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Re: Board of Trustees

Post by NothingMeaningful » Sun Jan 10, 2021 7:20 am

Sundayamqb wrote: Sat Jan 09, 2021 10:46 pm FWIW ... Packer opposed slavery, according to this:

https://www.lehigh.edu/~inspc/asa_packe ... packer.pdf

Thus, maybe his statue (is there one on campus?) might be around a while longer.
It appears very little is known about his views. I did find this:

"While a lawmaker in Washington, Packer spoke little for the record, making no speeches from the House floor in all four years. But oddly for a man who would later distinguish himself as a humanitarian, he supported a pro-slavery measure. He was among four of the state's 25 House members to back a bill that would let Kansas and Nebraska residents decide whether they could own slaves. "

https://www.mcall.com/all-bethsteel-c2p2-story.html

Maybe he was just a "states' rights" kind of guy.


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Re: Board of Trustees

Post by LU808 » Sun Jan 10, 2021 3:45 pm

NothingMeaningful wrote: Sun Jan 10, 2021 7:20 am
Sundayamqb wrote: Sat Jan 09, 2021 10:46 pm FWIW ... Packer opposed slavery, according to this:

https://www.lehigh.edu/~inspc/asa_packe ... packer.pdf

Thus, maybe his statue (is there one on campus?) might be around a while longer.
It appears very little is known about his views. I did find this:

"While a lawmaker in Washington, Packer spoke little for the record, making no speeches from the House floor in all four years. But oddly for a man who would later distinguish himself as a humanitarian, he supported a pro-slavery measure. He was among four of the state's 25 House members to back a bill that would let Kansas and Nebraska residents decide whether they could own slaves. "

https://www.mcall.com/all-bethsteel-c2p2-story.html

Maybe he was just a "states' rights" kind of guy.
Or the kind of guy that gets canceled in today's America.
I'm done here.
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Re: Board of Trustees

Post by Mountain Hawk » Sun Jan 10, 2021 4:06 pm

HFO wrote: Sat Jan 09, 2021 2:03 pm Well I'm a retire orthopedic surgeon, worth +$10s of million. Lehigh will never see a cent of mine while Simon is there and it stays on the liberal dipshit course.

Call me old fashioned, but when my uncles entered Lehigh in early 1900s and I in 1940s, it was bastion of conservatism and a place for industrialist to train. 25% of my graduating class went onto being C-suite or Board of Directors of publicly traded companies. Asa Packer is rolling in his grave. You want to talk about Conservative...our founder was.

Lehigh has been lost since Likens. Farrington, Gast, Simon, all abject failures.
MH may not have your wallet but feels the same. Place is lost, and has been for awhile. 3rd gen just graduated and we're all done. Its not just LU but rather the entire institution of academia. So far gone they can't even see the middle anymore. The horseh!t they are cramming down on these kids is absolutely insane, and its carried on into the corp world as well in the HR departments. Very very sad about it. Heartsick really because MH LOVED the place. People say when false ideologies take over our institutions we have real problems coming down the road. MH says they already here.
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Re: Board of Trustees

Post by mookie » Sun Jan 10, 2021 4:52 pm

Started with coeds ruining everything. Zoellner Arts Center was the final straw for me. We all know what kinds of people musical theater attracts.
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Re: Board of Trustees

Post by whiz wit » Sun Jan 10, 2021 6:41 pm

HFO, are you the gentleman from Scotch Plains who I encountered on the top of the Alumni Parking Deck two or three seasons ago, me being from neighboring Westfield?
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Re: Board of Trustees

Post by JAD77 » Sun Jan 10, 2021 7:36 pm

mookie wrote: Sun Jan 10, 2021 4:52 pm Started with coeds ruining everything. Zoellner Arts Center was the final straw for me. We all know what kinds of people musical theater attracts.
:lol: :lol: :lol:

By the way, Asa Packer brought in thugs to quash the Molly Mcguires, a nascent union of Irish coal miners.
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Re: Board of Trustees

Post by ikeremix » Sun Jan 10, 2021 8:00 pm

Spladle1989 wrote: Fri Jan 08, 2021 4:02 pm Ridiculous and reactionary......but that's the way the world is now......we've become a nation of snowflakes.......

Not a Trump fan, but this is just stupid and honestly meaningless...
BUMP!

What a waste of time and really just pathetic.

Great, way to go Lehigh BOT (sarcasm implied). Can’t imagine they have anything better to do during COVID.
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Re: Board of Trustees

Post by TMH » Sun Jan 10, 2021 8:26 pm

I'd like to clear up some misconceptions about Lehigh first.

As much as many don't believe that Lehigh doesn't produce leaders anymore, in a review of the CEOs of the Fortune 500 companies Lehigh ranks in a tie for 10th place of college attended with Yale, Princeton and a few others. All of those ahead of Lehigh were larger, mostly much larger schools. Per Capita, Lehigh is behind only Union College and Bucknell.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/28/these-3 ... -ceos.html

That list will not include some of the much higher profile Lehigh grads like Stacey Cunningham (CEO of the NYSE), Marty Baron (Editor and chief of the Washington Post), Cathy Engelbert (1st female managing partner of a Big 4 Accounting firm and current Commissioner of the WNBA) and a whole host of others.

Lehigh is not a liberal arts school. Although the predominate college is now the College of Arts and Sciences, the vast majority of students appear to be in the sciences. Many I talked to are on some sort of pathway to medical school. The world continues to evolve. What were dynamic industries and much sought fields of studies are dying on the vine. Lehigh has only recently begun to adapt to that change by adding Bioengineering and Computer engineering to the mix.

Lastly, it is not surprising but still very disappointing that people cannot see past their political loyalties. When Bill Cosby's degree was rescinded I suspect the clamoring was different. If the political parties involved were switched the volume would be sky high in the other direction. Make your judgments the way you would in the boardroom, hopefully based on facts.

I'm off my soapbox....now back to wrestling :-)
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Re: Board of Trustees

Post by Sheepdog » Sun Jan 10, 2021 11:26 pm

Trump did not call for protestors to assault the Capital but rather called for peaceful protests. Trump rallies have not been violent & Trump supporters know this election was a fraud. This day was their last chance to express their frustration over the sham that was orchestrated by Biden & corrupt Democratic machine. Time will reveal that Antifa orchestrated the violence consistent with their agenda to create a revolution in America.

I agree with MH that Lehigh has lost its way starting with Likens & the Board of Trustees has caved to socialist faculty & staff that dominate the campus.

This is no longer my Lehigh & like MH I have bled Brown & White my entire life. This was the last straw for me as this was unnecessary & political cowardness by the BOT. Trump will go down as one of the best presidents since WWII in foreign policy with no new wars & peace thru strength.
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Re: Board of Trustees

Post by Asa Packer » Sun Jan 10, 2021 11:28 pm

Did we ever give Guiliani an honorary degree? Asking for a friend. :lol:
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