News Releases (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
NEWBERG, Ore. – George Fox University professors Kathleen Gathercoal and Beth LaForce will present a fall faculty lecture at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 7, in the Hoover Academic Building’s Room 105 on the university’s Newberg campus. Gathercoal and LaForce will present a research project begun by Sherri Schulke, a coworker and friend who died from cancer [...]
Progressive Values (Free subscription) | yesterday
In an ugly act of racial and political intimidation, four supporters sympathetic to John McCain who are students at the the small Christian George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon, confessed to hanging a life-sized Obama effigy from a tree at the entrance of the college with the words, "Act 6 Reject" scrawled on the figure. The Act 6 program is a minority scholarship program. The goal of those...
Raw Story (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
Four students at George Fox University in Newberg confessed to hanging an effigy of U.S. Sen. Barack Obama from a tree on campus and were suspended for up to a year, the university president announced Tuesday...
On The record Magazine (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
Officials at a Christian university in Oregon announced Tuesday that four students have confessed to hanging a likeness of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama from a tree on campus. A statement from George Fox University said the penalties against the four students were “immediate long-term suspension and public service.” The school cited federal privacy rules [...]
Stereohyped (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
Four students at the Quaker-founded George Fox University have confessed to hanging a cardboard likeness of Barack Obama from a tree with the sign "Act Six Reject." Act Six is a minority and low-income scholarship program in the Pacific Northwest. Officials at the Oregon school say the students' penalty included "immediate long-term suspension and public [...]
Going to the Mat (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
Four Oregon college students have been sanctioned by their school for hanging a cardboard cutout of Barack Obama from a campus tree. OK. Now before anyone gets all bent out of shape, George Fox University is a private college and they can mete out punishment as they see fit for breaches of the student code of conduct (not that I can find one on the school's website). The school has handed out...
ABC News (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
FONT SIZE Four college students have confessed to hanging a cardboard effigy of Barack Obama from a tree on their Oregon campus last week, school officials said today. Students at Oregon's George Fox University gather at an assembly a day after a cardboard cutout of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., was found hanging from a tree on campus.(Courtesy KATU TV)The George Fox University students...
ColoradoPols.com - Front Page (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
Probably not what Jesus would do, as the AP reports: A Christian university [in Oregon] said Tuesday it had punished four students who confessed to hanging a likeness of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama from a tree on campus. George Fox University broke the news to students and staff at an all-campus meeting. About 1,000 people attended, said university spokesman Rob Felton. In...
News Releases (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
NEWBERG, Ore. – Following an investigation by George Fox University administrators, four students have confessed to being involved in the hanging of a cardboard cutout of Senator Barack Obama from a tree on the university academic quad. The cutout, which was attached around the neck by fishing line, was discovered and immediately removed by a custodian [...]
U.S. News (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
George Fox University suspended students admitted to hanging a cardboard cutout from a tree last week.
BuffaloPundit (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
The first paragraph of this pretty much says it all: A Christian university in Oregon said Tuesday it has punished four students who confessed to hanging a likeness of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama from a tree on campus. George Fox University broke the news to students and staff Tuesday afternoon at an all-campus meeting. About [...]
Moldova.org (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
Four George Fox University students have been suspended for hanging presidential candidate Barack Obama in effigy, the Oregon school's president said Tuesday.The four students will be kicked out of the 3,355-student Christian school for up to year after confessing they hung the cardboard cutout of the Democratic presidential nominee from a tree on campus last week, The (Portland) Oregonian reported....
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
George Fox University says four students have been punished for hanging a likeness of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama from a tree on campus. The university said in a statement today the penalties are "immediate long-term suspension and public service." The school says the four confessed to their involvement.
Sweetness & Light (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
From an outraged Associated Press: 4 students in Ore. confess to hanging Obama cutout 9/30/2008By RYAN KOST NEWBERG, Ore. (AP) — George Fox University says four students have been punished for hanging a likeness of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama from a tree on campus last week. The Christian school broke the news to students and staff [...]
Why Am I Not Surprised? (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
Somebody oughta tell the students at George Fox University -- a so-called "Christian" school in Newberg, Oregon -- that, by the best estimations we have based on science, Jesus Christ probably looked very similar to the computer-generated drawing on the right. This would mean that when they hung the effigy of Barack Obama in a tree with an insulting sign related to race attached, they more than...
