After 39 years of ambivalent relations with smoker's wall, PBA officials have decided to withhold its contract for the upcoming 2008 fall semester.
"It has worked for everything else we wanted to get rid of," said a vice president during a game of Risk with other administrators.
On Wednesday, Mike Weavis, Dean of Students, sent an email to PBA employees expressing concern over "the behavior at the smoker's wall," asking "in a confidential manner," whether it should be moved to another place on campus or removed altogether. After a three minute meeting that evening however, officials reached their conclusion.
"We could have offered a short two or three year contract," said Weavis, "but it was just easier this way." Besides, we definitely don't want that thing getting tenure or anything."
With bulldozers ready, officials gave smoker's wall a first and only chance.
"Sign the statement of faith document and prove that you have graduated from Regent University in the past 18 minutes or leave," said the administrators.
Being an inanimate object, it could not sign, nor could it attend college, still smoker's wall had no choice but to look for another home.
"I had great relationships here," said smoker's wall as it nestled against a fresh cigarette butt. "It's a shame that PBA doesn't see that."
Fortunately, Gardner Webb has agreed to take the wall, designating a spot for it outside the numerous former PBA professors' offices. It will be used as the center piece in a snow-tipped eucalyptus garden.
Unfortunately, smoker's wall is not the only thing being pushed away from PBA.
Already witnessing the resignation of Anne Brackin, the School of Communication and Media will soon be experiencing the departure of two more professors.
Among those is Denise McGilldertron, one of three journalism professors at PBA. To make up for her absence, PBA has allocated several college algebra professors to teach the photo journalism classes.
"Calculator, newspaper; potato, potato," said Duane Humbles as he ripped the journalism page from the PBA catalog.
As news of smoker's wall spreads, several other structures around campus begin to wonder about their future.
The old library was found to be discussing views contrary to those held by the school of Ministry. PBA had no choice but to condemn the building.
The tree in front of Weyenburg was warned that if it did not clean up the mess of berries left in the parking lot, it was next.
65 comments:
so pba really is doing away with smoker's wall?
i never thought they would have the sheer audacity to go through with it.
Wait, McGill's leaving already? The Comm School has a higher turnover rate that the women's shoe department at Macys!
Does anyone know who the other professor is?
How can they get rid of smoker's wall when it's not on campus property?
I wondered the same thing and then was told that they are thinking of instituting a ban on smoking within 500 or so feet of campus. "Problem" solved.
It will be interesting to watch saftey and security glare at non-PBA pedestrians smoking within the 500 ft of campus. PBA I'm beginning to hate you more and more.
I wonder how the journalism majors feel about this?
The official e-mail seeking faculty/staff input on Smoker's Wall. Names changed intentionally to keep with unspoken Bacon Policy.
Good afternoon colleagues,
Over the last few weeks we have been discussing the behavior at the smoker’s wall (across from the Lassiter Student Center). At this time Dr. Swirly and I would like to hear the staff’s perspective of smoker’s wall: is it good, is it bad, has it changed over the course of the year(s), should we keep it or not, should we move it to another part of campus, etc.
Please feel free to share your thoughts with me and I will pull together the collective thinking of the staff in a confidential manner and share them with Dr. Swirly.
Thank you and have a great day,
Ike DOOMis(at hand)
Did the owners of the apartment building sell to PBA? I knew that they were not going to, unless they sell, PBA cannot remove smoker's wall.
Is McGill really leaving
As was said earlier, if they put a ban on smoking within 500 feet of campus property they can effectively elliminate smoker's wall. If only SGA was busy with stuff that mattered instead of planning a beach party this wouldn't happen.
Easy does it, student government didn't do anything wrong. they are not the one's behind all this.
This will be interesting to watch unfold.
so funny! love it bacon love it
I hope they're at least getting the apartment owner's/residents' and the funeral home's approval on this. Maybe the Norton too while we're at it.
I know this was meant as a hoot, and it is except that it is another rip in the fabric of the school as yet more professors leave. Is Mary Ann Searle really going to teach communications? Seriously, I heard she is taking over while they find replacement staff. What is the deal there?
Smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette!
Puff, puff, puff until you smoke yourself to death.
Tell St. Peter at the Golden Gate
That you hate to make him wait,
But you just gotta have another cigarette!
-Tex Williams (1947)
Once again we see the problem of satire mixed with news and no one knows which is which. This is very sad for people who care about PBA and Christian higher education.
There needs to be a section of the Bacon that actually just reproduces texts, real emails, Beacon stories, press releases, etc.
I hope Denise likes going back to Gardner-Webb....Speaking of Webb, when you get there tell Joe I said hello....
I second the last anon post on some all-truth sections....we love the Bacon in the free world but with the Beacon no longer online sometimes its hard to know where some of this comes from....
Side note- for you 'fish on campus that smoke...(and I'm not supporting smoking but just throwing out an idea) measure 500 feet in random locations at the edge of campus (don't forget the new athletic campus too) and leave a mark so people know its safe to stand outside the 500 feet. Too easy.
Good idea...as soon as I'm back from Spring Break you'll see me near campus with a tape measure. If anyone enquires as to why I shall simply answer back: "insurance"
rumors are flying. I have heard that it is 25 feet from campus 500 feet seems exaggerated. Instead of trying to measure 500 feet from campus with a tape measure, you can go to Harbor Freight Tools in Lake Worth and get one of those wheels on a stick to measure. If they don't have them, Home Depot should but HD will probably charge twice as much. If it is 25 feet, a tape measure will do. Make sure you make your mark with something that is not permanent (like spray paint or marker) Chalk will work. Remember the spot and come back after rain and mark again.
When will people learn that bans do not work? Did the 18th Amendment work effectively to end Demon Alcohol's grip on the USA? No! It made small time criminals into multi-millionaires. Alcohol still made it into the USA. People distilled their own and the whole thing was driven underground. By banning alcohol, the USA made a small problem into a force too big to fight against. If they do manage to get rid of smoker's wall, it will be the worst thing that they could do to themselves. Instead of being able to monitor the "behavior" at smoker's wall from the 2nd floor of the Lassiter Ivory Tower, smokers will be driven out of sight where the "behavior" won't be seen, can't be controlled and will become worse. If this does actually happen, smokers need to organize. There are some brilliant minds at smoker's wall. Band together, use your collective brain power and overcome. Just remember, you have to stay within the rules to beat them at their own game. Loopholes are the Achilles Heel.
Smoker on a stick has a good point. If we use anything permanent they'll say we are defacing property or something. Wal-Mart Run! I'm getting Sidewalk Chalk in bulk.
If Anne Brackin resigned, why is her name back up on myPBA for classes?
as an alumna, i was delighted to discover this site...to quote one of my fellow alumni, "i wish i had thought of this when we were there!"
When we there, actually, the faculty were amazing and the liberal arts ideals were upheld without compromising the christian heritage. i had those phenomenal professors who are now gone, and i feel utterly blessed to have attended GWU for my masters degrees and to be able to keep in contact with the professors who i came to consider as formative mentors and friends.
re: the smoker's wall...isn't it almost like ridding oneself of a defining mark - a crooked front tooth, an unsightly mole, a misshapen yet conscpicuous birthmark? how can the smoker's wall go? i never cuddled up to it with any cigarette butts, but i think it is (was?) a reminder of the fact that there are people who have different values and ideals - people who are just as worthy and just as in need of love and respect, no matter what life choices they make.
Lydia Johnson Gillespie, '02
I agree w/ the alumnus before me. I don't ever go to the smoker's wall, I get sick from the smell, but everyone is different, no point in pushing people away who make different choices, aren't they a part of Christ's body as much as me.
As an alum who used to be in Student Government, I feel the need to defend them.
Unfortunately, while I was in SG's executive cabinet, Dr. Searle fooled us all, got us to trust her, then stabbed us in the back. SG has lost its office, and NOW, according to a current SG member whom I will keep anonymous, old president Corts' crusade banner has been taken up by Dr. Clark - to get rid of Daniel E. Goodman's name on the Professor of the Year award once and for all. While I was there, they pressured us and we refused to change it.
SG has been threatened with loss of all funding for next year if they do not vote to permanently remove Goodman's name from the award. SG has a fight ahead of it.
Regardless of who is president of SG, please remember that their hands are tied in many ways, and right now, they are just fighting to survive and become as influential as they were before Clark's regime silenced student representation.
Go PBA SG!
Did she just use the word regime? I had a thought today of how to keep the Smoker's Wall....some one needs to find a donor to sponsor it....That seems to keep things around a little longer at PBA....I can see it now "Phillip Morris Smoker's Wall" Or "American Cancer Society Smoker's Wall" I say this of course in jest like my 500 feet and then smoke comment earlier. I guess my point-Is it really that big a deal? Doesn't the Administration have way more to do than to waste time on a piece of property they don't even own? Furthermore, the signs say "smoke free campus" campus being the defining word....and that wall is not on campus so its not like the signs are inaccurate they just don't cover that part of the street.
One more time.
I really think the Bacon could do alumni a service by posting a list of faculty who have departed in, oh, the past four years. Then update. Crucial, factual info.
I agree - Bacon, please do post a list of faculty who have left in the past few years!
I was Political Science and Pre-law (the black sheep at PBA because they aren't ministry or church music majors LOL ). I hear almost all of my old profs from Arts and Sciences are gone - and that is a shame because all of them truly were amazing.
I am in law school now at FSU. When I told Kloba I wanted to be a lawyer, he said "great, all we need is more lawyers." Good ol' PBA - always so eager to put forth respectable professionals in the world - oh wait, I mean church...
And yes...I did use the word "regime" because as long as Drs. Clark, Kloba, and Searle continue to act like Oliver Cromwell, that is what it is.
I love PBA dearly, but I watched student representation crumble between the years of 2002-2005.
There goes my favortie tree on campus... What the crap.
whoa, more than a week since the last Bacon blog! I don't know if I can take it!
Bacon eds. are on Spring break, like everybody else.
I'm sure they will have a nice fresh story complaining about the horrible injustices of a system that doesn't tolerate people breaking its rules asap.
and i'm sure the article will have a ridiculous amount of comments made by sassy christian leadership girls who still use scrunchies and pull their backpacks around like suitcases and and hang out in their ra's room till curfew (that they made for themselves) listening to their complaints because they have no life and then they'll go back to their rooms and leave "their opinions" with the bacon.
except for the part about "backpacks like suitcases" that scenario could be PBA at anytime in the last 20 years....as much as things change....that part never has....have a good spring break, we look forward to the remaining months of the beacon before it goes dark for summer.
i think you meant bacon. we look forward to reading the bacon. we will use the beacon for our bird cages and dog kennels. except for the comics. those are sooooooo funny
i heart john maxwell:
You certainly miss guessed who wrote the previous comment.
I'm sure there will be many more comments from jackasses who shouldn't have bothered coming to PBA in the first place and are upset about having to live under rules. They complain and complain about not having free speech and not being able to do what they want but if you voice an opinion that they don't agree with, they're the first ones to attack. They all think that everyone in the administration is evil and stupid and everyone else in the school other than the eight kids who actively socialize at smokers wall is "vapid" and "judgmental" just because they beg to differ on a few points.
Just exactly who do you think you are to tell someone else where they can leave their opinions anyways?
The former anonymous must be the guy who writes the cartoons. haha
i can positively tell you that S has been fighting this from the second the first rumor started to spread. what was originally a lie that said it was all false, that nothing was going to changed quickly turned into a refusal to let SG (or any PBA student) have any say in the matter at all. SG was told, basically, your "opinion" doesnt matter and we will make our own disicion. shocker. rest assured that SG has not given up, but without ANY le-way cannot do anything other than voice "opinions" that the nzi doesnt give a rats ass about and never has.
Then SG needs to get the word out to the general populous so that this doesn't just get slipped in under the radar like everything else does.
The simple fact of the matter is that the site does not help PBA's image, and PBA has to actually protect that. At the moment, in the Christian world PBA is known primarily as a school for party kids who don't care about academics. Simply put, that is more than a slight irritation to those that fund PBA.
Now, before anyone says it, the bulk of students at PBA receive large portions of their tuition from their parents. The students themselves are rarely able to afford this school by themselves. So, it really rests more with the parents as well as the kind folk willing to donate a few million here and there for things like the Warren Library. And they seem to want PBA to be a "fine, upstanding Christian University with a focus on academics and not avarice". Or something. Further, this past semester especially had an enormous amount of suspensions, and it's been circulating that they were drug testing people who seemed to frequent Smoker's Wall and/or where involved in facebook groups that had something to do with Smoker's Wall. Unlike previous rumors of this kind of thing, this time the administration isn't really denying it very much...
Also, this issue seems to fly right above the heads of SG.
Well Student "Development" is on the offensive. Everyone check your PBA e-mail addresses for the survey asking the student body what should be done with smokers wall. Maybe the administration should read the comments on this story to get an idea of what the students have to say. Outside of this being a money/image issue (two VERY important Christian principles) another issue is that certain members of the administration have to walk past smokers wall to get to their offices since they took over the rinker parking lot.
Just did the smokers wall survey. Everyone should go take it...NOW.
"They complain and complain about not having free speech and not being able to do what they want but if you voice an opinion that they don't agree with, they're the first ones to attack. They all think that everyone in the administration is evil and stupid and everyone else in the school other than the eight kids who actively socialize at smokers wall is "vapid" and "judgmental" just because they beg to differ on a few points."
Yeah, complaining about guaranteed rights, like freedom of speech, that thousands of American soldiers have bled and died for is just petty. Students at PBA should know better than to voice their opinion. Actually I think that is part of the required class Freedom in American Society. I distinctly remember Dr. Raeder telling us that we should never open our mouths if we feel that something is wrong. We should just accept it and pretend it doesn't exist. They don't differ on a few points they are at complete odds. This attack on smokers shows exactly how hypocritical they are. If "good" Christians aren't supposed to smoke because our bodies are a temple shouldn't they also be in good shape instead of pear shaped like certain members of the administration? Da Bears hits the nail on the head... this isn't about behavior or even smoking. It IS all about image and money. They don't want parents of prospective students and donors to realize that things are screwed up here at PBA. After all, why else would it be such a big priority to keep the bacon from being mentioned on PBA's wiki page?
How about instead of saying that the administration is on the attack we say that they're finally listening to reason? For the last two years the Bacon has consistently beaten up the administration for making decisions without thinking of the students. Now that the administration makes those steps to ask students what they think, they get beat up by the Bacon.
What does the Bacon really want the administration to do, listen or be a punching bag? Sometimes a wonder.
By the way, 45 comments made by people with fake names does not constitute the voice of the students on this issue.
Das ist gut, I think you missed something huge here.
Your attendance at PBA is entirely voluntary. Now why don't you go back, read what you just wrote, compare it to that and just think about it for a minute?
Amen, "Who's the Hypocrite", amen
Hypocrite, Oliver (Cromwell),
How can you ridicule people for using fake names when you do the same. It has been said time and time again, the reason people use false names on here is because the students fear the administration. We all saw what happened to Aaron LeGore last year for handing out fliers in a gorilla suit. I think that one example is enough to show the character of the administration and her henchmen. After the under the table stuff that the administration has done in the past, you would have the student body blindly trust a survey sent by one of her lap dogs? When the administration shows that they can be trusted, the students will trust them. Until that time, everything they/you do will be second guessed.
Oliver,
Yes, my attendance here is voluntary, I know that. So is your attendance/employment. In the time that I have been at PBA, I have not broken any of the rules of the navigator and make it a point not to. I am voicing my opinion , same as you. Opinions are still allowed right? Or did she make a rule doing away with those too. If you want to start a pseudo-christian fascist regime, I hear Waco, TX has had an opening for a few years. The smokers' wall is NOT PBA property. PBA has legal authority to do anything about it. They can put some stupid addendum into the Navigator to make it against the "community values" but that would be wrong. They stated that the problem is behavior. If the problem is behavior, they can deal with the behavior the way they do with all other behavioral problems at PBA. They COULD be honest and say, "We are afraid people will think bad things about PBA because 1% of the students smoke." Or "We don't want to loose money because Dr. Clarke is bent on putting in a swimming pool and we are already in debt up to our eyes." If enrollment is down, it has nothing to do with smokers' wall. It has everything to do with people making PBA look less than an educational environment on the internet (http://www.apple.com/itunes/store/podcasts.html
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"Your attendance at PBA is entirely voluntary."
The day that this school stops being run with a "if you don't like it get out" attitude, is the day that good things can start happening here.
"Mo' money, mo' problems"
Would you prefer that PBA had a, "whoever is loudest and complains the most gets their way," attitude? Just stick your finger in the air and see which way the wind is blowing huh?
Ever heard of a happy medium? PBA doesn't have to run with either of those attitudes.
"Stuff on my desk":
The complaint was that PBA had somehow violated the Free Speech rights of the students by not catering to a very small minority in the population. You're taking it way out of context and it's pretty stupid. First, you complain that your rights have been violated. If that was the case, lawsuits would already be flying and people might even take Josh Leonard seriously. Then you attempt to change the subject by just babbling and complaining and trying to tie in other things that don't really effect the issue. Enrollment isn't actually down. In fact, there is currently a problem with not having enough housing. When I started at PBA, I actually knew several upperclassmen and Pharmacy students still living in the dorms, four years later, not so much.
I'm a friend of Aaron's and was right there when it happened. I love him to death, but he wasn't just passing out fliers. When asked to stop he started acting like a smartass.
It doesn't matter if the wall is PBA property, PBA is more than well within it's rights to simply ban smoking all together. Also, there is a good reason for why they might do that.
Which is exactly what most Christian schools do.
Also, most of those rules are for insurance purposes, genius. Most schools have them. I went to UF for a semester as well and they couldn't have candles in their dorms either, along with a long line of other even stranger things.
Also, the big gripe about Smoker's Wall isn't that it spreads the idea that everyone smokes. Although that is one issue. Recently, it seems to have just served as a meeting grounds for certain people who seem to strongly identify themselves with both Smoker's Wall and "getting rid of rats", as seen by the Facebook group "Thorns of PBA". The word on the grapevine is that this caused "random drug tests" to go flying.
Finally, "He said she said", that's not even an argument. The school does take into account the opinions of the students, quite heavily in fact. However, most of the student body at PBA heavily disagrees with the typical "Smoker's Wall" opinion and the school itself wants to aim it's marketing at a very specific demographic.
Ironically enough, I know for an absolute fact that if it weren't for Mary Ann Searle, who actually would prefer to kind of mediate between the two extremes, all drinking and smoking would probably be entirely banned for all students by now, regardless of age and location. She's actually not very mean at all and if you don't believe me, just walk up to her and start talking to her. Despite having upwards of 300 emails a day (that's not a joke), I have never seen her not have at least some time to talk to a student, regardless of how stupid that students questions were.
This includes the time where she was stuck in a quagmire of a debate over the direction the nursing program would take, which is a decision that could mean the raising or lowering of the entire school's rank and possibly millions of dollars in the future, and took time to actually talk to Josh Leonard about his campaign against the horrible cruelties of low quality lunch meats, where he actually just really insulted her a few times and then stormed out.
You see, there are two sides to every story. Mary Ann Searle actually isn't a bad person, by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, you kind of have to work pretty hard to piss her, or the administration off. The administration is handling some massive, huge issues right now. Two extremely important and expensive programs, Pharmacy and Nursing, are currently in their infancy. An ROTC program is in the wings. A crapload is about to be invested into more scientific and medical programs. PBA is trying to sort out it's identity, the decisions made now will impact the school for decades to come, not just a handful of angry smokers, potheads and drinkers for the next four years or so. Massive changes are being brought in. The point in me saying this is that the administration is changing a lot of things and they want to change the school entirely into a "bona fide" Christian University, with stricter rules of conduct and rule enforcement not because they're mean, but because they want the focus and the atmosphere of the school to become more like the other more academic Christian Universities. Wheaton and Gordon are schools they really look up to.
The long story short is that the school does listen and react to the opinions of the students, as well as the trustees. However, you might be surprised by what those opinions are, according to the survey work. Further, the school actually has a vague goal as to what it wants to look like. What the atmosphere should be. What kind of students it would like to attract. They've actually been, comparatively, extremely liberal thus far. When put into context and compared to the schools PBA wants to be more similar to, they are pretty loose about most things.
So yeah, not much of a violation of rights. I wouldn't call this an evil conspiracy on the part of the administration either. This is their call and there is an important long term goal that may be affected by this. I really think it's a massive over reaction to call this an offense of any kind.
Well written...this is what I like about the Bacon posts . It's an open forum. Obviously, you have some inside info, and it's good to hear that PBA looks up and desires to be more like Wheaton (rather than just Regent).
Thank you for this, and I encourage others to give readers other sides of the coin, from the inside.
I think it is crazy to think that the administration is out to get us. Yea, they all hated college students so much that they decided to work for PBA. That's like saying a person hated going to the movies so much they ran a movie theater. I don't agree with the administration's every move, but I think they have the best motives in mind. Talking to Dr. Searle or Mike Loomis sometime would do a lot of you some real good. They have souls too believe it or not.
Oliver,
Would you like to drive all the people at smokers wall to the NOTW store so they can get the right Christian clothes, listen to the right Christian music and wear the right cheap Christian jewelry?
While you're driving them in your BMW, Mercedes Benz or Hummer, you can give a lecture on how to hide their flaws, pretend to be something that they are not, how to be holier than thou in the presence of other holier than thou's, backbiting, gossip, slander, and how to stomach the "new creation" you would like them to become. You know, all the finer points of PBA's version of Christianity. Maybe they missed that part of the Navigator.
Did you even read my post?
How absurdly typical of some schmuck to cry out "Hypocrisy!" when an issue like this comes up. Of course, there is usually some kind of super-smug claim to being a "Follower of Christ" instead of a "Christian" because people have given the latter a "bad name". Hell, maybe you even play an acoustic guitar and wear vintage clothing.
There are a lot of issue in this, and people not acting like good enough Christians is at the bottom. Why don't you actually try reading what was written and then reconsider.
" On March 30th, 2008 at approximately 1045PM, PBA Security officers and West Palm Beach Police responded to an armed robbery of an individual call. The incident occurred at the east bound corner of Acacia and S. Olive Ave. The suspects are described as two African American males. The first suspect was an African American male 6'0 skinny with short black hair, brown eyes wearing a light colored shirt and jeans. The second male was described as dark skinned and wearing dark clothes. One suspect was carrying a firearm on him during the time of the robbery. Both suspects attacked the victim and took the victims personal property. The victim in this incident was not a PBA student.
PBA Security is committed to continuing our mission of providing a safe campus, and reminds all PBA personnel that security escorts are available for all staff. It is important during this time to remember safety tips.
* Avoid as much as possible walking alone at night, always try to walk in groups.
* If walking to your car, have your keys out and ready to open your car door.
* Make sure your valuables are secure on your person.
* Report all suspicious individuals to PBA security immediately.
If you have any information regarding this robbery you are urged to call (561) 803-**** or fill out a silent witness form online. Additionally, you can talk to PBA security in person. It is important to also note that these incidents are isolated and we still continue to have a very low crime rate on our campus. We here at PBA security are available to assist your twenty-four hours a day."
Nice, so S&S cares about personnel and staff but this is the first I am hearing about it. I guess they could care less about the students.
They sent emails and posted it here. How do you suggest they become more open about the information?
I never got an e-mail. Anyone else not get this?
I am absolutely outraged! Not about smokers wall (although I could have sworn that it was a public sidewalk, as are ALL sidewalks along any city street, therefore making nearly impossible for the administration to stop you from walking naked down a path of cement if they wanted to!)
No I am outraged with what is going on in the School of Communication. I have been gone a year now, and got an email from Dr. Netsger mentining she resigned in March! People don't resign mid-semester unless something dramatic has happened. Does anyone have any details?
I don't know about the school of communication, but you're a bit mistaken about walking down the sidewalk naked Jason. Certain behaviors are prohibited by the school whether you are on campus or not. An 18 year old could not drink at smokers wall because is is underage drinking; it doesn't matter if it was off campus or not. I'm sure that walking in public naked would be a no-no, even if it wasn't the school's sidewalk (by the way, the city would have a problem with both of those, not just PBA).
If PBA said that students could not smoke at all, or that they could not smoke within a certain distance of the school, they couldn't smoke without having any consequences. That means that students couldn't smoke at smoker's wall, even though it isn't PBA property.
Dr. Brackin has resigned. Denise McGill and Dr. Metzger are leaving at the end of this semester.
I am sad that all of the good fabulty adn staff are leaving PBA. I am an alum and while things are bound to change over time, in ten years it should not be a completely different school with a completely different focus. Not making a joke of it at all when I say that God may well be calling the fine folks away to protect then from all the junk. PBA is now listed as a private university with emphasis on undergrafuate theater, ministry, and business offerings. Even that is a dichotomy, don't you think? I dont have an answer... O do know that Clark, Kloba and Searle need to leave. Or have you seen Dr Searle's renderings for her office when she is made president??
I have heard from many pastors in S Florida who have told me they didn't know where PBA was headed a few years ago, but they now feel confident that they stand for Christ. PBA is headed in a different direction and everyone I talk to outside of PBA says that it's a good thing. Dr. Clark, Searle, and Kloba have made sure that the Christian worldview is central to the University and I really don;t know what else you want from them. They don't need to leave, the faculty and staff who can't seem to accept the better direction need to leave.
this is the problem:
that everyone says that those who disagree need to leave. There is no communication or discussions any more.
Discussion is not allowed as far as faculty is concerned with this administration.
Many faculty who speak up don't get their contracts renewed.
Be sure to check and see how many teachers who are "leaving" aren't actually doing so on their own terms. They are just not having contracts renewed. It's a cleaner and quieter way to fire people.
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