[DeweyCA]

I may certainly be wrong, and I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings, but these "Campus Ministy" projects by mainline denominations (in this case Methodist), in my experience, are often started and run by liberal Christians who really don't know what they believe. It sounds like they started with fuzzy goals, and then went even further off track by hiring mostly non-Christians, until finally some responsible lay board member asked what in the world they were actually accomplishing with the money that was being spent to support this "ministry."

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I'd consider that, too. Follow the money in any entity if you want to get to brass tacks. ;)

[weegee]

...some responsible lay board member asked what in the world they were actually accomplishing with the money that was being spent to support this "ministry."

Well it sounds like it was a pretty happening bohemian place, cheap meals, live bands (probably secular), political (agitprop?) discussions were held...

And they probably got some tail from coy college girls who at first bought into the notion that it was a "Christian community center".