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Trouble in Ypsilanti For those paying attention, there's been a rush of on-line activity recently from folks connected to Ave Maria University. In late March, of course, there was the fiasco with the new cathedral plans (yes, JPawn, I know you think it'd be cool to have a church visible from space). Now there's apparently some backlash against millionare financier Tom Monaghan's decision to transplant the college to Florida, and the parents of some of the students have started their own website in protest. To make matters worse, there are rumours that Monaghan is planning on merging AMU with a local pseudo-Catholic college in a financial maneuver, which he apparently has a history of doing. One never really knows who to believe here, especially when Michael Rose is involved, but it is sad to see a beautifully-conceived Catholic institution descend into muck-racking and name-calling. (Note that the canonist-blogger Ed Peters, who has a kid at AVU and is a bit riled up, is quoted in Rose's article.) (With help from the indomitable Jimmy Akin.) # posted by Jamie : 8:18 AM |
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