Regarding the Dean of Theology position, Pasha Blatkovechkin should have been promoted (and he applied several times, Bowie even vouched for him) because of his contributions to the department, not because he was an SA priest. The Theology department should be an academic field for all religions not a bell jar over the ones not pertinent to the Dean. Deanships should be given to the best regular contributors of a field. A Dean of Theology then is someone who examines, explores, challenges, analysis, experiences etc. religions of Dwilight. This position has to abide by the same point I made above. If the Dean of Theology accepted or rejected works based on her own policies and not the open spirit of the institution then she should not be the Dean. What they submit is their own, but what they allow submitted should depend on the quality (not content) of the work.
That is stupid.
You have an academic institution on a continent with a huge, deeply RP-ed, well-financed, politically-powerful religion that geographically overlaps your university, and you want to make your Dean of Theology a dean of, what, sociology of religion? Comparative religion?
Hell no! Make it the Jesuit boot camp. Make it mandatory for priests over a certain rank to get a "Degree" from Dwilight University's Theology department.
You claim to have an OOC desire to create culture. Prove it. Use the big RP institution at your disposal (Dwilight University) in tandem with another big RP institution (Sanguis Astroism) to create synergies of RP.
In other words, make Mathurin Hossenfeffer your Dean of Theology. Or, actually, maybe Hireshmont II will have a little chat with Labell Enstance... (that way, Terran could still have a lock on the University, even as in Astroizes!)
