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It is incredibly ironic
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It is incredibly ironic


Nov 28, 2012, 7:22 AM

that Clemson is a party to a conference that denies admission to schools based on sheer snobbery, when snobbery on SCar's part was one of the driving forces behind founding Clemson. Ben Tillman founded Clemson as an alternative to what he called that "bastion of snobbery on the hill." The reason Clemson began as military school was so all students would be the equal when they came to Clemson. Whether you were the poorest farm boy, or the son of an aristocrat, you started off as a rat. But now, we are a party to perpetuating the very snobbery our founder abhored so much.

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Re: It is incredibly ironic


Nov 28, 2012, 7:33 AM

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Re: It is incredibly ironic


Nov 28, 2012, 7:54 AM

You are so right.

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I see where you are coming from, but lots of things have


Nov 28, 2012, 8:27 AM

changed about Clemson since its founding, and that doesn't mean that all of the changes are automatically bad. I think we would all agree that allowing af. americans and women to go to Clemson was a good move, even though that was not contemplated by our founder.

You can certainly make a cogent point that raising entrance standards at Clemson, effectively reducing the number of in-state applicants accepted, is a bad thing for our school and our state, but I don't think they are bad things simply because they stray from the initial vision of the founders.

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I would argue that the addition of women and minorities


Nov 28, 2012, 4:53 PM

was consistent with the founder's proinciple of inclusiveness and support of the common citizen.

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Re: I would argue that the addition of women and minorities


Nov 28, 2012, 5:05 PM

We must tred lightly here, our principal founder thought that women and minorities should be in the house or in the field.

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