what a got dam shame@ being a republican
http://mythfighter.com/2015/03/23/li...ed-cruz-maybe/Liberty U. Students Forced to Attend Ted Cruz Speech
All Liberty students are obligated to show up for convocations on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Absenteeism results in “four reprimands and a $10 fine,” according to student Daniel Joseph Hayes.
Hayes complained that Cruz’s decision to make his announcement at a Liberty U. convocation was “starkly deceptive,” since it might appear to outside observers that throngs of students had decided to support Cruz of their own volition. He wrote, according to Bloomberg:
I strongly object to Senator Cruz’s choice of venue for the announcement of his 2016 presidential bid: as is well-known by Liberty University students but considerably less well-known by the general public, all students are required to attend convocation every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
Sen. Cruz is a friend of the Liberty University administration and has spoken at convocation in the past. As such, he knows that all students are required to be in attendance.
I bear no ill will toward Sen. Cruz, but his choice to announce his 2016 presidential bid at convocation at Liberty University is a starkly deceptive one.
Should the general public be unaware that all students are required to attend convocation, it would seem to the average viewer (as this will be televised and is already being widely publicized) that 10,000 supporters came to Liberty University to hear Sen. Cruz’s announcement. However, every student in attendance has no say in the matter.
Students will either attend convocation and lend to the illusion of widespread support for Sen. Cruz, or they will be subject to administrative punishment–specifically, four reprimands and a $10 fine–if they are absent.
While Sen. Cruz has every right to run for president and to announce his candidacy, it is a highly deceptive, albeit politically savvy, move on Sen. Cruz’s part to make his big announcement here.
I do not support this action, and I am not alone in my belief that such deception is wrong.
There’s something vexing about an ins ution with “liberty” in its name requiring attendance at a political event.
Ah, clever Ted, on “Cruz control.” The campaign begins.
Bet you won’t hear about this from Sean Hannity.
Rodger Malcolm Mitc
I would take the fine. Of course I would never go to that school.
Some saw it as an opportunity. Props to them.
Yes, but considering how that got almost no publicity I would rather have my time back if I were them.Some saw it as an opportunity. Props to them.
Eh, made The Daily Show. It is their weekly routine anyway.
Liberty University makes me shudder almost as much as Ted Cruz makes me smh
I didn't know that. At least it got some publicity then, so maybe it was worth it. I doubt these kids are really Daily Show watchers though. Everyone who goes to that school is very conservative but at least it points out to other republican primary voters that the kids aren't all stoked about Cruz.
How can anyone be stoked about Rand though?
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