Posted on 04/30/2012 5:49:27 AM PDT by AirborneDhampir
GREENVILLE, SC ---
Just a week before graduation, 23 year old Chris Peterman should be preparing his cap and gown. Instead, the Bob Jones University student says he's fighting for the degree he believes he's earned, and he believes the popular television show "Glee" may be partly to blame.
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Why didn’t he go to schools that would have appreciated his “skill set”?
Bet you didn’t expect these replies, now did you?
Did you expect to find sympathy at FR for you, your friend, or your friend's situation? Good luck with that.
When I have time later I'll try and post other links covering the story.
Don't bother...
Did he consider going to UNLV? If it is like everywhere else in Las Vegas I would suspect they have slot machines in the dorm rooms.
One reason why college is so expensive is that we expect they provide everything from an education to a social life to surrogate parenting for the students. Just teach the classes and treat the students like adult customers instead of children needing to be molded. I would bristle at a place like Bob Jones, not because they are so much against what I believe but rather I would hate their presumption that they should have the power to tell me how to live just because I am paying them to take some classes there.
Do you watch “Glee”?
Do you like gladiator movies?
Do you ever hang around in gymnasiums?
Have you ever been in a Turkish prison?
IBTZ
LOL. Actually, he chose instead to reorient his skill set and choose a career path more in keeping with our minister father’s teachings.
1983 Grad here
He knew the rules
He broke the rules
He broke more rules
He is now suffering the consequences.
Life sucks sometimes.
What do you think about this story?
If he doesn't have the intelligence to know when he is being sexually abused,he doesn't have the intelligence to be able to understand when someone explains it to him.
First of all since you went to this university I want to ask “how bad is sexual abuse on that campus”? Makes me wonder how bad it actually is and how much BJU wants to cover it up.
Second the rules stated “could not watch on campus” and he watched it off campus. I’d get a lawyer if I was him.
First of all since you went to this university I want to ask “how bad is sexual abuse on that campus”? Makes me wonder how bad it actually is and how much BJU wants to cover it up.
Second the rules stated “could not watch on campus” and he watched it off campus. I’d get a lawyer if I was him.
You wanna know what I think about it?
There are what, at least 2000+ universities in this country, and the vast majority of them are willing to cater to this guys’ every sexual whim....so why did he have to go to the ONE university that actually dared to have some standards?
Wait a minute!
The rules said “On campus” and he watched it off campus!!
He needs a lawyer. I’d sue not only the university but the student who acted as Gestapo!
With a little digging, I found that the board member in question had been allowing a sexual predator to remain on staff (Shades of the crisis in the Catholic hierarchy) and that this Chris guy did in fact reveal that he was taping the trustees in a showdown with them...so yes, he did force the change.
That said, you do still have to shave and show up in class on time and in washed non stinky clothes.
Also, Glee is nasty, even if you are at Starbucks.
The guy couldn’t keep his act together for one more year?
The actual demerit offences are things any student would have recieved the same demerits for.
Taking a stand on something important does not exempt you from following the rules.
I smell ozone.
IBTZ
Why are you defending this guy? He’s a clown with an agenda, and you have too much time on your hands. What was you old screen name, ash? murrymom?
Wow, I’m pretty surprised by all the trolling. Did anyone actually read the article? Chris wasn’t demanding free condoms and abortions or anything remotely like that. He was protesting a pastor and board member of thethe school who had covered up a rape in his church. If you just Google “Chuck Phelps” (the pastor in question) or “Tina Anderson” (the victim in question) you can learn more about the story. I’m on my Droid now and it’s hell trying to cut and paste direct links, otherwise I’d do so right now.
I’m no liberal troll, believe it or not. I’m a devout Christian, conservative and libertarian in my politics, and a proud American soldier who takes his oath to defend the Constitution very seriously.
I went to BJU off and on from 2003-2008 so I know all about their Pharisaical rules and mentality that thea accused is guilty until proven innocent. The thing is, after Chris staged his protest, he was stalked and tattled on repeatedly because they were desperate to get him in trouble. This was unfair and inexcusable.
Agreed. Why does an 18yo, old enough to go to war, need supervision in how they run their lives? This isn’t high school.
How’s you boss, Cass Sunstein, doing? Don’t worry, I won’t tell him about the clumsy introduction you gave yourself.
Oh, and by the way, please let him know that one of his HLS classmates will pimp-slap him from D.C. to SF next time we get together. Thanks!
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