Posted on 08/26/2021 9:27:51 PM PDT by 11th_VA
BATESVILLE, Ark. (KAIT) - The Lyon College of Board of Trustees has accepted the resignation of President W. Joseph King, effective immediately following comments made in a publication.
According to a media release from Lyon College Board Chairman Perry L. Wilson, the board accepted the resignation Thursday...
Several civic leaders say they were “disappointed and shocked” by comments the former Lyon College president recently made and urged the board of trustees to fire him.
King came under fire earlier this week following comments he made in the Chronicle of Higher Education, claiming Batesville was a town full of white supremacists.
He even went so far as to claim thousands of hostile Trump supporters held a rally last fall and vandalized his campus home.
Batesville Police Chief Alan Cockrill told Region 8 News that the rally and the alleged vandalism never happened.
“Dr. King’s inaccurate portrayal of the community and later comments about the State of Arkansas have resulted in overwhelming disdain for his role as a leader in this community and shattered confidence in his ability to represent and lead Lyon College,” the letter stated.
While they said the community at large still supports and cares for the college’s faculty, staff and students, they said: “confidence in the current administration has been lost and partnerships are irreparable.”
Elumbaugh, Griffin, and Johnson stated they had received numerous phone calls and messages from constituents and neighbors demanding action.
“We all join together, united, to urge the board of trustees to terminate the employment of W. Joseph King so this community, its leaders, and Lyon College can move forward in unity,” they concluded...
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President Joe King.= Pres. Joking?
Did he think he could make up a big lie that Trump supporters rallied and damaged his home last fall without somebody fact checking him? Wrong-O!
Allow me to recommend a book : Lying 4 Dummies!
Other than Hillsdale College are there any colleges or universities that aren’t dominated by these insane Leftists?
Check out his interview from April 2017.
https://www.lyonhighlander.com/single-post/2018/02/19/Lyon-Welcomes-President-Joey-King
Fool just doing what every other CEO/president around the Country is doing.
Every dirtbag pushing this Woke, racist BS should be terminated from the job immediately.
BYU, but it's getting close.
Please tell me there are more than 2.
I know Notre Dame is done.
Thomas More College, Christendom College, Magdalen College, Thomas Aquinas College, Ave Maria University, University of Dallas, University of Steubenville . . . and I haven't even started on the Evangelical ones.
This is the time for training the troops of the next generation--intellectual, philosophical, theological, and physical. And also forming communities of patriots around institutions like these.
With the overreach of Vax Anti-Americana, the veil has dropped. Our people are beginning to unite the way I haven't seen in 40 years. It took only 7 months for Biden to fail. This country is too big to cancel.
It will take time, but seeing the face of the devil has a way of simplifying things.
Bkmk
Invisible rallies and vandalism are a serious problem these days. Ignore at your own peril.
Grove City...
Did he think he could make up a big lie that Trump supporters rallied and damaged his home last fall without somebody fact checking him?
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Yes, of course.
For the! “woke” left being woke means it’s OK to lie, cheat, steal, and even murder somebody if it’s being done to advance the cause.
btt
And, for what is is worth, there is a sizeable Hispanic population in the town due to a major poultry processing plant. They don't need woke blokes like this.
They have a new football coach, Kevin Kelley, who is known as the "no punt" coach. Ought to be an interesting season...I'll try to follow, though finding Pioneer league broadcasts is a non-trivial challenge for me.
Texas needs to secede so about 27 other states can join them....
Based on that self-centered interview about how he would like to live with the finer conveniences like Whole Foods, how he wouldn't fit in with non-Southerners, what a pain in the ass it had been to live among the Appalachian poor, and especially when they asked him what he'd like to say to students and he just talked about how he was just too darn busy to meet with them, they should never have hired this douchebag in the first place.
Where would Colin Kapernick be now if he hadn't invented kneeling? At best, a has-been ex-NFL third stringer hawking something somewhere.
Kelley? He was a HS football coach in Arkansas - famous for not punting. It’s a bold and interesting hire for Presbyterian.
I was talking about Joe King, the subject of the article.
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