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Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

2011

Publication Source

Catholic Studies Reader

Abstract

During the University of Dayton's sesquicentennial in the year 2000, the singer-songwriter alumnus who headed the university's Center for Social Concern performed a song he written for the occasion, "Do Whatever He Tells You." At the reception after the celebration, a colleague still fairly new to the university, nonreligious but with an evident affinity for the university's mission and commitments, commented that he thought the song was little odd; hadn't something like "do whatever he tells you" been written over the gates of Soviet labor camps? My first response to the remark, phrased more wittily than I can recall here, was laughter, but I also felt the pull of the teachable moment.

Inclusive pages

171-192

ISBN/ISSN

9780823234110

Document Version

Published Version

Comments

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Publisher

Fordham University Press

Place of Publication

Bronx, NY

Peer Reviewed

yes

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