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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 04:46 AM
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Poll: Majority at ORU want Roberts gone
Source: Houston Chronicle/ Associated Press

Nov. 19, 2007, 9:27PM
Poll: Majority at ORU want Roberts gone

By JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS Associated Press Writer
© 2007 The Associated Press

TULSA, Okla. — More than 80 percent of the faculty at Oral Roberts University do not want Richard Roberts to continue as president of the evangelical school, a new survey shows.

The 118-12 "no" vote was part of a larger, eight-question survey conducted twice during Monday's faculty assembly and obtained by The Associated Press. It included vote tallies for each question and the percentage of faculty members voting each way.

The survey comes a week after tenured faculty voted "no confidence" in Roberts as president, regardless of the outcome of a lawsuit against ORU that accuses him of improper spending.

Roberts has been on temporary leave while an investigation into the school's finances continues.
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The lawsuit against Roberts includes allegations of a $39,000 shopping tab at one store for Richard Roberts' wife, Lindsay; a $29,411 Bahamas senior trip on the university jet for one of Roberts' daughters and a stable of horses for the Roberts children.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/5315580.html
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ChairmanAgnostic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 05:21 AM
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1. But, we are entitled, because, well, we are!
And roberts' wife affairs with male students? Was that something for extra credit, or were they just studying anatomy?
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DeSwiss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 06:31 AM
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4. They would have been better off with a cadaver....
...because they don't call at 3 in the morning.

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Bicoastal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 05:34 AM
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2. So isn't it about time they change the name of their school?
You know, If they hate the Roberts family so much? True, it's mainly the son and his wife they dislike, but...

Well, let me put it to you this way--as a charismatic Christian University, with strict prohibitions on all homosexual activity and heterosexual intercourse, I guarantee you will never find a college less into Oral...

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DeSwiss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 06:58 AM
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7. So you're sayin' they don't do Oral anymore???
Hmmm....

Well, I always liked the name of that college from the Rocky & Bullwinkle Show: "Wassamatter U."

I know, I know....


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Submariner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 06:14 AM
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3. I'm so confused?!?!?
These holy-rollers are screwing around so much, I'm getting my sex scandals mixed up.

Sex Scandal Hits Atlanta-Area Megachurch

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=3888111

Vatican Sex Sting

http://www.newsweek.com/id/56555

Catholic Priest Blames Girls He Molested

http://atheism.about.com/b/a/258678.htm

As an Atheist I feel left out of the scandal business. What a dull life I must lead.
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DeSwiss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 06:41 AM
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6. Maybe they could do a program for us....
....Oh! No. Wait.

Trading cards! They can start with this guy -->


Can you imagine what some people might pay for these things on eBay in a few years???


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DeSwiss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 06:33 AM
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5. If that vote....
...doesn't call Oral home, nothing will.



K&R!
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 07:23 AM
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8. And apparently his wife hasn't been satisfied with the Oral she was getting at home. n/t
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DeSwiss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 11:17 AM
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10. Oh yes!! I loved that one. Kudos!!!
I bow to a Master...



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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 07:29 AM
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9. These guys really should ask their friends, the Revs. Benny Hinn and Ted Haggard
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DeSwiss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 11:26 AM
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11. Binny would do well....
...to keep a low profile these days. Never know when a process-server could pop-up!

And Ted, well if the healing involves the "laying on of hands," and with those oils and scents and stuff? Nuh-unh. That's be a violation of his "hetero re-entry counseling" program. Could cause a serious setback...



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