re: LSU Law Center chancellor is resigning...

Weiss stepping down had nothing to do with the diversity mess

Jack Weiss came into LSU as an outsider. He was not liked in 2008 through 2011 when I was there. He replaced all the Vice Chancellors with his own people when he arrived and there was a lot of turmoil over the direction he wanted to take the law school.

He was Especially unliked by the Civil Law professors. The civilians have their own way of thinking and tend to hold very tight to the civil law and want it to continue to be fully embraced by the law school.

Diversity may have been used by his enemies as a tool to undermine Weiss. But it was not the issue.

Like the civil war, it was fought over economics and southern cotton being sold to France and England rather than the northern states. Northern factories were sitting silent because Europe was paying better prices for southern cotton. Northern ships blockaded southern ports and away things went Slavery only became an issue late in the war when the northern public started turning against the war and Lincoln. Lincoln had to give the war a higher moral purpose and made slavery the issue to gain support from the public and sustain the war effort.