LIBERTY STUDENT NEWS

He was sentenced today to serve 180 days behind bars for aggravated sexual battery.

News & Advance:

““I am truly sorry for what I have done,“ Moon said.
“I wish I could go back and do things differently.“
His lawyer, Randy Trost, said there was no violence or intent to hurt the victim.

Trost said Moon had misread social cues from previous massages and help he was giving her on tests.
Trost said Moon was “socially and sexually naive.“
Moon’s full sentence was five years in prison, but a judge suspended all but 180 days.”

Thanks to Jeff Barber’s twitter, we see the first look of Williams Stadium being re-modeled.

It happen last year during the Liberty Democrats scandal. Now they’re back, “calling for an investigation into whether Liberty University officials used school resources to influence the outcome of a House of Delegates election in November.”

They claim LU used the Liberty Champion ” in a partisan effort to elect Republican candidate Scott Garrett.” But Jerry Falwell Jr. and Matt Staver have answered to these allegations and may be “considering filing a civil law suit for harassment against the organization.”

News & Advance:

Garrett beat out Democratic incumbent Shannon Valentine by about 209 votes, largely thanks to returns from a precinct populated by Liberty University voters.

Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United, called this the most “over-the-top” illegal politicking he has ever seen.

“This was an absolute, sleazy political operation,” he said. “Nothing more or less.”

Nonprofits under tax-exempt status, such as Liberty University, cannot engage in political politicking without being in violation of the IRS code, Cobb said.

Mathew Staver, dean of LU’s law school and founder of Liberty Counsel, called the organization’s allegations “bogus,” adding that LU’s students retain editorial control of the Liberty Champion and the paper provided fair and balanced coverage of the election.

Staver also said LU is considering filing a civil law suit for harassment against the organization.

LU Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr. said he felt Americans United had really “painted itself into a corner” with this complaint.

“Unless they now file a complaint against every university newspaper in the country that endorsed a candidate, our claim that they’re nothing but a partisan organization will be proven true,” he said.

Liberty University is outraged with Lynchburg City Council over moving the Heritage Elementary School to
Lynchburg First Church of the Nazarene. The problem is that it’ll be troubling for LU shuttles to drop off students to vote.

WSET:

“Lynchburg City Council is having a hearing Tuesday about moving a polling location from Heritage Elementary School to the Lynchburg First Church of the Nazarene on Wards Ferry Road. Students plan to show up to the hearing by the bus load.

For students they say it comes down to safety. The electoral board is talking about this Monday evening. LU student leaders say if they had their choice, they’d rather not move.

SGA President Matt Mihelic wanted council to consider Thomas Road Baptist Church or the former Circuit City Building as options, but those were voted down last week.

“If they’re totally unwilling to move it anywhere closer to our campus, at least don’t make us cross another busy road to vote. And we’d rather have it at Heritage that we would the First Church of the Nazarene,” Mihelic said.

GLTC officials say buses pulling into the church’s parking lot bottom out, so riders would have to be dropped off on the side of Wards Ferry Road.

LU Attorney and former city councilmember Bill McRorie says the church site is unsafe.

Vice Mayor Bert Dodson, Jr. said, “We have not heard from everybody in relation to the safety issue. And to make accusation that Lynchburg City Council does not care about the safety of the students is completely unfounded and unconscionable.”

Dodson says the church is only being considered as a possible location, and he hopes to hear students’ concerns.”

Liberty University adds MS in Sports Management to its graduate degrees. This graduate degree is designed to help those who are interested in the management side of the sport and recreation industry.
There are two specializations available for this masteral program. These are Sport Administration and Outdoor Recreation Management. Liberty University adds MS in Sports Management that takes 36 hours to finish. There are two tracks (thesis and non-thesis) available for those who are interested in the program. Twenty-one hours are dedicated to the core classes and 9 hours on instructions related to the concentration chosen. The remaining 6 hours are then dedicated on internship classes.
Students who are qualified to take the classes are those who hold a bachelor’s degree in sport management or any related discipline. Those who are accepted will learn many essential skills and knowledge regarding sport management. Example of courses touch on social issues of sport management, ethics, legal matters, economics, marketing, research, and many others.