Oral Robertson University?
12 4 2007The current news being reported is that Pat Robertson, founder of CBN, The 700 Club and Regent University is interested in “options” for ties between the two universities. ORU is widely regarded as a feeder school for Regent’s graduate programs.
Pat Robertson and Oral Roberts University have a long-standing relationship. ORU’s O.W. Coburn School of Law closed in 1986 and its law library, faculty and students were transferred to Regent University (which was then called CBN University). ORU had trouble attaining accreditation from the American Bar Association, which Regent eventually did receive in 1996.
As a media pioneer, Pat Robertson started the Family Channel in 1977 as an alternative to secular programming. It was later sold to Fox in 1997 for $1.9 billion dollars. In 2001, it changed hands again and was sold to Disney. It now bears the moniker of the ABC Family Channel. Regardless of ownership, The 700 Club must air three times a day though a perpetually inherited contract agreement.
Robertson has numerous businesses, including a mining operation in Liberia and an oil refinery company. Regent University reportedly carries an endowment of around $267 million.
I cringed when I read the above; we just got rid of crazy, we don’t need any more, especially from a man who tried to order a hurricane back to sea. What we need right now in this, um, “transitional period” is someone who is calm and noncontroversial and will not causing more crazy to circle ORU. Of course I want Robertson to have strong beliefs; I just don’t want him to use those as a license to make himself and everyone he claims to speak for look like a psychopath. Is that so much to ask?
Love the title of this post! Clever.
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As if we weren’t embarrassed enough as alumni. We need that fruitcake like we need another… fruitcake.