According to Inside Higher Education, the president of William and Mary stepped down after the school's Board refused to extend his contract. The reason: it turns out conservatives pressured the state legislators to fire Gene R. Nichol because, as president, Gene R. Nichol supported the removal of a cross from a campus building (it was later put in a chapel) and he supported the students when they hosted a controversial art exhibit by sex industry workers. The Board stated ideological differences were not the cause...
The Board also asked Nichol to accept a buyout on the condition he stated the firing had nothing to do with ideological grounds. Nichol refused.
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