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Tue Mar-03-09 10:41 PM
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Is it wrong to heckle the Valparaiso basketball team for almost being funded by the KKK? |
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Tue Mar-03-09 10:56 PM
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1. Maybe they just wanted a good deal on table linen? |
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Wed Mar-04-09 12:30 AM
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2. Could be, I think I'd just fold if that would happen |
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Wed Mar-04-09 12:51 AM
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NO!!!!. Although you may want to ask about a deal on bed sheets. Word on the street is the KKK gets them wholesale. Hey, tough times sometimes require tough decisions.
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Wed Mar-04-09 01:07 AM
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4. Valparaiso? KKK? What's the connection? |
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I thought Valparaiso was in Chile...
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Wed Mar-04-09 12:09 PM
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Wed Mar-04-09 06:25 AM
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5. WTF are you talking about? |
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Wed Mar-04-09 12:06 PM
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8. That's only because the Lutherans offered a slightly bigger bid in the 1920's |
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Wed Mar-04-09 06:23 PM
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Valpo is my alma mater.
So the KKK wanted the land? They didn't get it.
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Wed Mar-04-09 08:49 AM
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6. Somewhere, Bryce Drew just shed a tear. |
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You need to back up your accusations with some facts.
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Wed Mar-04-09 12:08 PM
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Wed Mar-04-09 01:36 PM
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11. Wow! The 1920s Klan was like 2000s Republicans. |
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In the 1920s, the Klan was a large mainstream organization with a veneer of respectability and patriotism that somewhat masked its hatred of foreigners, African-Americans, Jews and Catholics. Evans was lured by the relatively benign public face of the KKK, and naively believing the Klan would operate a standard university, entered into negotiations and tentatively agreed to the sale of VU for $340,000 and a million dollar endowment fund. VU faculty opposed the sale and national publications like The New Republic and New York Call put VU in an unwelcome spotlight, mercilessly lampooning the idea of a Klan University. Fortunately, the KKK failed to produce any money, and Evans and the board of trustees later repudiated any connection to the Klan.
"naively believing the Klan would operate a standard university" = congressional Democrats naively believing that modern day Republicans would operate a standard (war/election/prison/CIA/FBI/regulatory agencies/etc.)
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