Washington and Lee U. Students Demand
Removal of Washington and Lee Photos
from Diplomas
Breitbart Tech,
by
Alana Mastrangelo
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
11/27/2019 6:14:01 AM
Students and faculty at Washington and Lee University in Lexington city, Virginia, are demanding that the school remove photos of George Washington and Robert E. Lee from their diplomas.
“We, the undersigned, call on the administration of Washington and Lee University and President William Dudley to provide students with the option of removing the portraits of namesakes Robert E. Lee and George Washington from their diplomas,” proclaim the law students in their petition.
Washington and Lee University diplomas display portraits of both George Washington and Robert E. Lee, given that the school has been named after them.
The petition insists that its signees will be satisfied if school administrators simply give students
Reply 1 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 11/27/2019 6:41:17 AM (No. 246710)
Summary expulsion, as was done to those chumps who wanted to change the name of the school a few years ago.
They knew what it was named when they applied for admission.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Flyball Dogs 11/27/2019 6:56:20 AM (No. 246724)
Expulsion, this morning.
Unless, of course, the administration goes all Chick Fil A and caves.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
chumley 11/27/2019 6:56:53 AM (No. 246725)
Washington and Lee were great Americans who deserve to be remembered. Now if I went to Lincoln and Wilson University, that might be different.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
MickTurn 11/27/2019 7:02:29 AM (No. 246731)
For Students who are whining. You knew the name of the School when you signed up...voluntarily. Now here is your diploma, a used piece of paper from the NY Slimes, page 84G where they admit to their lies. Get out your magnifying glass it's in the smallest print you'll ever see outside a crooked contract!
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I suggest either expulsion or transfer of these so called students. They do not deserve a diploma; anyone suggesting this kind of idiocy is not prepared for life and should not have a diploma that indicates that they are. I certainly would like their names publicized so that I would know who no to hire.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Historybuff 11/27/2019 7:48:11 AM (No. 246767)
Remember when you went to college and came out smarter? Yeah, me too - I'm that old.
From now on, you cannot touch dollar bills or US Quarters - Washington is on them!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Paperpuncher 11/27/2019 8:03:36 AM (No. 246781)
Step by step they are trying to totally eliminate the history of this great country. As all above have said, they knew the name of the university when they applied to it. They did not get drafted to go there. They Volunteered. By the way, Lexington Virginia also is the home for The Virginia Military Institute (VMI) which trained many officers who fought on both sides in the Civil War. Should we just eliminate VMI because some of its candidates fought for the South?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
MSUDoc 11/27/2019 8:32:54 AM (No. 246808)
I’ve never been able to get my head around the hubris of these brats feeling like they can go about making “demands” about anything at all.
In our age where everyone gets a trophy, they all think they’re MLK, but in reality just spoiled insecure, mob-influenced children stuck in adolescence.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Alias Grace 11/27/2019 8:35:48 AM (No. 246813)
Oh, how stupid. These children should be spending their time doing homework, not this nonsense.
13 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
starboard 11/27/2019 8:43:00 AM (No. 246821)
It's time for the people to say NO to their demands.
22 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
Jebediah 11/27/2019 8:52:36 AM (No. 246835)
They do NOT deserve diplomas. BUT the professors who are teaching them this nonsense don't deserve jobs! When will the parents, who are funding these colleges and universities, often at their own detriment financially, wake up and say something----or not allow their kids to attend?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Kafka2 11/27/2019 9:01:31 AM (No. 246841)
Proof that he social/political indoctrination at Washington and Lee University is working -- tuition ill spent.
20 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
Krause 11/27/2019 9:05:44 AM (No. 246846)
Do we know who the instigating professors are? Would Peaches and Cream University help the kiddies feel better?
11 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 11/27/2019 9:41:50 AM (No. 246880)
If you don't like it tear it up, burn it or go to another school.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Strike3 11/27/2019 9:52:55 AM (No. 246897)
These delusional snowflakes would be all in for having a picture of Baraque or Alfred E. Neuman on their diplomas. No wonder lawyers have a reputation of being blood-sucking leeches with no sense of decency or honesty.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
HotRod 11/27/2019 9:53:59 AM (No. 246898)
''We, the administration of Washington and Lee University and President William Dudley, demand that you take your diplomas and get the H*ll out of here!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 11/27/2019 10:13:21 AM (No. 246917)
Nothing like parading their ignorance on the national stage. Used to be, people were too embarrassed to showcase their ignorance for public display and mockery. Not anymore. Then they cry and whine that they get no respect. Respect is earned, not just given. Their parents should be thoroughly ashamed of these spoiled brats, but I doubt it.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Wendybird 11/27/2019 10:19:13 AM (No. 246926)
Meanwhile Virginia Military Institute next door, a vastly superior school, is as proud as ever of theirs. But if they ever go to remove Thomas Jackson’s statue and dig up his body to relocate it, my admiration will fade.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Daria 11/27/2019 10:21:50 AM (No. 246931)
Fine. Replace them with photos of Eisenhower and Reagan.
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There must be an old dot matrix printer on campus somewhere. Pound out whatever the complainers want on some cheap tracked paper and make them happy. Leave the name of the school off while you are at it or better yet redact it by Xing over it.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Smart11344 11/27/2019 11:07:15 AM (No. 247002)
I cry for America if this is the best a college can offer after a student goes in hawk for many thousands of dollar for a pseudo-education. Barney and Bailey were right.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
HisHandmaiden 11/27/2019 11:07:45 AM (No. 247003)
The headline is incorrect, it seems some only want “the option” to remove the pictures only for the law school diploma.
Still this is incredible. General Lee’s Memorial, office, and history are there in the beautiful Chapel near the Colonnades...
Why do/did you/they go there in the first place?
I have two graduate degrees from schools for which I am very grateful.
Makes NO sense!
KAG
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
ZeldaFitzg 11/27/2019 11:14:44 AM (No. 247018)
They need, one by one, to go to Traveller's grave and apologize for their stupidity. He is buried near Lee Chapel, where Marse Robert is buried. (BTW, in days of old when tradition mattered, a young man would visit Traveler's grave for luck before asking his sweetheart to marry him.)
Not a single one of these puling brats has the mental capacity or character of the fine men they denigrate. There used to be something known as "college material." I think that concept has gone by the wayside.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
udanja99 11/27/2019 12:28:45 PM (No. 247087)
#26 reminded me that there is a wonderful historical novel called “Traveller” by Richard Adams of “Watership Down” fame. It chronicles the Civil War through the eyes of Lee’s famous war horse. If you haven’t read it, do.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
cor-vet 11/27/2019 1:16:54 PM (No. 247107)
So easy. Just get the names of the complaining snowflakes, hand write a diploma on a 8.5 x 11 legal paper and send them on their way.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
kono 11/27/2019 1:18:21 PM (No. 247110)
Everybody who works there freely applied for their job, and every student attending there freely applied for entry. Let the faculty who are ashamed of the university's namesakes find jobs at other institutions. And the students similarly loath to be associated with Washington and/or Lee transfer to other institutions named after people they can accept. (Those who have already graduated can have their names removed from their diplomas and receive a written promise not to divulge to anybody their alumni status.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Fhall 11/27/2019 1:21:00 PM (No. 247113)
Don’t pick up your diploma
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
kono 11/27/2019 1:27:46 PM (No. 247124)
Additionally, I earnestly hope that a group of faculty, students, and alumni who are PROUD to be there will bear witness to that in some prominent way.
Name any person deserving an honor who did not also evidence human flaws. Find any person who had no sins of their own, and name your groups and institutions after them. Then everything would be Jesus and Mary. (But that would frost the arses of these snowflakes just as much.)
The disgruntled should be expelled and instructed to make of their own lives something they would consider worthy of having a respectable organization or institution named after them. Or sit down, shut up, learn some truth, and gain some wisdom.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
RedWhite&Blue2 11/27/2019 1:43:28 PM (No. 247142)
GTFOH!
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
JonR 11/27/2019 2:08:53 PM (No. 247161)
The inmates are trying to run the asylum! Now will these universities cave? Probably so....
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Historybuff 11/27/2019 2:46:03 PM (No. 247187)
This is too easy: Tell them that it's named after Denzel Washington and Spike Lee.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
rochow 11/27/2019 4:37:13 PM (No. 247246)
Easy, the undersigned will not get a diploma. End of story. Go somewhere else where they will accept your credit and get your diploma there. They knew the name of the university ahead of time, you do not make demands now. Don't like the alternative? Just get lost.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
preciosodrogas 11/27/2019 6:06:26 PM (No. 247280)
Is the glass half full or half? Should they not take pride in their school? It went from slavery to becoming educated to the error of that system. What the kids should focus on is not because slave supporters ... which is where they are headed when they try to drive this country toward communism.
College students is there anything they don't know?
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You knew what they were when you signed up. Why didn't you go to school in Chicago or California ?
Worse yet, why do schools cater to spoiled brats ? Why let stupid people graduate ?
Post their names and let it follow them the rest of their sorry lives online.
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If these moronic snowflakes don't want photos of Washington and Lee on their diplomas, they always have the option of transferring to another school. W&L needs to stand firm in rejecting this idiocy!!