Erskine College

Erskine College

Mission Statement….. Christian Commitment and Excellence in Learning

Does anyone know what this means?

Nestled in the small town of Due West, SC, Erskine college at first glance gives one the thoughts of a quiet small college with all of the peacefulness and tranquility of a utopia.
You hear the conversations that whisper into one’s head as they walk along the paths that lead from building to building while listening to the spill that is memorized by the tour guide selling the prospective student and the parents on enrolling the student in Erskine College.
Well folks it works. Its not until later that you learn that behind those walls of the quant buildings are lurking two of the professors who are checking out all of the females that are going to enroll and before the female student even gets her feet on the ground (so to speak).
Tony Santella and Mickey Conway are devising ways to get the student off campus for a little R and R that has nothing to do with the subjects that are taught in the class rooms
They are like two copperheads lurking in the bushes waiting to strike.
Erskine is unlike the college’s sister college, Presbyterian College located in Clinton, SC.
Erskine students are allowed to drink at any age just as long as the administration doesn’t see it.
The experience I had with this so called Christian College is that I wanted my family member to go to a college where they had a Christian atmosphere along with the regular academic subjects and taught good Christian values.
The shock I was in for was beyond belief. First Tony Santella was advertised as the teacher of the year at Launder University and had come over to Erskine to teach.
Upon investigating Mr. Santella, I learned from Launder University that Mr. Santella was never, I repeat NEVER recognized for anything.
As time went on Mr. Santella started trying to get my family member off campus, first it was bowling and when she refused to take part in this Mr. Santell devised another scheme, he decided to have a contest between the students.
The contest was to split the class into two parts and he sent half of the class to one coffee shop in Abbeville and the other half of the class to another coffee shop in Abbeville.
The two coffee shops we to compete in order to see who could sell the most coffee.
This was supposed to be a lesson in Sales Management, as the class was titled.
The member of my family asked Mr. Santell what should she do to try to sell coffee, when Mr. Santella replied that she should stand on the corner and do whatever it takes to sell the coffee.
I ask you, what does this have to do with sales management?
When someone comes into a Duncan Donut shop does anyone really have to persuade them to buy coffee?
When my family member refused to take part in this craziness she had to write a paper.
When she received her final grade she received an A in the class. This is academic fraud because she learned absolutely nothing about Sales Management at a very high cost.
She received an A and should have received an F and the teacher should have been fired.
Is this the kind of College you want your Daughter to attend?
My family member attended Summer College at Erskine, where she had an adjunct professor named Mickey Conway from Clemson University. Mr. Conway taught at Erskine in the summer.
Mr. Conway immediately started trying to date my family member.
She got to the point of being scared to go to Erskine and I was beginning to be afraid for her, so I took the appropriate steps, I notified Dr. Ruble, the president of Erskine, and I informed him of what was taking place, he did nothing.
I then notified Dr. Don Weatherman the Dean of Academics at Erskine and relayed the same information, he did nothing. I finally called Guy Smith the Chairman of the board of trustees and he did nothing.
I was in shock; the complete ignoring of the situation by the very people that are supposed to protect the students was condoning this kind of conduct from two of their professors.
She wanted to quit going to Erskine College out of fear for her safety.
I made a call to Clemson and informed them of what was taking place and they gave it their undivided attention. But if it hadn’t been for the Chief of Police whom I called when I was at my wits end and she was on the verge of dropping out of college that this good man and police officer gave us his reassurance that she would be safe along with any one else that came into the town of Due West.
This caring man is Chief James Smith, whom we will always be grateful to.
Mickey Conway was supposed to teach every day and he never taught on Fridays, not a single Friday and he was absent the entire last week of school, yet the students were charged the full price as though he were in the class room teaching even though he was absent for more than 20% of the class meetings.
Well, so much for excellence in education.

Now lets look at Christian commitment.

In the 2007 year book one of the Christian students was sitting in another students lap and he was holding a gun and she was covered by nothing more than 3 handkerchiefs
The caption read “Bond Girl”. I ask you what Christian Administration would allow this in a year book much less condone it?
Along with the almost NAKED student through the pages of the year book you will see men dressed as women and students holding wine bottles.
I ask you just who were they praying to, certainly not Jesus Christ, and certainly not the Christ I preached about for 32 years.
Well, so much for the mission statement of Erskine College.
Is this the College of your choice to send you sons and daughters?
It is my opinion that Erskine Colleges is allowing the students to break local and state laws by allowing underage students to drink alcohol and to advertise for poker players on the Erskine web site and to Vandalize local businesses by removing their benches they have for people to sit on outside the stores.