A Sea Of Red

Liberty University Pledges ‘Good Clean Fun’ at New Sports Park


Officials at Liberty plan to build a sports complex on a 5,000-acre mountain in Lynchburg, Va.

By ERINN MORGAN
Published: December 12, 2007

Students at Liberty University, founded in 1971 by the televangelist Jerry Falwell, are not allowed to watch R-rated movies, drink alcohol or dance. But soon their campus in Lynchburg, Va., may feature downhill mountain-biking trails, zip-lines and year-round skiing and snowboarding slopes.

Falwell’s son, Jerry Falwell Jr., the chancellor at Liberty, has announced plans for the development of a sports park on the 5,000-acre, university-owned Liberty Mountain that flanks the campus. It will be open to students and the public.

“Good, clean fun is what it is,” Falwell Jr. said. “If you ask most students, they’d say it’s a cultural shock to come here. They have a curfew, a dress code and have to go to chapel and church. It’s a challenge for us to make it a fun, positive experience. These recreational opportunities help keep them focused in the right direction.”

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so alumni don't have to pay the admission charge right? right?

I love this genius...

“Downhill mountain bikers like to chug beer and cuss and have tattoos,” said Brandon Reynolds, a mechanic at Bikes Unlimited, a cycling shop in Lynchburg. “I don’t know if you want to pull that riffraff into your college. The conservative kid from Iowa who comes to school there isn’t prepared for that world.”

First he makes a sweeping generalization about the types of folks who enjoy downhill mountain biking rather than recognizing that perhaps the bikers he knows are the ones that are like that. Then he levels off the charge that conservative kids couldn't possibly be prepared to handle beer-swilling, foul mouthed inked up mountain bikers. Please. Just because we're conservative doesn't mean we're sheltered. I know those kids are here, but I don't think that's the majority of us by any stretch. Besides, a lot of us have beer-swilling, foul mouthed, inked up bikers in our families who are even more conservative than we are. They just ride a different kind of bike.

by the way nowhere in the liberty way does it say students can not dance...it says students can not attend I dance

Sounds like it will be a fun time--for the LU family as well as the Lynchburg community.

El Scorcho wrote:I love this genius...

“Downhill mountain bikers like to chug beer and cuss and have tattoos,” said Brandon Reynolds, a mechanic at Bikes Unlimited, a cycling shop in Lynchburg. “I don’t know if you want to pull that riffraff into your college. The conservative kid from Iowa who comes to school there isn’t prepared for that world.”

First he makes a sweeping generalization about the types of folks who enjoy downhill mountain biking rather than recognizing that perhaps the bikers he knows are the ones that are like that. Then he levels off the charge that conservative kids couldn't possibly be prepared to handle beer-swilling, foul mouthed inked up mountain bikers. Please. Just because we're conservative doesn't mean we're sheltered. I know those kids are here, but I don't think that's the majority of us by any stretch. Besides, a lot of us have beer-swilling, foul mouthed, inked up bikers in our families who are even more conservative than we are. They just ride a different kind of bike.

that's a great picture. this should be really cool once the park is completed.

thepostman wrote:by the way nowhere in the liberty way does it say students can not dance...it says students can not attend I dance

If you are dancing are you not at a dance?

No. I can dance at home, at work, in my dorm room, apartment, etc.

No. Some RA tried to write some girls up for dancing at a football game. They were attending a football game, not a dance. They just happened to be dancing at the football game.

the RAs that do stuff like that just make make you shake your head. Were they grinding it out on the dudes behind them or something?

jcmanson wrote:No. I can dance at home, at work, in my dorm room, apartment, etc.

And yet, by virtue of the fact that dancing is taking place, you are at a dance.

Personally, I attend a dance in my car on the way to work every morning.

dance

noun
1. a party of people assembled for dancing
2. a party for social dancing

jcmanson wrote:dance

noun
1. a party of people assembled for dancing
2. a party for social dancing

Oh, Good Lord! You actually broke out a dictionary?

"A dance" is a code phrase for "a club" (that's the disco kind of club, for you old hags). That's always been my understanding.

RagingTireFire wrote:

jcmanson wrote:dance

noun
1. a party of people assembled for dancing
2. a party for social dancing

Oh, Good Lord! You actually broke out a dictionary?

No, that came out of my head.

jcmanson wrote:

RagingTireFire wrote:

jcmanson wrote:dance

noun
1. a party of people assembled for dancing
2. a party for social dancing

Oh, Good Lord! You actually broke out a dictionary?

No, that came out of my head.

I think that's actually worse.

I was an english major

El Scorcho wrote:"A dance" is a code phrase for "a club" (that's the disco kind of club, for you old hags). That's always been my understanding.

yeah...thats how i always saw it...i mean this past weekend there was some kind of salsa thing going on in the schilling put on by some school sponsered organization....so dancing must be ok....

there was a whole lot of dancing in the living christmas tree

That is not put on by LU though.

may as well be

one of you guys needs to change avatars, because I thought it was one dude arguing with himself.

JDUB wrote:there was a whole lot of dancing in the living christmas tree

Thats "choreography" according to the deans...

thepostman wrote:this past weekend there was some kind of salsa thing going on in the schilling put on by some school sponsered organization....so dancing must be ok....

I remember when people were instructed not to swing dance at a Ws concert back in the day. The band were put out by how ridiculous that was and vowed never to play LU again. That was back when people were starting to take swing dancing lessons, a practice that was prohibited soon after.

It's good to know things are becoming a little more reasonable.