Harvard, Colgate Support Students at AHI Kick-Off
Harvard and Colgate will contribute thousands of dollars each to support the participation of their students at the AHI kick-off colloquium, “Liberty and Slavery: The Civil War between Gerrit Smith and George Fitzhugh.” “The AHI compliments the administrations of both Harvard and Colgate for their generous investment in the colloquim and in their students,” said Robert Paquette, the conference organizer. “Professors John Stauffer (Harvard) and Pete Banner-Haley (Colgate) received enthusiastic responses to their requests for funding from university officials. Although the administration of Hamilton College has turned down a formal request to support the presence of an undergraduate class of its students at the colloquium, the AHI remains confident that funding for their participation will be obtained from other sources.” (From www.theahi.org News & Events)
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A generous contribution from a Hamilton College alumnus will support the presence of 17 Hamilton College undergraduates at the colloquium.
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Check out the program here:
http://www.theahi.org/news-events/2008/2/10/invitation-to-ahi-inaugural-april-10-12.html
Maybe some of the administration should take Histo Philo and study reason!!!!..Let's get the money for these kids outside the college...The founders of the AHI must be beside themselves...
I guess some student activities are more equal than others!!!..
Colgate sends a class of students and supports them.
Hamilton sends a class of students and won't support its own.
The college made its position clear when it backed out of the deal to have the AHC on campus, even afer it was funded. No surprise here.
Hamilton hates this kind of stuff. They'd rather (and do) pay buckets of money for fraudulently hollow diversity programs or other fashionably 'progressive' programming ad nauseum...and the preference is enforced in venal manner.
Merit and scholarship are out. Follow the money, if you can, and you'll get the drift.
RAE - get with the program, would you?
On behalf of all of us involved with the AHI warm thanks for taking the initiative to help our own students attend the colloquium..I am sure you will hear from the founders as well-particularly Doug Ambrose whose class will participate...
From the time Hamilton rejected the AHC we have been working hard to stabilize and fund our operations..We have a terrific, supportive board and are optimistic about our future..Your contribution--along with those of many others--is a significant factor in making our initial colloquium and the programs that will follow successful for all the participants..
Please contact the Assistant Treasurer at ahi@theahi.org for any further information regarding your contribution and our operations.
Thanks again--very much...
I guess this issue(freedom/slavery/black/white/North/South/economics/history) isn't "diverse" enough to warrant Hamilton's support AND it is based on one of Hamilton's most famous alumni of the period. Just shows where their priorities are at - on to the Cultural Center for some more group therapy! There is definitely a bodily disorder at Hamilton worthy of treatment.
It can't look good for Harvard and Colgate to support an event that Hamilton's administration would not.
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