Ole Miss investiture services shows universities new leader is ready for the school to become the state's premier "LIBERAL" arts college.

Although I was not in attendance, the word is that Dan Jones official investiture service and the events surrounding it were very left leaning in tone. That lean included a speech by Jones that returned to diversity time and again, and a need to expand new efforts (read programs) to help poor and underpriviledged attend Ole Miss. I thought we already had that in the Pell Grant program. One that, incidentally, was just recently expanded upon by government legislation that took over the entire student loan system and signed by President Obama. If a person wants a quality education, the resources are there to get it.

Reportedly the speech was filled with references to more open borders, and addressing "disparities." That wonderful of code words that really means redistribution. Don't tell me about the "have's" and "have nots" without attempting to address the "work's" and "work not's", the "try's" and "try not's", and the "do's" and the "do not's." There should be diversity in the workplace. But, the first requirement is that a person be qualified to do the job, and actually want to work.

The private prayer service at Paris-Yates Chapel was also reportedly a "diverse" event, allowing for a Muslim chant in edition to Christian prayers. My, how far we have come . . . or fallen?

I do not care today, tomorrow or ever to be so all inclusive that we forget the Muslim Religion is based on the Koran that teaches those who do not agree with it must die. Period.


From NEMS 360:

OXFORD - Dan Jones quoted Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. He spoke about his own experiences in China, Russia and Iran. And he acknowledged the presence of the North Korean ambassador to the United Nations, who was among the many guests at Friday's ceremony.

As Jones stood at the lectern in the Gertrude C. Ford Center at his investiture as the University of Mississippi's 16th Chancellor in 162 years, he spoke about a vision that reached far beyond Oxford.

"We are a public university in Mississippi and we need to focus on the needs around us, but we also need to focus on what the needs of our world are," Jones said after delivering his speech.

Reflecting the state of the current economy, the ceremony was restrained in pomp. While Jones spoke on stage, all the lights in the building were dimmed and a single spotlight shone on the university's new leader. A bouquet of flowers sat on the floor in front of him.

"We should be less concerned about the general state of the economy than about the growing disparity between those who have and those who have not," Jones said during his speech.

"And I need not remind this audience that to see some of the starkest examples of these disparities, we need only look at our own doorstep."

Among the guests at the ceremony were U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, U.S. Rep. Travis Childers, former Govs. William Winter and Ronnie Musgrove, current Gov. Haley Barbour and the university's previous chancellor, Robert Khayat.