Friday, August 11, 2006
It's about time...
The Knights of Columbus at UW-Madison are recognized as a student organization, but had to make a deal with the devil to do so. But it seems like the Milwaukee Sentinel Journal got it wrong...this is from the Assoicated Press.
MADISON - A top University of Wisconsin-Madison official apologized Thursday for erroneously announcing the school had reached an agreement to recognize a Knights of Columbus affiliate as a student group.
The university announced late Wednesday that it had an agreement to recognize a branch of the Catholic service organization that would be open to all students. The university had earlier refused to approve the group because its membership was limited to Catholic men, violating a state anti-discrimination law.
But the group's faculty adviser, Mark Etzel, said no agreement had been reached because the Knights had not agreed to changes the university wanted to make to the group's mission and membership policies. He had objected to the announcement after it was issued, warning a school spokesman in an e-mail, "Do not release this false information to the media."
After standing by the release for most of the day on Thursday, Casey Nagy, executive assistant to UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley, issued a statement in the afternoon saying the university mistakenly believed it had resolved the issue last night.
"For the confusion that has resulted, and the distraction from the real question - of how to enable the good programs of the Knights organization to continue on campus - we apologize," he said. "We will continue to work toward an accord that all parties can endorse."
OK, so how does this happen? Do the administrators at Madison want to get rid of this bad publicity that badly? I guess so.
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