{"id":342,"date":"2009-05-26T23:21:07","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T04:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2009-05-26T23:21:07","modified_gmt":"2009-05-27T04:21:07","slug":"falwell-jr-will-meet-with-lu-dems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=342","title":{"rendered":"Falwell Jr. will meet with LU Dems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"article_font\">Members of Liberty University\u2019s College Dems will have a meeting today with Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr. hoping it will lead to their reinstatement as an accepted campus group.<\/p>\n<p>Falwell said the club would need to align itself with a pro-life wing of the Democratic Party before Liberty could restore privileges, such as use of formal meeting rooms and the university logo on its communications.<\/p>\n<p>But even without those privileges, the club members can meet informally in \u201ccommon areas\u201d such as the student center or cafeteria.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting-on-campus issue seemed to revolve around how strictly the university applies its conduct code for unofficial clubs.<\/p>\n<p>Falwell sent e-mails to several students over the weekend telling them the Democratic club could still meet on campus, provided it did not use the university\u2019s name as part of its identity.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic clubs have existed on campus without formal recognition for most of the university\u2019s 37 years.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Liberty University\u2019s College Dems will have a meeting today with Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr. hoping it will lead to their reinstatement as an&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=342\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Falwell Jr. will meet with LU Dems<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-5w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}