Arkansas college now says students can't play lottery

[KamaAina]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091016/ap_on_bi_ge/us_college_gambling_lottery_arkansas

A Christian college that had exempted Arkansas' lottery from a student gambling ban reversed course on Friday and said students can't buy the tickets after all.

Harding University President David Burks said now the school will include the lottery in its rule prohibiting students from gambling on or off campus. Administrators at Harding, a liberal arts Christian school in Searcy affiliated with the Church of Christ, had decided in August to make an exception for the lottery in its gambling prohibition....

"My intention was to express in our policy the reality that it will be very difficult to enforce any prohibition against the lottery," Burks said in a statement released by the school. "In an attempt to avoid one appearance of hypocrisy, I made a decision that has itself come to be viewed as hypocritical."

But wait, you say. I didn't know Arkansas even had a lottery. Well, read on...

Arkansas launched its lottery on Sept. 28 with the sale of scratch-off tickets and the state will begin selling Powerball tickets Oct. 31. The games are expected to raise $100 million annually for college scholarships.

So the headline should actually read "Arkansas wingnut college now says students can't help fund college scholarships". :eyes:

edit: header

[petronius]

1. I wonder if the school will allow students to accept lottery-funded scholarships?

Actually, I don't have a problem with schools like this setting any conduct rules they want, I just don't get why anyone would want to go there...