WELL Folks Erskine College, under the esteem leadership of Randy Ruble, has established another step in showing just what the College mission statement really means.
Randy Ruble has struck once again in the name of Christian Commitment.
Folks you gotta love this one: Along with auctioning off dates and having car washes with the young men wearing Speedos to raise money for the college; now Dr. Randy is pulling the rug from under long time employees in the housekeeping department.
Dr. Randy has just entered the College into a contract with Aramark, a giant in ancillary services of all types. What has Randy done to give the housekeeping department the security they once enjoyed at the small College located in Due West, SC? Randy jerked the security rug from under long time employees of the College. They went from being part of the Erskine family to numbers on the employee sheet of Aramark.
No longer will the housekeepers have the feeling that they belong to a caring college family. No longer will they have the feeling of the security they once felt while they were employees of Erskine College. Now they are going through mixed feelings of being thrown away to feelings of despair and feeling very insecure, thanks to Randy. The housekeepers went from happiness to great despair all in the name of Christianity.
By the way Randy, just what God do you and the College serve? Is there a new God that I have not heard about, is this a new-age God? What has happened to the teachings of the God that I have always heard of his name as having been, and will always be, the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the same God as yesterday, today and forever (Hebrews 13-8)?
Now let’s add this up and try to figure out just what a Christian College is. Is this where you want you sons and daughters to attend school?
Your daughter may be auctioned off to date a young man she has never met. Your sons may be washing cars wearing Speedos. Your daughter may end up 90% naked sitting in a young man’s lap while he is holding a gun. How about a professor dating the students? All of this is going on in the name of Christian Commitment and Excellence in Learning. Is all of this being done with the board of trustee’s approval? Now that’s a very good question. Is this a Christian atmosphere or a scene from an adult movie?
My deepest condolences to the housekeepers and my sympathy to the parents that want their kids safe and thinking their kids are in a Christian atmosphere, and my admiration to the chief of Police of Due West for doing his best to keep all of the citizens of Due West safe.
Keep up the Christian work Randy. Lets not forget that the College charges the students a fee to go to church and fines them if they do not attend church. I am sorry I cannot reference this anywhere in any Bible.
It is my personal opinion that Randy Ruble does in fact want to serve God, but only in an advisory capacity.
Until next time, I remain a close observer of the joke of Erskine College.
Go Randy.
Bobby Caldwell
Friday, March 14, 2008
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Read below and tell me if this is a joke
V. Erskine's Purpose
The purpose of Erskine College should be to provide sound training in a campus environment where evangelical Christian influence is supreme and pervasive. The role of the church-sponsored college is the distinctive one of relating academic disciplines to the Christian realities of faith and responsible selfhood.At the same time, there must be intellectual stimulation and open dialogue; and creative individualism should be fostered. The basic premise of education ought to be that the goals of education are to open the mind and the heart to truth, to teach one to think Biblically and objectively and to give direction to daily life. "In Thy light shall we see light."As an arm of the Church, Erskine College exists to enlarge and help sustain the mission of the Church. It exists, primarily, for the benefit of its students. Their interests must be paramount and their individual and collective needs a matter of continuing concern. Erskine's goal must be to afford them the opportunity and encouragement to integrate knowledge and moral values in the development of the highest and best use of their abilities. A primary objective of the College should be to guide the student into the development of a mature faith within a Christian system of values which defines contemporary pressures in their true light and which is staunchly resistant to the impersonality and relativism of our time. Erskine's ultimate objective for every student must be the gaining of an understanding of the truth that "man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever."
The purpose of Erskine College should be to provide sound training in a campus environment where evangelical Christian influence is supreme and pervasive. The role of the church-sponsored college is the distinctive one of relating academic disciplines to the Christian realities of faith and responsible selfhood.At the same time, there must be intellectual stimulation and open dialogue; and creative individualism should be fostered. The basic premise of education ought to be that the goals of education are to open the mind and the heart to truth, to teach one to think Biblically and objectively and to give direction to daily life. "In Thy light shall we see light."As an arm of the Church, Erskine College exists to enlarge and help sustain the mission of the Church. It exists, primarily, for the benefit of its students. Their interests must be paramount and their individual and collective needs a matter of continuing concern. Erskine's goal must be to afford them the opportunity and encouragement to integrate knowledge and moral values in the development of the highest and best use of their abilities. A primary objective of the College should be to guide the student into the development of a mature faith within a Christian system of values which defines contemporary pressures in their true light and which is staunchly resistant to the impersonality and relativism of our time. Erskine's ultimate objective for every student must be the gaining of an understanding of the truth that "man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever."
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