Dr. Evans: I am ashamed – ashamed!!! – that Dr. Crenshaw won the student-nominated and faculty-elected Younts Excellence in Teaching award this year (the same award that Dr. Wingate won several years ago), and I am outraged – outraged – that you would raise your hands in polite, though quiet, applause to celebrate his achievement.
How dare you!
Knowing full well how strongly this man disagrees with you and the coup you’ve helped orchestrate at Erskine, you did politely and sincerely congratulate this man for his accomplishment, however misplaced his opinions might be?!
You should have sat down in your chair, folded your arms across your chest, and refrained from clapping one iota.
You too, Rev. Paul Patrick. I’m ashamed for you! Why politely congratulate this man, somebody you’ve been called to minister to and support? Why politely clap your hands on his behalf? Think how sophisticated you would have appeared if you had simply sat down and done nothing – everybody would have noticed you just like the Pharisee saying his prayers on the street corner.
I only wish the rumor I heard was true – that Evans and Patrick did sit down and kept their hands silent in protest. Oh were the rumor true and Evans and Patrick publicly thumbed their noses against this man!
Such an act seems atrocious coming from the Bible department and the Campus minister, but it is not. “Look! A Comet!”
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