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The name is rather [[Orwellian]]. Firstly, at Liberty University, students do not have the ''[[liberty]]'' to attend dances, break curfew, watch "R" rated movies, view [[porn|sexually explicit material]], enter the bedroom of someone of the opposite [[sex]], or otherwise exhibit behavior "associated with a [[Liberal|counterculture]]".<ref>Unless, of course, that counterculture happens to be Rev. Falwell's cult.</ref> Students may not drink [[alcohol]], or smoke [[tobacco]], or organize petitions without permission, and are also subjected to random, mandatory drug tests. This restrictive code of conduct is called the "Liberty Way".<ref>[http://www.liberty.edu/media/1210/Code%20of%20Conduct%20Revised%2012_09%20LATEST.pdf According to a PDF from their website]</ref> No joke intended. Academic posts are mostly non-tenured so the authorities can control staff as well. | The name is rather [[Orwellian]]. Firstly, at Liberty University, students do not have the ''[[liberty]]'' to attend dances, break curfew, watch "R" rated movies, view [[porn|sexually explicit material]], enter the bedroom of someone of the opposite [[sex]], or otherwise exhibit behavior "associated with a [[Liberal|counterculture]]".<ref>Unless, of course, that counterculture happens to be Rev. Falwell's cult.</ref> Students may not drink [[alcohol]], or smoke [[tobacco]], or organize petitions without permission, and are also subjected to random, mandatory drug tests. This restrictive code of conduct is called the "Liberty Way".<ref>[http://www.liberty.edu/media/1210/Code%20of%20Conduct%20Revised%2012_09%20LATEST.pdf According to a PDF from their website]</ref> No joke intended. Academic posts are mostly non-tenured so the authorities can control staff as well. | ||
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Liberty?
The name is rather Orwellian. Firstly, at Liberty University, students do not have the liberty to attend dances, break curfew, watch "R" rated movies, view sexually explicit material, enter the bedroom of someone of the opposite sex, or otherwise exhibit behavior "associated with a counterculture".[1] Students may not drink alcohol, or smoke tobacco, or organize petitions without permission, and are also subjected to random, mandatory drug tests. This restrictive code of conduct is called the "Liberty Way".[2] No joke intended. Academic posts are mostly non-tenured so the authorities can control staff as well.
Secondly, it is barely a university. The lack of academic and other freedom has not improved the University’s academic performance; Liberty University has earned a prominent place on Radar Online’s list of the worst colleges in the country.[3] Despite their lack of academic credentials, their debate team is one of the highest ranked in the nation, having won several major national championships. It should be noted that they sponsor such a great debate team in order to create the lawyers that they hope will argue against Roe v. Wade.[4]
But participating in championship debating requires them to be capable of debating both sides of a question; this means that some of their debaters have to, on occasion, argue in favor of legalized abortion. This has drawn criticism from at least one Dominionist crank who thinks that because Aristotle was "probably a homosexual," he had nothing useful to say on the subject of logic.[5]
Randall Price, head of the university's Center for Judaic Studies, is planning a trip to Turkey to find remnants of Noah's Ark.[6]
Academia
Some of the most highly coveted[7] classes one can take at Liberty University include classes that teach creation studies[8] and, particularly, Young Earth Creationism in lieu of evolution or actual biology. The university, itself, has a Center for Creation Studies[9], which, similar to the Discovery Institute, seeks to create evidence supporting creationism out of thin air.
"Research"
The Pre-Trib Research Center is based at Liberty University.
“”PTRC Mission Statement
The Pre-Trib Research Center is a "think tank" committed to the study, proclamation, teaching and defending of the Pretribulational Rapture (pre-70th week of Daniel) and related end-time prophecy.
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Local Influence
Against the wishes of approximately everyone in the universe, Liberty went ahead with their plan to desecrate a mountain overlooking most of Lynchburg with a giant logo so large it can literally be seen clear into the next county. Children and the elderly have been known to break down into tears at the sight of the monstrosity, defacing what was once a beautiful part of the Appalachians.
Liberty owns, either directly or indirectly, many local businesses, including a movie theater, a year-round ski slope, some strip malls, and a diploma mill. People who protest Liberty are served notices that they are henceforth banned from all these properties, which is essentially everything in town but the Sheetz. It is actually NOT the largest employer in Lynchburg; a sinister foreign (French!) company called Areva holds that honor. It is, however, the reason why no restaurants bother staying open late, because the students all have to be kissed goodnight at 11pm.
Many disturbances at the other private colleges in town are caused by Liberty students who think they can sneak out to stay up late and watch movies like normal people.
Jerry Falwell was single-handedly responsible for keeping the Cracker Barrel across the street open with the sheer amount of greasy foods he consumed, until he mysteriously died of a clogged heart.
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Footnotes
- ↑ Unless, of course, that counterculture happens to be Rev. Falwell's cult.
- ↑ According to a PDF from their website
- ↑ Worst Christian University: Liberty University (VA). Radar Online: August 17, 2007.
- ↑ Chafets, Zev. Ministers of Debate. The New York Times Magazine: March 19, 2006.
- ↑ http://www.theamericanview.com/index.php?id=590
- ↑ Thompson, Dave. Excursion continues to find Noah’s Ark in Turkey. The News & Advance: December 28, 2009. Myers, PZ. Another indicator of the high academic standards of Liberty University. December 28, 2009.
- ↑ Coveted by them, not us
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Creation Studies homepage