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As a recent graduate of NTC, the college's decision to dismiss Dr. Ryan Topping has been a cause of great sorrow and concern to me. Dr. Topping is perhaps the most excellent man of my acquaintance, and his contributions to the the college, to the young people's Catholic community in Edmonton, to vocations, and to the Western Canadian Church in general are unquestionably unparalleled accomplishments. Dr. Topping should be known by the fruit of his work, and these fruits include joyful, open, and intelligent students who love the Faith and who are welcoming and understanding of others. Through Credo and Adoremus, young people have been inspired to seek baptism or return to the Church. These fruits, his personal virtue, and his excellence in academia, pedagogy, and research all lead me to think that the board's decision must be based not on truth or the needs and expressed desires of the students and community, who independently seek out what Dr. Topping stands for, but on personal malice or internal corruption. The case here seems to be parallel to that of Socrates and the Athenian youth, only Socrates was given a trial. Please do not do the college, the community, and yourselves the same disservice Athens did.
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