It's Official: The American Chesterton Society Conference is Forever Changed

[PointlessShrew]

I don’t get to come here very often (time–there’s never enough), but a friend of mine asked me to re-post this here, just as an FYI. If you want more information, you can see the top two entries on my blog (addy below):

"…this will be the last time we hold the conference at St. Thomas. It’s very unfortunate…" ~Dale Ahlquist, President, American Chesterton Society

Since June of 1997, the American Chesterton Society has held their annual Conference–which celebrates British journalist and Catholic convert Gilbert Keith Chesterton, his writings (covering just about everything under the sun and more), and a wide variety of other authors, artists, thinkers, ideals and ideas regarding every conceivable facet of Christian cult, cultivation, and culture, past, present and future–at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. No more. This next week will see the end of this tradition with the intolerable imposition of new restrictions on the Chestertonians by St. Thomas’ Campus Security’s event coordinator, Bill Carter, et al.

The question has been asked, “Aren’t the new restrictions being imposed for the good of all parties?”

We think not.

At issue are the the following longstanding Chesterton Society Conference traditions and the problems that have developed only during the past week…

(see blog for more: too long to put here…angrynunnohabit.blogspot.com/)

In His Grace, miki

 

[Dale_M]

The requirement that any food or drink be handled by the university food service sounds like it may be a union requirement. Was the reason explained for the change?

Certainly the presence of a security guard is reasonable when alcohol is being served to a largely off-campus crowd. Ditto for the outside fence - it would be necessary to keep strangers from wandering in and out.

I attended college at an urban university and these requirements don’t seem out of the ordinary to me. But as to why they weren’t enforced before and are being enforced now… I guess that is worth speculating about.

 

[KathleenElsie]

Sadly I believe you have been UNIONED. This is the same as when here in PA a local small destitute town is forced to pay “prevailing” wage to get their streets paved. Or when the teachers wages are three or four times the average tax payers wage in their district.