I get confused. I remember everything. I remember too much, and... some of it's made up, and... some of it can't be quantified, and... there's secrets.

River ,'Safe'


Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


Hil R. - Aug 13, 2009 5:58:40 pm PDT #19643 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

They're Baptist. Part of their mission statement is

Baylor encourages all of its students to cultivate their capacity to think critically, to assess information from a Christian perspective, to arrive at informed and reasoned conclusions, and to become lifelong learners.

I don't think I could teach students to "assess information from a Christian perspective."

Their non-discrimination policy states about twenty times that, as a religious institution, they are exempt from the non-discrimination rules covering religion.


amych - Aug 13, 2009 6:02:59 pm PDT #19644 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

"Baylor hires only Christians and Jews.... the school gives hiring preference to Baptists first, followed by other Protestant evangelicals, then other Protestants, other Christians, and lastly Jews.": [link]

Baylor recruitment policy: [link]


Hil R. - Aug 13, 2009 6:03:40 pm PDT #19645 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Oh, and their policy on sexual misconduct forbids

sexual abuse, sexual harassment, sexual assault, incest, adultery, fornication and homosexual acts.


amych - Aug 13, 2009 6:04:33 pm PDT #19646 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Still, they allow men and women on the same side of the street. Stinkin' libruls.


meara - Aug 13, 2009 6:04:58 pm PDT #19647 of 30000

Oh wow. Interesting how they rank people! Thanks amych. I'm so intrigued. I'm not saying it doesn't make sense, I guess--as a private Baptist place, if that's their thing, that's their thing (...I think if you want someone to teach math, limiting them by religion may not get you the best math teacher, but...up to you when you choose to do that and go there, etc).

(I did see that they don't allow alcohol at any university function on or off campus, and you're not supposed to put your affiliation, as a professor, to any "partisan" stuff you write, but somehow I"m guessing that rule is bent more for one side than the other. I'm just guessing.)


Hil R. - Aug 13, 2009 6:12:01 pm PDT #19648 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

There are some schools that require faculty to sign a Statement of Christian Faith.


Hil R. - Aug 13, 2009 6:14:17 pm PDT #19649 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I did see that they don't allow alcohol at any university function on or off campus

At Tulane, the rule was no alcohol at university functions to which undergrads were invited. So at the undergrad math seminars, there would be a reception afterwards with soda and cookies, but for the grad seminars (which I went to a bunch of my junior and senior years, even though I technically was not invited) the reception was wine and cheese. That rule went into place in the middle of my freshman year, and the French department, which always had wine after their seminars, was just furious.


Hil R. - Aug 13, 2009 6:21:52 pm PDT #19650 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Stinkin' libruls.

My father, who used to eat only iceberg lettuce in his salads, has started eating arugula whenever my mom buys it, to show his solidarity with the arugula-eating elitist liberals.


brenda m - Aug 13, 2009 6:28:36 pm PDT #19651 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Oh my god. They're a major health care institution in that region, which just squicks me out so much worse.

Our head of IT, E, who is super smart, funny, politically astute and whom I adore, was (not)married to one of my colleagues for seven or eight years. Not married because they're both men of course. (They since divorced, which is the term R used when he told me what was going on.)

I was look at E's bio for something where we needed to identify everyone's degrees and he went to...Bob Jones University.

It's been like two years since this happened and I still haven't wrapped my mind around that one.


WindSparrow - Aug 13, 2009 7:22:05 pm PDT #19652 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.

I was look at E's bio for something where we needed to identify everyone's degrees and he went to...Bob Jones University.

At Cedarville U., we referred to the place as Bob Jones Versus Unity.