Isn’t it ironic that MUW, an institution that requires students to operate within the boundaries of an Honor system, is led by a president and governed by an IHL: Board that make a mockery of concepts like good faith, openness, and accountability.
Once again, the; Limbert-Sansing-Meredith team has demonstrated their collective contempt, not only for the Mississippi Legislature, whose unanimous resolutions they pointedly ignored, but now for the judicial process and Judge Dorothy Colom as well, by knowingly and deliberately violating a signed and notarized agreement filed in the Lowndes County Chancery Court.
On April 12, Julie Hussey, attorney for MUWAA and Cal Mayo, attorney for Dr. Claudia Limbert and the IHL Board, signed an agreement and filed it with the Chancery Clerk. It contained the following provisions: (1) “The University agrees to remove from the IHL Board agenda for the April 20 meeting the approval of the MUW/MUW Alumni Association Affiliation agreement,” and (2) “The University agrees not to place this item back on the IHL Board agenda prior to Judge Colom hearing the motion for preliminary injunction and motion to dismiss....”
In direct violation of that agreement, the University proceeded to put the item on the IHL Board’s May agenda, and the IHL passed it.
Once again Limbert has shown her contempt for anyone or anything that would constrain her power. She behaves as if a college president is a sovereign entity who is above the law, the legislature, and the court.
While professing to work for unification and inclusion, she has done nothing but polarize and divide.
As a measure of last resort, the MUWAA is suing Limbert and the IHL, not the new puppet association that Limbert created. Limbert disaffiliated the association. Limbert seeks to control and punish an entire organization because of her dislike for a few individuals who criticized her handling of the Scott Rawles issue and her treatment of Alumnae Office personnel. In court on Tuesday, it will be the MUWAA vs. Limbert.
Like an illusionist, using diversion to keep your eyes off his hand, Perry Sansing in an absurd effort to remove Limbert from the equation, now tries, every time he talks to the media, to spin the situation as a disagreement between two competing factions of alumni...who, he always adds, he hopes will work things out.
After a year of constant conflict, there is only one thing that all parties seem to agree on, it is time to move forward. That is not likely to happen, however, until someone makes it clear to Limbert that she is not above the law.