JENNINGS MUST GO: LINCOLN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS WEARING GAGS TO DEMONSTRATE CENSORSHIP

By Gloria Dulan-Wilson

Hello All:

LU Students wear tape over their mouths after being forbidden to hold their own vote of no confidence in Robert Jennings the ersatz "president" of Lincoln University

A sad day indeed at Lincoln University - my Alma Mater which celebrated her 160th anniversary this year - is marred by an ersatz "president" who has been more of a disaster in his short 2 years on the campus than all the school has had to go through in its entire history.

Robert Jennings has been dubbed the Worst President Ever - and rightly so, since most of what he's actually "accomplished" has been to the detriment of the school.  And, while the Board of Trustees issued a statement that he has fulfilled his contractual agreement with the school - one wonders whether that was a contract more in the line of a hit man, and the "contract" one to destroy the school as opposed to remedying any problems.  Indeed, if Jennings has completed any agreed upon "contract" it's more like the operation was a success, but the patient is dying.

And while some of the alumni state that the massive loss of faculty, administrators and students is collateral damage (shades of 911!!!), we, the AALU are more concerned with what happens if the soul of the school is sacrificed for some perceived gain.  A gain, by the way, that has yet to be proven in tangible form.

Time to cut bait and move on - time to come out of a "CYA" posture and admit this was an egregious error, and that there are better, more positive, supportive, professional, spiritual, cultural, creative, successful, beneficial candidates that can do much more for Lincoln than push us to the brink of disaster under the guise of "fiscal responsibility."  

As Melissa Harris-Perry stated so succinctly, "he has engendered an atmosphere of hostility on the campus" by his remarks and his demeanor, and  lack of understanding and professionalism. 

The hearts, minds, souls of our students - and the ancestors who walked these hallowed halls before them, are being violated each and every day he remains in their midst.  

JENNINGS MUST GO NOW!
 

STAY BLESSED &

ECLECTICALLY BLACK

Gloria Dulan-Wilson

LU '67

HAIL! HAIL! LINCOLN!!!