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Dude, other articles on that site talk about a second shooter in Florida. It's hard to give a lot of credibility to this.

Is Millsaps a sanctuary college for seriously obese co-eds?

Rude, crude and stupid. Must be college kids. (See today's "Zits" comic strip.)

Not to excuse the crudity, but this "Big League Politics" website got a little too excited about the chance to expose "vandalism" of a "Christian center." You can't vandalize a building that will be completely renovated.

These pictures will look good on their resume.NOT!

Millsaps isn't what it used to be at all. Used to be a fine school..now it's just trying to stay open.

Those parents need to be lining up and demanding refunds.

I'm ashamed to say I even went here.

Christian Center is not a religious student center, but rather an academic building, with classes and professors' offices. It's been closed for a long time for renovations.

Not one of the students in those pictures will amount to anything.

I'm saying this as an alum, but Millsaps should be ashamed. I saw someone on Facebook defending it as an assignment and that makes it worse. Millsaps is a place of high learning. Professors giving first grade assignments of "expressing yourself" should be fired for that, regardless of the political viewpoints expressed.

They painted graffiti on a wall in a building that was about to undergo a total renovation. I'm shocked. Not. People offended by this are pathetic little snowflakes.

You missed the ENTIRE point, Pathetic at 12:04. It's not about paint and renovations. It is about content, and that the thoughts were encouraged by staff. There was at least one peaceful soul amongst them, quoting the Dalai Lama.
KF, would love to know the intent of the original naming of the "Christian" Center.

The older gentleman in the lower left of the first photo is Professor James E. Bowley, chairman of the Religious Studies Department. Was this some sort of assignment for his class? If you enlarge the second photo, you can see a very vulgar comment directed at Gov. Phil Bryant.

You progressives that are saying "Christian Center" is not Christian but an academic building to make this less heinous are ridiculous. The building HAS A STEEPLE. A staple of church and Christianity.

Weekly chapel services are held there.

It is true that the building also hosts some academic departments, but to say its not a Christian building is a lie.

Stay tuned for my next book: Why I left the Methodist Church.

I enlarged each photo knowing that I would spot weed, black nail polish and dildos. The professor must had all that in a paper bag.

When you let the cheerleaders paint a paper banner to hold under the goal post of the football field for the team to run through prior to the game that reads "SCREW SUWANEE", it was only a matter of time before things went this far.

12:38, connection to any organized religion or not...the comments were vapid, vulgar, and inane.

And, 12:04, saying so doesn't mean I'm offended, it means I shudder to think these mouth breathers might possibly be a fellow alum someday. The only offense I took was at you using 'not.' May Wayne's World have mercy on your soul.

It's true that the building was about to undergo renovation, but to see these classrooms defiled with vulgar graffiti, and the grinning perpetrators of the vandalism proudly posed in front of their work is beyond sickening. I spent many a happy hour in that building as an undergraduate in the 1970's, and the professors we had back then would never have countenanced something like this.
This is a black day for Millsaps.

A few of those "edgy' heifers will go more than 25 stone, one surely over 30.

Perhaps it should be made into a safe space ice cream parlor?

10:58 is right - Millsaps is struggling these days, and this can only hurt the college in fund raising and recruitment. Way to go, Bowley.

I thought the entire school was a "religious" (Methodist) institution?

I've met Bowling and can confirm that's him in the photo, bottom left.

Big League Politics has posted two more photos at the link. Both are filled with anti-Trump and anti-Bryant vulgarity.

Those are the people that make #donnerkay feel relevant, then complaining about income equality all the while touting their Ph D's in political science.

I get calls twice a year from Millsaps asking for donations, and I just sent my most recent check in last week. I have half a mind to stop payment. I'm an alumnus and have given for years, but I refuse to subsidize this.

And yes, the Christian Center is an academic building. It is no more a religious edifice than Murrah or Sullivan-Harrell. When I was there it was primarily a center for the arts, like plays and concerts. It's not a church.

Regardless, if the faculty is encouraging this behavior, I need to rethink my donation.

Nasty looking people....wonder if they know what a bar of soap looks like

This is not satirical graffiti - it is nothing less than hate being promoted by certain members of the Millsaps faculty.

Pharisees and hypocrites. I trust that the many of you who are "shocked, shocked" were not (or are not) fine specimens of good behavior at all hours of the day. The professor is an embarrassment for sure, but bad behavior by college kids is hardly news. Or maybe everybody here who is indignant graduated from BYU. I've heard plenty of stories from friends who went to college around the state, and this stuff is mild by comparison.

People, get a life. As for the prof, he might get in the same line.

Students going to student when it comes to protesting. This didn't offend me, just found it childish. Laughed at it actually.

As a Millsaps alumn (twice), this neither surprises nor upsets me. For those other Millsaps alums on here who don't seem to know it, the Christian Center also houses the campus chapel, not that it's used much anymore. There hasn't been mandatory chapel at Millsaps since before I started there in 1972. The last time I was in the chapel was probably a good 15 years ago for a memorial service for a former staff member (not faculty).

Some of you may think this is no big deal, or find it amusing, but this is a beloved campus building and many alums, from the 1950's onward, have happy memories of it and find this kind of behavior by current students hurtful and deeply disturbing. That this defacement was abetted by members of the faculty is truly disheartening.

As a Millsaps graduate, I am embarrassed by this sophomoric graffiti, but especially distressed to see the hate promoted by these professors. This is sick stuff. I assume the’ve Been fired and the students suspended.

Prof Bowley is a (physically) mature male surrounded by teen girlies. That he chose to encourage them to draw sexual pix, use profane and sexual language, and indulge in this artless little project makes me wonder. Maybe I have a dirty mind, but in my world grown men who encourage teens into sexually questionable situations are often doing it for reasons other than intellectual stimulation. I find his actions not only tasteless and pointless, but extremely inappropriate in terms of building strong identities for female students. Were I the mother of one of these girls I would be asking questions. And I doubt Prof Bowley would have the answers I'd be looking for. My next stop would be asking Millsaps to investigate both his past & his future.

I'm just not shocked. It's Millsaps. It's as a left a place of education as any. You've got people like Robert McElvaine indoctrinating folks. It's a petri dish of socialism, community activism, and upperclass spoiled kids.
It's not really a Christian school and I'm shocked they haven't changed their name considering how outraged they'd pretend to be if they knew who their namesake was.

Yeah, they're working on that, 3:46, never fear.

Even McElvaine is appalled by this, 3:46. His office was in the Christian Center for many decades.

Just a leftist school grooming replacements for "The Benghazi Beast" Hillary, "Wicked Witch of the West" Pelosi.......Ugly and bitter women!

Losers with little self-esteem, so they have to try and make everyone else as miserable and depressed as they are.

I agree with 2:48 p.m. Prof Bowley is totally out of line for aiding and abetting this type of trashy,infantile behavior. Surely he has received more than a slap on the hand. If my daughter had been part of this group, I would make sure she was totally removed from the campus and this sick, misguided professor.

I saw it all, and it was beyond disgusting. Gaping vaginas, spurting penises, the worst kind of sexual and scatological inscriptions. It was astonishing.

And it was in every classroom, and down every hallway.

Kingfish thinks it's funny. But, he has no children or skin in the game of bringing children up to adulthood. He's a viewer from the distant sidelines. Much like Tom Head is. Kingfish would join these children and sit cross-legged while singing Puff The Magic Dragon. Everybody leaves the party with a really neat package of incense. Class will be under the magnolias tomorrow. Who's bringing Kool Aid?

Some of these outraged descriptions sound a little accidentally passionate.

Future ANTIFA members? Such pathetic looking little snowflakes. The Professor (s) involved should lose their positions/tenure. Truly a PR nightmare. So much for future enrollment...

It's time that Millsaps got its crap together. It's not living up to its potential. I have no idea how Bowley is still at Millsaps or ever was in the first place. It baffles me to think that he gets to work on the same campus as Katz, Pelch, Story, Page, etc. Bowley's resume doesn't even really stack up when you compare it to the majority of the faculty, yet he won professor of the year the same academic year he was on the Ashley Madison list.

It appears while looking at the pictures that Bowley is creeping on the co-eds that don't get any attention from the male students. You would think most male teachers/professors would be scared to spend that much time around female students unless they were the coach of a girls athletic team.

To think Robert Robbins, a Millsaps grad, that is now the president of University of Arizona apparently got passed up for Pearigen?

Dear Millsaps,

Get rid of Bowley.

Lower the price it cost to stay in the dorms!

Go back to the hands off approach when it came to the frat houses.

Maybe add a graduate program or two.

Thank me later,
A graduate

2:48 is on the right track - just keep digging!

Is the person in charge of getting rid of Bowley the same one that never seemed to get rid of a certain AD despite the fact for a stretch of 10 years it appeared every student-athlete couldn't stand him? You know, the AD that ran students off from drinking at sporting events and then caused the college to look like a suit case school which caused Millsaps to hire five enrollment specialist to try and figure out what the problem was?

Bowley is the Chair of the Religious Studies Department! Way to go professor - the national media will surely have fun with this one.

I am no prude and this is embarrassing. What kind of adults would do this or think lightly of it?

Has anyone been on campus recently --that building has been completely gutted. The rooms that were "decorated" by the students aren't even there anymore, basically all that's left is the brick exterior. Would you let your 5 year old draw on a wall you were about to repaint? I would. How is this any different?

Also, some of those long-haired young people are guys. Not everyone with lovely locks is a lady. We could ask them how they get such wonderful curls, but they obviously don't know about this blog. Is that the best hairstyle for them, probably not, but we've already seen that they might not make the best life choices.

It doesn't matter that the building was going to be renovated. It was disrespectful to the integrity of the old building and to the legions of students and professors who studied and worked there all those years.

Nice.

What a great way to say "look mom, this is what I got out of all those checks you've written".

Some architects and builders will tell you that buildings have souls. Why do you think churches are deconsecrated prior to demolition or when transitioning to secular use? This building had a soul, and with its theater was an important cultural landmark in Jackson.

Continued from above...and to see it dishonored like this is heartbreaking. And infuriating.

Disrespectful.

Those who can not be trusted with small things can not be trusted with big things. I doubt anyone who participated in this will go anywhere in life.

How you do one thing is how you do all things.

To those who keep crying the building was slated for demo, does not matter, this is shameful.

Hope the renovations included a post tension slab for those big betches. Now I know why Two Sisters went out of bidness., thought I stumbled onto a State hotties blog for a moment.

The Christian Center was originally a memorial hall, dedicated to the memory of those Millsaps servicemen who had lost their lives in World War II. This was a gross desecration.

Just imagine if this same scenario were done about Obama. Heads would roll immediately... followed by national boycotts of visiting the state of MS

Who are the other 3 professors in the picture (top - left).

@7:19: We allow children to throw peanut hulls on some restaurant floors and I might allow a five year old to color on the walls if I was going to tear out the walls.

But, look Einstein, we're talking here about an adult professor of questionable mindset directing a bunch of college adolescents to express their dissatisfaction with the world by putting on vagina hats, mooning all the adults, pissing in the stairwell and generally acting out their inner disgust for all things conservative. Can you not understand he has created the next generation of window smashers and police car torchers?

If I had a child, and s/he participated in a stunt like this, and I got wind of it, you can bet your last ruble that I would yank his/her little destructive keester right out of that expensive college, stat. A year of forced volunteering in a homeless shelter or an animal rescue organization, candy-striping in a hospital for sick children or an Alzheimer's unit...anything to give these Future Weirdos of America a glimpse of what real problems look like. Or perhaps I might insist that Little Darling get a job, and hand over the paycheck each week, until every cent of that enormous Millsaps tuition was repaid.

Oh! Another modest proposal: how 'bout if the school, as a requirement for reinstatement, requires every last one of those saftig gals to don some overalls and paint over every bit of the obscene graffiti? Good exercise, and by the looks of 'em, they need it. Then after the interior is demo'ed, bring 'em back out of jail to help clear the rubble.

Well said 8:06. When I was younger, albeit high school, and I egged a classmate's home, my parents made me march my little butt over the home of the parents and stand there and apologize. When I was younger, my mother also used to use a wooden kitchen spoon to administer spankings on occasion. These were character building exercises.
Did the trick.

I am an alumnus of Millsaps and, upon seeing this article, called the office of Alumni Relations. I did this because I care about my alma mater, and despite what smug naysayers like Burke post, it IS a big deal. If that same batch of misbehaving college kids had covered the walls with racial slurs, you can bet that no one would be dismissing it as harmless while suggesting that those offended should "get a life".

I have a life, and my Millsaps years are an essential part of that life, so when a group of students are led by faculty to deface college property with obscene and vulgar graffiti, it offends me. It particularly concerns me when representatives of the college called me two weeks ago begging for money - a request which I granted. As such, I called and spoke with my contact there.

Let me say that she has heard an earful from a number of concerned alumni over the past few days and she is equally offended by this. We had a very pleasant conversation, but I made certain that she understood the gravity of this. Believe me, she and the administration understand. It's a big deal to them as well.

She indicated that the administration is preparing a statement regarding this incident and the reaction to it, and alumni will be notified as to their response. I told her that if the leadership of Millsaps submits a wishy-washy non-response, I will remember it the next time they call for donations. She assured me it would not be so.

I realize that these people do not represent Millsaps, but the hard truth is that currently they do, and as such it is on the administration's shoulders to quash that perception and present what is really happening by the people who really do represent Millsaps.

We shall see how they respond.

...I suppose these young malcontents imagine themselves as the modern-day equivalents if Martin Luther, nailing his 95 theses to the Wittenberg chapel door in 1517. Assuming, of course, that the dunderheads have ever even heard of ML, or the Protestant Reformation. That ringleader of it all, James Bowley, was probably focusing on teaching other topics, like which brand of spray paint goes farthest, and the basic spelling of obscenities...I recommend a Diet of Worms for this sorry excuse for an educator. Literally. A big plate of garden-fresh grubs, served raw.

...I suppose these young malcontents imagine themselves as the modern-day equivalents if Martin Luther, nailing his 95 theses to the Wittenberg chapel door in 1517. Assuming, of course, that the dunderheads have ever even heard of ML, or the Protestant Reformation. That ringleader of it all, James Bowley, was probably focusing on teaching other topics, like which brand of spray paint goes farthest, and the basic spelling of obscenities...I recommend a Diet of Worms for this sorry excuse for an educator. Literally. A big plate of garden-fresh grubs, served raw.

This is a big deal. It is my understanding from people currently on campus that at least one of the "painters" has openly stated that the school did NOT discipline them at all. There are currently facebook posts from those involved threatening the "snitch." If those words or depictions were drawn on say a woman's door room would it have the same reaction. Political discourse is vital, and a backbone of Millsaps. However, crude sexual depictions and profanities is not political discourse. If that is the best dialogue that these "best and brightest" can form then this is not the school I attended.
This situation has gotten out of hand, and the administration has lost control of its teachers and student body. The McRae Foundation should revoke its multi-million dollar contribution to renovate the Christian Center and leave the school with the mess they created. The school will get not one more penny from me until the professor is no longer employed there.

Thanks for that Reed.
Questions I've seen answered both ways:
- Is the Christian Center named after Christ or is it for some donor with a surname of Christian?
- Is it a place of worship/ considered a spiritual center on campus?
- Were these students of Millsaps pictured who did this?

What are the chances we'll see:
- a real punishment for that little creepy hippie prof?
- a formal apology to at least our guv?

The Millsaps Christian Center was originally constructed as a memorial honoring former students & grads who died in service in WWII. Built in 1950, it had a bronze plaque in the foyer of the building, lists names of those who, according to the plaque, "made the supreme sacrifice" for America. We can hope that Prof Bowley merely had his vandal crew scratch out these names rather than painting obscenities over them. At one time the Christian Center housed Fitzhugh Memorial Chapel & there were memorial & special services held there from time to time. But ya know - no need to respect sacred areas. The Millsaps Multi-Faith Initiative & Ecumenical group also used this area for meetings along with other campus ministry groups. But perhaps they like vagina drawings and FUs?

I’m not Reed, but I graduated from Millsaps a decade earlier. The Christian Center housed an auditorium where chapel was held weekly. It was the building that also housed the religion and philosophy departments. It was home to the Millsaps Players and theater department. Millsaps students and two professors are in the pictures. Yes, they were the graffiti artists/vandals. There will be no significant punishment for the profs. They should be fired, but won’t be. The president of Millsaps will make a half-hearted apology to the governor and the president. Alums are furious and the funds will dry up, but college administrators are cowards and afraid to do what’s right. After all a religion professor who teaches hate might have his feelings hurt.

HYOPCRITE ALERT:

Hey guys and gals. What's the big deal?

Isn't this just locker room talk condensing on walls in the form of graffiti?

Hey if our President of this great country, steeped in "family values", can talk about grabbing women by their "wussies", and still maintain his credibility with his "Christian" base, who are we to say anything about these relatively insignificant kids and their professors.

I thought it is popular to say "Group attitudes reflect leadership".

I was a student at Millsaps from 1961-63, and returned there to teach English from 1969-84. I attended compulsory chapel in the CC (except for the time I cut chapel with some friends and went to the Olde Tyme and had a bottle of dark German beer). I taught dozens of classes in the CC. It needed renovations back then, and I was happy to hear that the renovation was going to occur. I am in full support of Pres. Pearigen, who must deal with financial stresses as all presidents of Millsaps have before him, and I'm sure such stresses will continue to the end of time. I love Millsaps College, always have and always will.

What strikes me about this incident and many similar incidents around the country is that they are in large part the consequence of the 2016 presidential election between two of the worst candidates in our history. I can only hope that we are reaching the point where the polarization of right and left will begin to subside and politics will become, not civil but at least less uncivil. Until the tide turns, and I'm optimistic that it will, we are going to have to endure the gross behavior that is occurring at the extremes of left and right. "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." W. B. Yeats wrote that a long time ago; sadly it continues to be pertinent.

When I first walked into the Christian Center, I noted that it smelled just like the interiors of all the Methodist Churches I grew up in, from Iowa to Mississippi. The odor of piety? Now I'm waiting to see what it will smell like when it reopens to other generations. Millsaps is one of our state's great institutions. It will not only survive, it will prevail. (Now, where did I read that?)

I was at Millsaps in the 1980s. At that time, the Christian Center housed some faculty offices and classrooms. The center of it was an auditorium where concerts and plays were held. Millsaps Players performed there twice a semester and the Singers would hold concerts as well. Despite its name, it was not really used as a center of worship. Chapel was there, but few students availed themselves of it, to my knowledge. I don't know the origin of the name, but I don't believe it was named after a person named Christian.

These were students and some faculty according to the person with whom I spoke. I have no idea what the college will do to the students or to the professor, but I wouldn't count on an apology to the governor. More than likely we will see a statement of regret and disavowal. My hope is that it is more than just a, "tsk tsk, don't do it again!" I guess we'll see in the next day or two.

Was our president drawing a salary for teaching college students when he made his tasteless comments? Was he accompanied by a group of those college students under his supervision? Or was he operating as a reality show/tv performer businessman not responsible to any college or university? And since being hired (for a salary which he donates back to the public) has he led any groups of teens around while hurling FUs and asking them to draw vaginas? Because if he has I've missed it.

Dan Hise, my favorite professor at Millsaps. In the bookstore with my girlfriend, he approached me and complimented me on a paper I’d written for his class. I’ll never forget the look on my girlfriend’s face. God bless you Dan Hise.

I have 2 children in college. I would be very upset if they were influenced to do this by a professor at the school where they attend. This kind of junk can be taught on the streets of Jackson instead of in an academic environment where I pay over $1,000 per hour for them to attend. It is a shame this is condoned as acceptable behavior. While students may act out as they mature into adulthood, I cannot approve of the faculty's conduct in promoting this filth.

http://www.millsaps.edu/financial-aid/tuition-fees.php

I saw the extent of the graffiti --no one touched the chapel space or the plaque in the foyer.

From Millsaps website:
"The Millsaps Christian Center was originally constructed as a memorial honoring former students and graduates of Millsaps who died in service during World War II. A bronze plaque in the foyer of the building, erected in 1950, lists the names of those who, according to the plaque, "made the supreme sacrifice" for our country.

In addition to this historical distinction, the Christian Center houses the Fitzhugh Memorial Chapel, where weekly and special memorial services are held. The Millsaps Multi-Faith Initiative and Millsaps Ecumenical Community often reserve the chapel for meetings or special speakers, and other campus ministry groups host services there as well.

The Christian Center is also home to the theatre, religious studies, philosophy, history, and classical studies departments."

How any professor or adult (which some consider college students to be) who participated in this is beyond an explanation

The offended really need to quit being ridiculous. Those are just WORDS. Knowing the full context of the 'exercise' might be helpful. In any case, Millsaps is an elite college - not a preschool or a community college. People at elite institutions, don't get prissy over such trivialities.

Ah, but 3:45 p.m., on which side are the "best," and on which are the "worst"? I fear that there cannot be agreement on that. "Passionate intensity" is all over the place these days, from the leftie loons to the rabid right...and I am afraid I do not share your optimism that the numbskull extremists will ever be in accord. "And we are here as on a darkling plain, where ignorant armies clash by night."

There are two professors in the photo. Jason Rosenberg is in the top left.

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMrGyxaijQtfkpuNcHEf6LGE95bhEpihsM3IEWeKCuWxS2ysjhAvKQtCdtdXNgckg?key=LW5haEdNdlFZbmZhOXlodTlWd3FlTXFEYnFRTGNn

"In the past few days, additional information has come to light, including photographs that were, I believe, not known to those conducting the investigations last spring. In addition to identifying individuals involved, the photographs reveal that the graffiti on the walls of the Christian Center expanded and became more vulgar and demeaning over the course of several days. Some of the individuals in the early photographs were, I’m told, not involved or aware of the progressively shameful words and depictions painted on the walls of the building."

-President Pearigen

Honestly, this is the epitome of inflammatory journalism with no basis in fact. How do we know that the students in the photos were involved in the painting? As a recent graduate, I know that the Christian center lounge (room with the eggs painted) was used as a community space for a number of groups, many of which continued to meet there in the days following the incident. Who’s to say these photos weren’t taken to commemorate year-end meetings/ last meetings in the christian center before it was gutted?

Typical lib at 5:16 am, ignores the link, and the evidence, at 12:51 am.

Awoke this morning thinking about 'safe spaces.' It appears Millsaps has made a decision to instead provide 'unsafe spaces' - for conservatives. I can only imagine what a student, already in the political minority, feels walking into, or past, or even near a revered old campus bldg knowing that inside his fellow-students have painted and scrawled their hatred. And doubling that feeling is knowledge such actions were supported by and giggled over by a respected professor. That is the very means of intimidation all 'mouth-breathers' use to stifle thoughts they don't like. Millsaps, by allowing a professor who was involved in such a thing to remain, sent a clear message that it was no big deal. Perhaps administrators do think it's a sign of being an 'elite school.' If a school wants only one train of political thought running through it a good way to insure that is to allow filthy abuse of the 'other side' - regardless of which side. We conservatives naturally think if Obama insults had been painted it would have been cleaned up promptly and action for 'racism' taken. Or perhaps it was just a busy April and no one had time to find a solution. Hopefully, for all the fuss now a solution will be found. Otherwise I cannot imagine sending a child to a school where their developing thoughts on politics will be squashed and stomped on by a bunch of laughing professors who enjoy making graffiti statements with the girls. Let those who think this is okay display their indifference. We know college kids aren't so delicate these days. But is it the hope of a school like Millsaps that they can produce crasser, cruder, and nastier adults - or are they actually trying to elevate society. I believe their actions in solving this will tell us.

Parents are now voting with their checkbook. If small schools like Milsaps want to survive, they better start proving the education and experience they provide are worth your hard earned dollars. Look what happened to Mizzou after the "we need some muscle over here" fiasco. Enrollment dropped 35%. If Milsaps doesn't think that can happen to them, they are living in the dark ages. Parents aren't going to stand for it. Maybe liberal parents whose students received some nice grants or scholarships will but conservatives, even those with scholarships, won't want their children in that environment, regardless of the education offered.

To the author of the 7:32 AM comment:

I wrote a comment at 5:16 AM because I wake up at 4:30 AM every morning to begin working. I am not quite sure what you mean in your comment– perhaps that I have a strong work ethic? Nonetheless, your ill-executed ad hominem attack at my sleep schedule was wholly ineffective.

Additionally, I did read the "article" (blog post, truly), and I do not appreciate your accusing me of the contrary. If you could kindly point me to actual evidence, though, I would be very grateful (actual evidence meaning fact-checked sources, credible quotes, etc.). Thank you!

"Will not only ENDURE . . ."

9:00, all we need to know is that there are "fine people on both sides," and there are awful people on both sides. There is much evidence to support your grim view of things. I have had a number of grim views myself, but they passed. Personally, I figure that if I could go on living and caring about things after the events of 1968, then I will be all right for the few years I have left. We have always had crisis politics in the U. S. First the crisis, then our best selves come out from wherever they have gone. And yes, those best selves soon go glimmering away to come again another day. Let's hope for a "return to normalcy," but with someone a tad better than Warren Gamaliel Harding.

As for you, "Jim M," it pleases me no end to find out that I helped a fellow American impress a member of the opposite sex. And thank you for your kind remarks. You know, we could use a few more kind remarks here in Kingfish land.

Douche bags. That is all that comes to mind.

The supporters of this mess are entirely disingenuous. In remembrance of an earlier post, if the graffiti writers had painted "F--- Hillary" and "Screw Obama" not only would these people be outraged, CNN and MSNBC would be all over campus and the WaPost and NY Times would be demanding reactions from the White House.

@2:48pm. His past? Ashley Madison.

I too am a not so proud graduate of Millsaps in the 90's. I'm fine with kids being kids and painting graffiti (which is rarely ever tasteful because what would be the point of doing that).

I do think Millsaps should fire any faculty involved in this because, as faculty, they should be held to a higher standard of leadership. I personally do not like or agree with a lot of the graffiti that I could make out, but I'm not too worked up over it in a building set for demolition.

Millsaps quit getting any of my money a few years back when they decided to close the Computer Science department and stop offering degrees in it. The reason, I was told, was that the salaries for CS professors were higher than those in other departments. Yeah, guess what, that's probably because CS is in demand and those professors can get a better paying job somewhere if they need to. Not to worry though, Millsaps does still offer a Classical Studies Major with a concentration in Latin or biblical languages or you can Major in Spanish, so at least Keifer's will not have to worry about running out of Millsaps grads to wait tables any time soon.

According to Millsaps' own website, it now costs $56K a year for an undergrad, so the people in those photos should have their quarter million dollar educations paid off in just five or six life times. That seems like a great plan. Way to go Mudflaps.

Students were not punished. Admitted by the Dean during a meeting because the person who was originally tasked with handling the original situation is not longer with the College.

If the administration did not know the extent of the vandalism, why did Maintenance spend three days painting over it before the Board toured the building for the last time?

Why is a professor who dropped the f-bomb during a speach to incoming freshmen with a powerpoint backdrop of penis and vagania still the chair of the religion department?

Why did the same professor buy the paint used in the assigned exercise for students to express themselves?

Oh, buy the way, there are four Millsaps professors in the pictures.

And no, this is not gossip or hearsay. People need to investigate further. And no, don't ask a staff member about this. If we speak out, we are in fear of our jobs. After all, we don't have tenure.

All of the money that is being taken back from donations should go towards the student loans for whoever was brave enough to get this story out. He’s probably got a HUGE target on his back

to the poster above saying Millsaps is elite--average entering ACT score is 25-with about 700 students. Mississippi College has a 24 and has 5000 students. Is MC an 'elite' school also? costs half as much...

elite is Vanderbilt. entering average ACT 34. 12k students.

Make the stupid profs turn in their hush puppies on the way out. The way the school has mishandled the entire "investigation" is embarrassing. This will hurt the school in the only way it is honestly concerned about, i.e., money. Rhodes and Sewanee traditionally look down on Millsaps for a reason. Quite a concentration of unattractive girls, too. The issue is the profs encouraging the activity, not the building.

As a geriatric alumnus, I am in disbelief that this could have happened at Millsaps College. I am sure Homer Ellis Finger is rolling over in his grave. The college obviously needs a change in leadership. Change is clearly needed in the religion program (and no, do not wait until the end of the semester). Dr. Bowley may be very intelligent, but he appears to be seriously lacking in judgement and character. Change is also needed at the top. Instead of dealing with this in a timely and appropriate fashion, the president tried to cover it up. He is also less than candid when he says he did not see all of the writing on the wall. Perhaps there will be some future writing on the wall that he will have to attend to. I am meeting with my attorney tomorrow to change my will. I no longer want my name associated with this institution

These professors don't wear Hush Puppies, they wear sandals. And actually, the majority of Millsaps undergraduate women are quite good looking, and always have been. I know it's not reflected in those photographs, but there it is.

To Jim M:

I also will never forget.... standing near the Student Union when Dan Hise told me my paper was “beautiful.” God bless Dan Hise, indeed.