviting speakers, but they are supposed to "consult" with the other members of the governance troika. In this case they took the risk of dismissing faculty views. They may be ok if the board backs them and enough faculty; but they will not be ok if that is not the case. They can be "fired" by their "employees," though not before the speaker speaks.  One way of making sure the balance of power gets re-aligned is to protest--most especially at a "public-facing event," which lets the world know the choice does not represent the whole university. That other universities, like Notre Dame, have done this sends another signal about this particular speaker. 

You didn't answer the direct question posed you merely started asking other questions and talking about the Boston Tea Party and Civil Rights.

So let's try it again using your terms: If the majority of the  of this shared governance voted against Pence speaking why was he invited to speak?

Please don't tell me about the War of 1812, just answer the simple question posed. I know the simple answer.