A world gone mad

Just when I think nothing can surprise me, I run into the following two stories.

Story #1:
A Pennsylvania man is suing the University of Michigan Law School because it didn't make special accommodations for his admittedly poor typing skills.
Adrian Zachariasewycz graduated from the law school in 2004 with a "B'' average but says in his lawsuit that on certain exams he received "borderline failing grades'' because he couldn't type as much in the allotted time as other students.
Zachariasewycz, 40, told a reporter that he has moved back into his parents' home and has been unable to find a job because his 2.996 grade point average doesn't interest employers.
Law school spokesman Gerald Schorin said in a statement that students generally choose for themselves whether to write examination answers by hand or whether to type on a keyboard.
Zachariasewycz said he was never warned by U-M that he would need typing skills and it never occurred to him to learn to type before entering law school. He said he consistently scored in the top half of the class on exams that didn't require rapid typing.

What??? Who on Earth (besides this guy) has gone to college and not realized they would need typing skills? DUH!!! Jeez, I took typing in 8th grade. Get a life and stop blaming everyone else for your shortcomings.

Story #2:
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. - As a Catholic, Vince Haley often went to Mass at the College of William and Mary's historic Wren Chapel when he was an undergraduate in the 1980s. Also a Catholic, school President Gene R. Nichol often goes to the 120-seat chapel alone at night to think in the quiet.
Both agree the chapel is a sacred space meaningful to students, alumni, faculty and staff of the public school who use it for religious services and secular events.
They clash, though, over what to do with an unadorned, 18-inch brass cross that had been displayed on the altar since about 1940.
Nichol ordered the cross removed in October to make the chapel more welcoming to students of all faiths. Previously, the cross could be removed by request; now it can be returned by request.
"It's the right thing to do to make sure that this campus is open and welcoming to everyone," Nichol said. "This is a diverse institution religiously, and we want it to become even more diverse."
"Does that marvelous place belong to everyone, or is it principally for our Christian students?" Nichol said. "Do we actually value religious diversity, or have we determined, because of our history, to endorse a particular religious tradition to the exclusion of others?"
William and Mary, founded by royal charter in 1693 with a mission that included training Anglican ministers, is the nation's second-oldest university after Harvard. Alumni include President Thomas Jefferson.
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Seems everyone wants us to be tolerant of all viewpoints...but they don't have to be tolerant of ours. A 2001 poll shows 76.5% of Americans identify themselves as Christian. I would never go into a non-Christian place of worship and feel out of place simply because I didn't see any Christian symbols. Let's try to get over ourselves and just get along.