You surely know the corporate joke about asking the boss, "When do you want it done?" The boss answers, "Yesterday."
The College of DuPage came up with a comical approach to that old joke. When Ed Storke, the Associate Dean of Liberal Arts, asked the college president Dr. Michael Murphy when he wanted the anti-atheist class canceled, Dr. Murphy must have said, "Last week."
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The Chicago Sun-Times carried a long, sixteen-paragraph story about the anti-atheist class controversy, and my efforts to get the class canceled. The story filled up fully half of Page 5 of today's newspaper, complete with a photo of yours truly. The full text also appeared in the online edition of today's Sun-Times. I have also provided a back-up link to the online story, so if you read today's Liberal News and Commentary after the Sun-Times has deleted their link to the story, you can still see a "library/archive" copy of the story.
In the Sun-Times story, COD officials claim that I had nothing, whatsoever, to do with their decision to withdraw the class. They supposedly made the decision to cancel the class last week.
Sure, they did! After all, colleges start thinking, six to eighteen months in advance, about what classes are to be offered in an upcoming semester. Then, after all the approvals are in, it gets printed in the catalog and posted on the internet. Surely, it was "just a coincidence" that the class got canceled one day after I started waving a red flag and one day before I was going to make a presentation to the Board of Trustees. Have you ever heard of government doing anything else that quickly? Imagine the panic when the president spoke to the dean.
President Murphy: "Sherman's coming to the meeting, tomorrow night, and now the newspapers are all calling. We've gotta do something fast to stop him from coming here! The last thing any government official ever wants to do is deal with Rob Sherman!"
Dean Storke: "Why's that, boss?"
Murphy: "He never leaves us any wiggle room. He always presents his arguments in such a way that there never are any cracks in his logic to slip through through.
Dean Storke: "What should we do, boss?"
Murphy: "Quick! Cancel the class, but tell the newspaper boys that we were going to cancel it on our own, all along. Tell them Sherman had nothing to do with it."
Storke: "How are we going to convince them of that one?"
Murphy: "Tell them that we were going to cancel the class last week. Yeah, that's it! We were going to cancel the class last week. See if they'll fall for that one."
Storke: "Gotcha, boss."
The important thing is that the "Finding Fault with Atheists" class has been revoked, even though college officials appear to have committed a St. Valentine's Day Massacre of the truth.
A big thank you goes out to the Sun-Times for their coverage.
The Daily Herald ran two separate stories about the controversy in today's edition. Their stories contained the same trusting manner, that the college must have canceled the class last year simply because their spokesman says so.
Here is the online version of the Daily Herald story. Here is a back-up link to the online edition. Here is an image of the newsprint edition, which had two separate stories.
A big thank you goes out to the Daily Herald for their coverage.
The Chicago Tribune story about the controversy ran all of three sentences, and was buried in the middle of a story about Guatemala.
Thank you, Tribune, for your coverage, I suppose.
They can say that I had nothing to do with it, but you and I don't believe everything we are told by government officials, do we?
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