The American Spectator

p> CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE br> RE: Robert B. Archibald’s letter under “Petitions vs. Loyalty Oaths” in Reader Mail’s Cross Purposes : /p>

Professor Robert B. Archibald is being disingenuous at best when he states that “The crux of the matter then is: will faculty who did not sign the petition be treated differently from faculty who did sign the petition? The answer to this question is NO.” Really? How does he know that?

Further, it appears that Professor Archibald may be bucking for a promotion by trying to impress President Gene Nichol with his loyalty. Archibald was once the Acting Dean of the Economics Department at William and Mary.

Archibald also states that “The plain fact of the matter is that a clear majority of William and Mary faculty support the policy.” I do not believe that statement is the truth and invite Archibald to prove it.

If Archibald thinks that “the new policy [not displaying the Bruton Cross in the Wren Chapel] is appropriate for a state-supported institution,” then he is part of the effort to bastardize the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, as are Gene Nichol and his law professor wife Betty Glenn George (both longtime ACLU activists).

p>It is a disgrace that a professor of economics (Archibald) and two law professors (Nichol and George) have so little understanding of the “separation clause” of the United br> States Constitution. It appears that all three need remedial indoctrination in the fundamentals of the American legal system. They certainly are not behaving like scholars. br> — E Joseph West, CFA br> Falls Church, Virginia