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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
 Posted - 10/26/2007 : 02:48:13
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Good news from Faith Healing Central! Faced with scandals, looting, charges of sexual hanky-panky, falling donations, and rising debts, Oral Roberts University may soon be history. Hallelujah!
ORU replaces its "Praying Hands" sculpture
with new "Begging Hands" monument.
TULSA, Oklahoma: Oral Roberts University, which is fighting accusations that its president misspent school funds, faces a crippling debt load, the chairman of the school's board of regents said.
Chairman George Pearsons told The Associated Press that maintenance costs and low financial support from donors have put the evangelical university $55 million (€38.65 million) in debt. University spokesman Jeremy Burton later said the debt is actually $52.5 million (€36.89 million).
“Honestly, we've been struggling financially,” Pearsons said. “Really my goal — and it's a big one — my goal is to obliterate the debt.” |
Meanwhile (as I predicted), aging and despicable faithhealer and flim-flammer Oral Roberts Hisself has moved back to Tulsa in a desperate attempt to either save the university he founded, or to complete the looting in a proper Charismatic fashion:TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Oral Roberts returned to his namesake university Monday and denied the lurid accusations that have threatened to engulf the school, telling students and employees in a chapel service that "the devil is not going to steal ORU."
Making his first visit to Oral Roberts University in three years, Roberts said at the service that his son Richard Roberts, who took a leave of absence as the school's president last week, eventually will return to his position, the Tulsa World reported.
Three former professors sued the university Oct. 2 for wrongful termination, claiming they were dismissed after they turned over to the board of regents a copy of a report documenting moral and ethical lapses on the part of Richard Roberts and his family.
Oral Roberts, 89, said in the chapel service that he has moved back to Tulsa from California, where he has lived for several years. The crowd gave him standing ovations.
The 5,700-student Bible Belt university will begin mediation this week with the three former professors, he said.
Gary Richardson, attorney for the professors, said Monday that he had no desire to go to mediation so long as ORU "denies doing anything wrong."
"There's been smoke in this city about this stuff for years," Richardson said. |
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
Edited by - HalfMooner on 10/26/2007 03:40:45
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bngbuck
SFN Addict
USA
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Posted - 10/26/2007 : 11:44:40 [Permalink]
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I sincerely hope Oral (god, how apt!)sucks the rest of the bones of the "university" dry, gets totally busted, and goes to jail for the rest of his unnatural fucking life!
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As ORU struggles with $50 mil debt, Oral returns
