Pepperdine WBB Players Suing School

[cockhrnleghrn]

Bob



Bob Jones dropped the inter-racial dating rule in 2000

So progressive of them...

 

[DobbsRover2]

It is important nowadays to at least somewhat separate one's perception of Bob Jones (Sr or Jr), and the school that is run by another younger son. The school has at least started to dabble in interscholastic sports (something that was an anathema in the past) and has tried to distance itself (with apologies) from certain former policies that blew up when Bush visited the school in 2000 and the media attention and the nation got reminded about what school policies were then. Bob Jones III is still saying things like the head of state may not be the religion he says he is, so he is very open to controversy, but Steve Jones and the school seem committed to moving more into the mainstream. Perhaps some would consider that a bad thing though.

 

[DobbsRover2]

So progressive of them...

One thing you can say for BJU is that it did take the lead in forcing through rulings and changes involving the exclusion of blacks from private colleges. True, it was BJU's militant efforts to overturn efforts against tax exemptions for segregated schools that led to these changes, but they would probably not have happened for a long time afterward if not for BJU's militancy.

 

[DobbsRover2]

Pepperdine does have an LGBT club on campus, though its sole approved actions is to discuss legal issues relating to LGBT questions, so presumably that could also mean fighting gay marriage laws. Like Baylor, all s-e-x-u-a-l activity outside of the marriage of a husband and wife is forbidden, so the school can say it is not just both straight and gay action if you don't have a marriage license. Not sure what the school administration would rule about married gay students at this point if it happened there, but it's hard to see it happening. Again they stress the husband-wife connection repeatedly in that part of the handbook.

The school seems to be in transition on LGBT issues, denying students to organize for LGBT orientation clubs but also recently announcing a scholarship for LGBT service and trying to distance itself from the actions of faculty that have worked for anti LGBT causes.

 

[cockhrnleghrn]

It is important nowadays to at least somewhat separate one's perception of Bob Jones (Sr or Jr), and the school that is run by another younger son. The school has at least started to dabble in interscholastic sports (something that was an anathema in the past) and has tried to distance itself (with apologies) from certain former policies that blew up when Bush visited the school in 2000 and the media attention and the nation got reminded about what school policies were then. Bob Jones III is still saying things like the head of state may not be the religion he says he is, so he is very open to controversy, but Steve Jones and the school seem committed to moving more into the mainstream. Perhaps some would consider that a bad thing though.

I live in South Carolina, though thankfully not in that part of the state. BJU has made very slight changes and they've probably now moved into the early 1960's, culturally-speaking.