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A culture of fear: Liberty U trustees under fire for ignoring complaints about Falwell Jrs campus carousing
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According to a report at the Wall Street Journal, Liberty University trustees are feeling heat from both alumni and students who want answers as to why they ignored multiple reports about school president Jerry Falwell Jrs campus hijinks that included him wandering about and smelling of alcohol.
Now that Falwell has been ousted following both a drinking and a sex scandal involving his wife and their pool boy, trustees of the evangelical Christian college are being called to account for their inaction after complaints ramped up about Falwell during the past year.
Noting that the Liberty University code of conduct states students can be expelled for drinking or sexual misconduct, the Journal reports, Former school administrators said staff and donors complained that he showed up to campus appearing drunk or smelling of alcohol. He told another Christian leader on Twitter to grow a pair. One former staffer recounted overhearing him say a tea at a campus cafe reminded him of a whiskey he had tried. Once, at a Liberty football game, he accidentally sent a risqué photo of his wife to a number of administrators, including his son, according to people who witnessed it.
According to former student Caitlin Elliott, during Falwells tenure there was a culture of fear on campus.
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'A culture of fear': Liberty U trustees under fire for ignoring complaints about Falwell Jr's campus (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Sep 2020
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underpants
(182,868 posts)1. It was their kingdom
and the money was just pouring in. Massive expansion. Gobbled up real estate in Lynchburg.
crickets
(25,982 posts)2. K&R for visibility.
yellowcanine
(35,701 posts)3. All the trustees need to resign. They are inherently conflicted.
LastDemocratInSC
(3,649 posts)4. The trustees are a politburo, nothing more.
And Falwell was a totalitarian on his down-the-rabbit hole campus in Lynchburg, with the ironic name of LIBERTY.