These people are so besotted with notions of "diversity" that they forget where they live and who they are. The Goshen College Board of Directors is asking the president to seek an alternative to playing the national anthem before sporting events: The Board took the action during its regular meeting, June 3-4, and today released a Decision Statement, which is available at www.goshen.edu/anthem. The Board expressed a strong commitment to advancing with President Brenneman the vision for Goshen College to be an influential leader in liberal arts education with a growing capacity to serve a theologically, politically, racially and ethnically diverse constituency both within and beyond the Mennonite church. The Board concluded that continuing to play the national anthem compromised the ability of college constituents to advance the vision together. "The Board has a diversity of views on this issue as reflected throughout the process of considering the anthem," said Rick Stiffney of...(Read Full Post)