The curriculum negotiation with Avril: Schtitt pushed theology and grim Kantian ethics

texture · UNDATED (standing; the E.T.A. curriculum designed at founding, B.S. era)

• When: UNDATED (the founding-era curriculum compromise between Avril and James/Schtitt)
• What: E.T.A.'s scholastic curriculum is "the product of negotiated compromises between Avril's academic hard-assery and James's and Schtitt's keen sense of athletic pragmatics." Schtitt "never let Incandenza forget what the place was supposed to be about," so Avril's classical curriculum was "pragmatically focused toward the corpore-potis-type goals." On the six-term Entertainment Requirement (athletes as entertainers), Schtitt was on the losing side alongside Avril — one of the few points JOI "had to pretty much ram down the throats of both Avril and Schtitt, who was pushing hard for some mix of theology and the very grim ethics of Kant."