DUBIOUS ELEVATIONS AT AMERICAN COLLEGE AND THE NAKED LIES

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broomboy

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I was tossing and turning in my sleep and something was nagging me.

Sleep has eluded me for the past several days, especially after
reading the news of a “nobody who was made into “No: 3” and in due
course made into “No: 1” at the dubious American College power
structure”, but this uneasiness was a bit beyond the “naked nepotism”
which was blatantly visible at the corridors of American college. This

morning I happen to glimpse a post in SaveAmericanCollege blogpost on

collective wisdom and collective madness. Every letter in that post
was true as WE encouraged this cassock clad bindranwale to elevate his
sibling into the number 3 position and this monster has grown out of

proposition and has started showing its true colour by proclaiming
himself to be number one.

While tossing and turning I looked at my children peacefully sleeping.

 Now I know what bothered me.  It is the last lines in the Collective
Wisdom post which was like an icing on the cake but a powerful blow on
the face which was bothering me. It said “how amusing it is to

visualize for a second Dr.Christober’s picture hanging along with that
of those starting from Rev.Dr.Washburn”. My uneasiness is the day I
take my children into the great walls of American college to show them
what made me who I am today. I dread the day when I will be leading my
children into the principal’s office to show them the long list of

illustrious principals followed by fading list of principals who

“promoted this incompetent person”  and the tail of “laughable
elevations” to the position of principals….

My dear friends, I want you to stop and visualize the scene I had
painted above. You and I have passed the great walls of this
institution; we have brushed shoulders with great and noble people at
the American College; you and I know what American College stands for.
How can we standby and see this happening to American College…. This
has to be stopped. The history has to be rewritten otherwise you and I
cannot even tell our future generations that we passed through the
burning fires of American college.  If you are reading this post and
if you can pass this ordeal without aversion I don’t blame you,

because you are either not connected to American College or no better

than the sycophants who have elevated the nobody into somebody. But if

you read this post and feel that you can support to save American
College, kindly go to the American College blogspot and say I

support in the comment with your name / pen name. It’s time we have to

make our voices heard....

Looking at the happenings at the American College one cannot wonder
how naked the lies which the perpetrators weaved to achieve what they
have done now. They made the gullible congregation of the CSI Churches
and list of sycophants and their loyal (loyal because of the
expectation of benefits; fear of harassment; or both) staff to believe
that they are safeguarding the ethos and values of church and
Christian minority, in fact they were safeguarding the family
interests. I happened to read a comment in one of the posts, saying “i

can understand the bishop when he brings in his son-in-law as the
principal, i cannot understand the faculty who support this action of

the bishop”. Sorry my brother, I can never understand how the Bishop
nor any sane person can bring Dr. Christober as principal. But there
is an iota of truth in what you said. Stupidity can only be replaced
by mediocrity.That's what has happened in the dubious elevations at
the American College. One Mr.Mohan replaced by another Dr.
Christober.That's why I call all these as Naked lies. I pity the staff
who believed and supported the naked lies of the bishop and his
son-in-law. As DSL wrote the day of reckoning is fast approaching….

broomboy

SOME GOOD NEWS

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Some good news … after so long a time. The salary for the month of December alone of 2010 has been credited yesterday – 17.11.11 - , one month salary after 11 months! More over it is only for the aided staff. Yet the management staff has to be hopeful that their salaries would be coming soon.

The salary has been released by the JDCE, Joint Director of Collegiate Education. She, according to the government order, has declined to honour the false claims of the bishoporic group. Their claims of Principal and Secretary have been shelved. This may be like a light at the far end of a long tunnel!

This may not be the end … but hopefully just the beginning of an end.



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A NOTE FROM ME ..........

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hi folks

Yesterday I found that I have been eased / expelled (?!) out of our college blog by the admin – for their own reasons. I don’t know why.

But I would like to continue what I was doing – bringing the happenings in the college to you all.

.........dharumi
12, Nov. 11

COLLECTIVE WISDOM & COLLECTIVE MADNESS

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Prof. RAJENDRA PANDIAN

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The “naked nepotism” of the Bishop is only an extension of the “unclothed cronyism” we had been practicing at various levels. To cap it all, we made a no body into “No: 3” and in turn they have made him into “No: 1”. What big difference do you find? Of course “Asir himself” had to execute this “laughable elevation of the son-in-law” as our own ‘visionaries’ were not there this time to do it for him. A “servile and illegal makeshift governing council” has helped him in the process as the ‘servile and legal’ council is not there either; now it also is on the makeshift mode fighting for the legitimacy lost. 

It’s true that the Bishop thinks he has” limitless power under the sun and could do whatever he wants to do”.  Were the administrators we had in recent times very different from him? Where are those two Principals who vied with each other in promoting “this utterly incompetent person” in question? Are they not obligated to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with us in the ongoing fight? Where are they and why are they coy to enter the campus after their retirement? How come they visit ‘Ashok Bhavan’ and ‘Thamukkam grounds’ but not the college campus? Is this the breed of leaders this organization groomed spending so much from its resources? One is like a Hardyan character who leaves his native village never to be heard of again. And the other is like an African military junta who simply flees the country after all his attempts to stay in power fail. 

A sizable number of the faculty supporting the Bishop and his son-in-law—a fact that the Fulbrighter (Mr.G.P.Reuben) rues—can perhaps be attributed to the “collective madness” which is a byproduct of the “collective wisdom” Prof. Lawrence has mentioned. The Nehruvian belief that ancient civilizations—or, institutions in this context—that can boast of such wisdom are also prone to this madness at one point or other seems true. The madness in our case manifested itself in the form of full-blown sycophancy and large scale thought-policing on campus induced by lure of benefits; fear of harassment; or both from the top. It remains embarrassingly rhetorical what I, we, and our democratic forums such as the Faculty floor, Senatus, Governing Council; or even the Teachers’ Union did to counter the cutting-edge maladministration the college was experiencing in yesteryears.

Besides fighting the Bishop—no doubt we all will to the very end—I should also admit how amusing it is to visualize for a second Dr.Christober’s picture hanging along with that of those starting from Rev.Dr.Washburn.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.  

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OBITUARY

Death of Decency....

Dear Readers
I would like to present an article that appeared in a blogsite under the title Obituary (http://theopenview.blogspot.com/2011/11/obituary.html) written by a sincere soul under the nick name Broomboy.
I present that for you all...
Thank you Broomboy....

Obituary

It is sad to observe the death of “common decency”, “decorum” and “respect” at the beautiful campus of American College. For close to four years these important virtues of human life were laying in COMA at the corridors of American college and this morning with the announcement of the new appointment of one Dr. Christober Thavamani as the new principle of American college, the remaining bit of "public decency" which existed in the name of “respect” was completely extinguished.
American College, a multi-religious education fraternity, was born in the year 1890. Its parents were noble minded missionaries and unbiased Christian elders who thought “Education” belonged to all the religious sects. In its young days, the American college attracted a number of multi-religious students and produced sons of the soil with aplomb who, till date, hold various prestigious positions throughout the globe.
The first symptom of sickness was witnessed during the early 80s when a common sickness called “caste” attacked this noble institution. This sickness is much deadlier than cancer. Though contingency measures were taken to keep the sickness under control, the cancer started spreading and divided the different parts (faculty members) of the institution. In the mid naught’s (mid 2000s) another severe bout of sickness attacked the institution which was identified as “religious nepotism”. The main culprit who brought this deadly disease to the institution was a deadly parasite called “Asir” who is known to have perpetuated the same disease wherever he had his hand. This parasite lives in a swamp called CSI Madurai diocese and breads a number of other spineless parasites who are otherwise called as cassock clad pastors. This parasite has grown more deadly over the years with illegal acquisition of dubious money and dubious power using religion as a means. Though this parasite is very old and within a few months will bite the dust, atleast its vigour, it is determined to do the maximum damage during its tenure.
This parasite had an equally vicious ally and relative called Christober who had imbedded into the college affairs by mistake. These two parasites started by infecting gullible parts of the body (faculty) by offering large cash rewards and positions in leiue of ‘self respect”. The first victim of this infection was a fat-bellied organ called george selvakumar. After dividing the body parts, it was easy for these parasites to tempt others. Mohan became the next.
Resident doctors, especially Chinnraj and Anbudurai and a number of duty doctors (all faculty members who opposed Asir), many retired doctors and visiting doctors and a couple of noble minded expatriate doctors tried to cure this disease through routine medical aid of court cases. At one point the disease was controlled and started stablising and as everyone was hoping to see the good days of the college and a stable body, the resident doctors blinked their eyes for rest when the parasites attacked viciously and attacked the body with vigiour. This attack crippled the body severely as rowdism, money and caste were used liberaly to unsettle the other parts of the body. Since then the college was lying in a perpetual state of COMA, until this morning the parasite himself announced the appointment of his own son-in-law.
Today this institution leaves behind close to 5000 current students and millions of alumni who are orphaned without a place to go by. Some of the well-wishers are still trying to see if any life can be inhaled into the body of American college. There is one important drug (a strong decisive order in favour of Anbudurai) which is rumored to be owned by the tamilnadu chief minister might be able to infuse some life if administered, but with the drug being so rare to be used and the chief-minister is busy fighting her own demons the friends and relatives of this college are helplessly stranded.

--- broomboy---

DECCAN CHRONICLE - DATED 01-11-2011

American College in fresh controversy

Bishop's son-in-law appointed principal

It's contempt of court, say faculty

The over 125-year-old American College in the city is mired in a fresh controversy.

Even as a slew of cases over the legitimacy of the institution’s governing council which appoints the principal is pending before the court, the administration controlled by CSI Bishop Christopher Asir has (illegally)  appointed his son-in-law Davamani Christober as the new principal and secretary.

On Friday, Mr Christober, the bursar and Maths professor, replaced ‘acting’ principal R. Mohan, also belonging to the Bishop’s camp. Mr Mohan continued to be in office since last December, even as the college had another principal incharge Dr P.R.Anbudurai to whom the then principal Chinnaraj T. Joseph handed over charges on his superannuation.

 While the Bishop’s supporters claimed that the selection of Christober was done in accordance with the college norms and was approved by the governing council (the constitution of their Governing Council is NOT valid & cases are pending in District Court regarding its validity) , the staffs opposing the Bishop for his “illegal takeover of the college” are up against arms over his appointment.

Questioning his appointment, Dr Anbudurai asked, “When the legitimacy of the governing council is itself sub-judice with cases pending before the district and high courts, the council convened by the Bishop is illegal and hence null and void.” Only the principal-cumsecretary is vested with the power to convene the council and the Bishop has no locus-standi in doing so, he says pointing out that Mr Mohan was not allowed to act as the secretary either by the government or the high court.

“The same was made very clear in the judgment pronounced by the Madras high court on August 25, 2011, with regard to disbursal of salary. The government too in its representation before the court had categorically stated that Mr Mohan is not the secretary and no such approval had been given. In this scenario, neither Mr Mohan nor the Bishop have the authority to convene the meeting,” Dr Anbudurai said.

Coming down heavily on the Bishop, the protesting faculty members say that his act of appointing his son-in-law as the principal shows his scant regard not only for the college constitution but also for the government and the court. “The appointment, which amounts to contempt of court, has made it clear that the Bishop is keen on usurping the college for its property and other pecuniary interests,” Dr Anbudurai claimed.

A FRIEND OF OUR COLLEGE WRITES ....

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This morning I got up troubled in spirit with thoughts about the plight of The American College. My faith as a Christian, the beliefs, doctrines and principles that I have been taught by the word of God (The Holy Bible), my parents and very few “true pastors” was put into question. I thought about what had happened to Christian values? Oh! For those who want to know what Christian values are, I cannot, but ask them to read it straight from the Holy Bible, than to listen from any human being, for the very reason of it being imputed by the human mind. (This I say because a lot many Christians are used to listening to the preachings of the bishop and his cronies every Sunday).  I fret to say anything without referring to the verses directly from the word of God,

Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings. It is good for our hearts to be strengthened by grace, not by ceremonial foods, which are of no value to those who eat them - Hebrews 13:9

What do the ‘seemingly weak but strong in hearts’ like Dr. Silas portray as a Christian to all of us? (I used the phrase because for a below average human mind, “meek” appears as “weak”). Meekness isn’t weakness, my beloved friends.

Again from the Bible,

Blessed are the meek; for they shall inherit the earth. - Mathew 5:5

 “INHERIT THE EARTH” wow as it may sound again to the below average human mind who may comprehend it as “inheriting acres of land”. They pray fervently this prayer alone—“Help us who have received so freely from you to give as freely in our turn, and so have the pleasure of giving as well as the happiness of receiving. Amen”—for by this they are able to delude people to be emotionally moved to offer all the little they have at the altar and then they say—“we return to you Lord, what we have received from you”

Every damn activity in a CSI church is with the mercenary motive. We have two-time offertory in the churches, harvest festival, etc. etc all for the bishop and his descendants to store up for themselves. Oh my dear friends, the Lord himself calls such people

"You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?” Mathew 23:33

Why so???? Because all that the Lord called for—purity in mind, purity in hearts, purity in living is lost inside the very temple of God / church (supposed to be the body of Christ).

We have caste discrimination, class differentiation, adultery happening, the church funds are cunningly ransacked and so much more. From the biblical perspective, amassing wealth like this is a terrible abuse of power.

I am hassled to refer my dear friends to this instance, but thank God, it’s the Holy Bible that says it all -

There was a priest in those days named Eli.

Eli's sons were wicked men; they had no regard for the LORD. …

This sin of the young men was very great in the LORD's sight, for they were treating the LORD's offering with contempt. I Samuel 2:12

A sad sight….nothing brings greater reproach on Christianity than minister’s covetousness, sensuality and imperiousness.

Be astonished, O heavens, at this, and tremble, O earth!

No words can sufficiently express the villany of such practices.

And this is not much different from what is happening with the bishops in churches today (CSI ofcourse is in the forefront).

Those we are meant to trust in stewarding OUR wealth do no such thing but have been gambling it away and such is what has been happening with The American College.

Eli’s sons, Hophni and Phinehas (who were also priests) were principally guilty. God gave them sufficient to feed them, but they made themselves fat and served their lusts with that which God was to be served with

They feed on the sins of my people and relish their wickedness.

Hosea 4:8

We cannot escape from a settled and standing rule of God’s government, according to which, all must expect to be dealt with; (like that by which Cain was tried, If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it. Genesis 4:7)

Them that honour Me, I will honour; and they that despise Me, shall be lightly esteemed Psalms 18:25, 26

Particularly be it spoken

1. To the everlasting reputation of religion and serious godliness, that it gives honour to God and puts honour on men
2. Be it spoken to the everlasting reproach of impiety and profaneness, that this dishonours God and will bring dishonour on men, for they that despise God shall be lightly esteemed.

They shall see themselves despised by all mankind, their names a reproach; when they are gone, their memory shall rot and when they rise again, it shall be to everlasting shame and contempt. Psalm 79:12

The prophet Samuel foretells the particular judgements, which should come on Eli’s family to its perpetual ignominy. A  terrible curse it is; and shows how jealous God is in the matters of his worship and how ill He takes it, when those who are obliged, by their character and profession, to preserve and advance the interests of his glory, are false to their trust and betray them. If God’s ministers be vicious and profane, how much surer punishment will they be thought worthy of, here and forever, than other sinners!

Let such read the doom here passed on Eli’s house and tremble.

[I write this not because I consider myself clean in the sight of God and men, but because His grace has been abounding in me and I am saved by His grace. Far be it that my fellow non-Christians think that profaneness in Christianity is tolerated, not because they ought to think so, but because our bishops and his cronies make it seem so!]