{"id":360,"date":"2009-06-19T22:26:32","date_gmt":"2009-06-20T03:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2009-06-19T22:26:32","modified_gmt":"2009-06-20T03:26:32","slug":"lu-dem-club-needs-new-sponsor-and-president-is-transferring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=360","title":{"rendered":"LU DEM Club needs new sponsor and President is transferring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"article_font\">The halted Liberty University College Democrats club must find a new sponsor if it wants to regain official recognition from the college after the former was founded convicted last month.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"article_font\">Maria Childress had been convicted of several<br \/>\nmisdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct and trespassing.<\/p>\n<p>Childress received a 60-day sentence, with all but four days suspended. Childress said she was required to serve two days in jail, which she completed last weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"article_font\"> The charges stemmed from a domestic dispute with her ex-father-in-law over visitation with her daughter.<\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"article_font\"><br \/>\nAs of Friday, the school had not yet determined whether Childress will retain her position as secretary of the honors program.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Diaz, president of the club,\u00a0 announced tonight he was resigning as club president and transferring from Liberty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"article_font\">Last month, LU withdrew its recognition of the club because it supported the Democratic Party\u2019s pro-choice and pro-gay marriage rights platform and candidates <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The halted Liberty University College Democrats club must find a new sponsor if it wants to regain official recognition from the college after the former&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=360\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LU DEM Club needs new sponsor and President is transferring<\/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-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-5O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","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=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}