Liberty U. to add roller coaster and year-round ski slope?

[underpants]

http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-04-10-0235.html

Is a roller-coaster in Liberty U.'s future?

LYNCHBURG -- A mini roller-coaster and a year-round ski slope with fake snow are among the recreational options Liberty University is considering for an anticipated 5,000 new students over the next five years.

Liberty plans to spend more than $10 million on recreational facilities in the next several years, said Lee Beaumont, directory of auxiliary services.
"College isn't all about the classroom," Beaumont said yesterday. "It's an experience."

Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr. is considering a student center with nightly movies, games and other activities.

"Liberty doesn't have a whole lot of places for students to just sit, watch a ball game and socialize," he said.

The school plans to add a paintball facility, nine intramural sports fields, a 2.5-mile cross-country loop, and an indoor soccer complex with two fields over the next several years.

The paintball arena would likely be the first project completed, Beaumont said, with an expected opening in three to four months.

“We're going to have some amenities that very few colleges have," Beaumont said. "We're trying to offer as much as we can for the students to do, and really just enhance the quality of life for our school."

[hisownpetard]

1. This is from "The Onion," right? And what about the rifle-range they're adding?

[underpants]

3. No but close

teh Richmond Times-Dispatch

The difference?

The Onion is TRYING to be funny

Seriously you should check out the T'D's "From Wire Reports" they only bear a resemblance to actual events in that the name are usually spelled the same.

[libnnc]

2. Skiing for Jebus?

:crazy:

[enki23]

4. beats the hell outta drinking, having sex, and getting an education

will the mini rollercoaster be burkha friendly?

[underpants]

7. You must be THIS TALL to ride

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Meaning that the Liberty U students aren't given approval to leave campus

for more secular forms of recreation. (In their handbook, they get demerits for going to the Lynchburg multiplex, for example.) This new proposal is to give the kids divertisements under the aegis of the University's narrow view of christianity.

[Muttocracy]

9. I was about to say, there were 2 large movie theatres within a couple of miles a few years ago! nt

[JHB]

6. Will they name it for Liberty U's savior?

No, not Jesus or Jerry, I mean the guy who bailed out the University when its finances tanked.

"High Father" Sun Myung Moon.

[IntravenousDemilo]

8. Why do these stories always forget to put the quotation marks around "University"?

I can't imagine a degree from there being worth a plug nickel.

[LeftHander]

10. They cut all the science programs to pay for it....

WeeeeeeeeeEEeeeEEEEeeeeEEEe.......

Edjamuhcatin' fer JeeeSAAAHHHSSSSSA

[walldude]

11. So they going to build that stuff using actual science or Creationism?

Are they going to pray for fake snow?

[Muttocracy]

13. They used to have a nifty Creation Science Museum;

not sure if they still do. They can probably check the NWS forecast and pray for snow just at the right time when it would have fallen on Candler's Mountain anyway.

[KamaAina]

12. From where might the $$$ for this be coming?

*cough*Moonies*cough*

[DCKit]

14. "...an anticipated 5,000 new students over the next five years."

Do they honestly believe we're going to give them the opportunity to staff the DOJ and other gubmint agencies again so quickly?

And no, the history department - the two guys who said * will go down as the Bestest pResident Ever - was not downsized to fund the bemusement park: They actually drew increased funding to the tune of $6,666,666 from an anonymous neocon, chickenhawk (but thoroughly Xian) donor.

[underpants]

16. Well Liberty got it's a** kicked by Pat's Regent U in Va. Beach

the rivalry to implement Biblical law in place of the Constitution is intense.

[LibertyLover]

15. Just one more way to keep their students

under their control at all times. Sick.