[Sleeping in EQ]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

and the thought occurred to me, wouldn't it be great to have a cougarguard version of BYU?

That is something I could support.

I was sad to hear that BYU axed one of my old instructors, Darron Smith, from the sociology dept. He was the person who first introduced me to the idea that "blacks and the priesthood" was not gospel doctrine, but rather a church practice with likely racist roots from Brigham Young. Little did Darron know that this would lead to multiple suspensions for me on cougarboard....

Here is Darron's website. We exchanged emails only about a year ago.

http://www.darronsmith.com/index.html

He also co-edited a book "Black and Mormon" that was published by the Univ. of Illinois. Perhaps we may consider it for book of the month/quarter.

Black and Mormon is a pretty good compilation. Do you know why Smith was axed? Was it a tenure track thing? Did some administrator object to his publishing?