Jesus is my study buddy

Much to my chagrin, I've discovered IU has been in a silent church and state debacle for ages.\nIt's there, it's glaring. Our school is sponsored by God.\nAttempting to seek an answer to IU's least-known controversy, I turn to the crooning of Tony Bennett.\n"Speak low when you speak of love," he sings with raspy flare. It's a great rule of thumb to abide by, as the ways l'amore tend to be laid around a jagged, thin line we call "the rules."\nIt's hard to give love boundaries, and that seems to be something we all agree on. \nBut would we not notice when someone uttered, "All's fair in the separation of church and state?" \nPolitics only seem to make strange bedfellows when the partners are inflamed with the passions of the libido instead of the philosophical implications of our Constitution. Engage the most focused of lovers with seeing the Ten Commandments in an Alabama courthouse and Peter North would swiftly become a Peter Jennings, leaving that lonely housewife no means with which to have her "cable fixed."\nBut emotions of the heart and ideas of the mind are completely separate arenas. Relativity within the political sphere leads one to declare: "Wafty answer. If you don't pick a side, you're not truly 'standing' for anything."\nSo what of keeping God out of public institutions? Zero-sum? Or shall we let sleeping golden calves lie?\nWell, for the Alabama government, a decision needs to be made, despite the contention. And in the case of highlighting one major religion in the house of a "blind" Lady Justice, there's no room for half answers. \nBut what about IU? It's interesting that we have quite the heavenly inscription on a prominent Bloomington monument.\nIf you're strolling in the woods behind Franklin Hall, you've probably seen the Well House. It's the large, stone gazebo where young female coeds were fabled to meet their beaus at the stroke of midnight back when the University issued curfews to prevent such trysts.\nSomething you probably haven't seen is located on the back of the small dome. Embedded in rock is the University seal with a book in its center framed by the words "Indianaensis Universitatis Sigillum." Today, we really can't read it on that center image, but on the back of the Well House, it's crystal clear.\n"Holy Bible."\nYes, this public institution seems to have been the school that God built. Our seal, the very symbol that supposedly acts as the visual representation of the campus and its works, is centered by the representation of a whole separate sect of thought, belief and law. \nDoes this mean that nameless book we find on our seal today still represents that sacred text? \nBy the transitive property of equality it may seem so. \nBut I think we know better. The image today, in all likelihood, can stand for any book that contains the knowledge and ideas we value and study here on campus. \nBut that still leaves the Holy Bible on University grounds.\n"Speak low, when you speak of God," perhaps?\nWith every case of P.C. we see, maybe a more common sense solution is necessary. When we decide to use our efforts to charge politically, engender animosity amongst our peers and break out the sledgehammers, as a group of citizens, is there a point where we simply put up?\nMaybe the rules in terms of church and state aren't that easy to decipher. Call it history. Art. A violation of your rights. Call it whatever you wish, but the question you must ask yourself first is, "Is it worth it"