http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2012/05/03/vanderbilt-and-limited-government/ A First Things Blog Sat, 25 May 2013 21:29:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2012/05/03/vanderbilt-and-limited-government/comment-page-1/#comment-63608 Emil Sun, 06 May 2012 00:09:20 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=42624#comment-63608 VU wants faith-based student organizations to accept all comers. However, fraternities and sororities do not. Surely, walk-ons cannot expect to make the football and basketball teams. And, indeed, VU does not accept all who want to attend the university. Am I missing something?

]]> http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2012/05/03/vanderbilt-and-limited-government/comment-page-1/#comment-63555 Austin Fri, 04 May 2012 03:54:19 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=42624#comment-63555 As a Vanderbilt alumnae, I am disappointed in my alma mater. My daughter is a senior and we went to hear the Vanderbilt college talk when they came to our town. The recruiter gave a history of the university, never mentioning its Methodist roots. The story now is that old man Vanderbilt started the university to reunite a nation divided by the civil war and that’s all there is to it. I suppose that’s why he wanted it named after him! Its religion is obviously an intolerant secularism…no longer content with neutrality but fostering hostility. My daughter is going to Emory, where they are not ashamed of their Methodist heritage .

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