>>10 NEWS HAS A LOOK AT FALWELL’S RECENT CONTROVERSIES THAT MAY HAVE
FACTORED INTO THE DECISION FOR
HIM TO STEP ASIDE FOR NOW.
JERRY FALWELL JUNIOR, THE
PRESIDENT OF LIBERTY UNIVERSITY
IS NOW ON AN INDEFINITE LEAVE
OF ABSENCE FROM THE INSTITUTION
HIS FATHER
HELPED CREATE.
>>THIS COMES AFTER A SERIES OF
ACTIONS FROM FALWELL THAT LEFT
MANY ASKING FOR
HIS RESIGNATION.
THE LATEST CONTROVERSY.
THIS PICTURE THAT WENT VIRAL
THAT HAS SINCE BEEN DELETED
FROM JERRY FALWELL JUNIORS
INSTAGRAM PAGE.
IT SHOWS HIS PANTS UNZIPPED AND
HIS ARMS AROUND A WOMAN WHO
ALSO HAS HER
PANTS UNZIPPED THE UNIVERSITY
DIDN’T GIVE A SPECIFIC REASON
FOR THEIR REQUESTS.
BUT NEW TONIGHT AT 11
JERRY THE CHAIRMAN OF THE
LIBERTY UNIVERSITY BOARD
OF TRUSTEES ISSUED A WRITTEN
STATEMENT SAYING
IN PART.
TODAY MY COLLEAGUES AN EYE ON
THE LIBERTY UNIVERSITY BOARD
OF TRUSTEES AND GERRI
MUTUALLY AGREED THAT IT WOULD
BE GOOD FOR HIM TO TAKE AN
INDEFINITE LEAVE
OF ABSENCE.
THIS WAS A DECISION THAT WAS
NOT MADE LIGHTLY
AND WHICH X-FACTOR THE
INTERESTS AND CONCERNS OF
EVERYONE IN THE L
YOU COMMUNITY.
10 NEWS REPORTER SHAYNE DWYER
IS LIVE TONIGHT AT LIBERTY’S
CAMPUS SHAME.
>>FIRST WHERE DOES THE
UNIVERSITY GO FROM HERE AND
THEN NOW WHO’S IN CHARGE.
>>WELL BERNIE 2 GREAT QUESTIONS. WE DON’T KNOW THE ANSWER TO
EITHER OF THOSE TONIGHT THERE
HAS BEEN NO ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT
WHO WILL BE NAMED AN INTERIM
PRESIDENT OR IF AN INTERIM
PRESIDENT WILL BE NAMED.
BUT AGAIN THIS COMES AMID
MELTING,
CONTROVERSY AND PEOPLE PUTTING
PRESSURE ON THE UNIVERSITY ALL
WE’VE HEARD FROM THE UNIVERSITY
TODAY WAS THAT VERY
BRIEF STATEMENT SAYING THE
JERRY FALWELL JUNIOR WOULD STEP
DOWN RIGHT AROUND 5 O’CLOCK
THIS EVENING
AND THEN IN THE PART THAT YOU
JUST READ FROM THE LETTER FROM
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES THAT GAVE
A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAIL, BUT
STILL LEAVES A LOT TO THE
IMAGINATION AT THIS
POINT AGAIN ALL COMING AS LOTS
OF PRESSURE WAS PUT ON LIBERTY
UNIVERSITY TO MAKE
A CHANGE.
>>A DAY FOR THE LIBERTY
UNIVERSITY HISTORY BOOKS AS THE
BOARD OF TRUSTEES TELLS
PRESIDENT JERRY FALWELL JUNIOR
THEY NEED A BREAK FALWELL IS
NOW ON AN INDEFINITE LEAVE OF
ABSENCE SURPRISING IN SADDENING
TO ALUM ERIC CAROL ONE OF THE
35 AFRICAN AMERICAN ALUMNI WHO
PENNED
THE LETTER CONDEMNING HIM
FOLLOWING HIS GOVERNOR NORTHAM
BLACK FACE MASK TWEET
YOU HE’S AN OK IDEA IS I’M
SORRY I WON’T DO IT AGAIN AND
THAT YOU DO IT AGAIN.
>>YOU DID THIS I’M SORRY WILL
DO TO GET THAT IS THAT IS THAT
AGAIN OR SOMETHING HAS TWEETED
OUT SOMETHING IS WRITTEN WHAT.
I THINK THAT PEOPLE JUST GET TO THAT POINT WHERE THEY’RE LIKE OK, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH IN THIS
NOW DELETED INSTAGRAM PHOTO
THAT WENT VIRAL FALWELL’S PANTS
WERE UNZIPPED WITH HIS ARMS
AROUND A FRIEND OF THE YACHT
PARTY JUST THE LATEST IN A
SERIES OF
CONTROVERSIES FOR A STAR BLACK
ATHLETE HAD BEGUN LEAVING
LIBERTY CITING RACIAL
INSENSITIVITY EARLIER THIS YEAR
HE TWEETED THE MASK WITH
NORTHAM’S BLACKFACE PHOTO ON IT
WHICH CONTRIBUTED TO A RIOT
POSTED A SARCASTIC PHOTO OF
ROAD KILL WITH THE DEAD FROM
COLD THAT 19 SIGN NEXT TO IT
ON INSTAGRAM.
>>IT WAS JUST SIZE FOR ALLOWING
STUDENTS BACK ON CAMPUS AT THE
BEGINNING OF THE PANDEMIC IT
ALL HAD MANY INCLUDING
CAROL QUESTIONING IF ALL A
JUNIOR WAS UNTOUCHABLE IN A
WHILE I THOUGHT OK DOES HE MIND
HERE.
>>IS ANYBODY.
>>PAY ANY ATTENTION TO ANY OF
THIS, I MEAN.
>>I HAD MORE FACEBOOK.
DEBATES
DEBATES GOING BACK AND FORTH AND WHAT I CARE TO EVEN THINK ABOUT
NOWADAYS BUT THAT’LL CHANGE
WITH THIS ANNOUNCEMENT HAS MANY
ASKING WHERE DOES THE
UNIVERSITY GO FROM HERE.
CAROL SAYS THIS IS A FIRST STEP
BUT IT HARDLY FIXES THE PROBLEM
RIGHT NOW I CAN TELL YOU
THERE’S PROBABLY.
>>IN THESE FROM WHAT I CAN DO
WHAT I DO AND IS IN THE 7
GROUPS OF PEOPLE FROM
LIBERTY UNIVERSITY THAT
ARE JUST MANY TO
RAISE CAIN OVER ALL OF THIS
STUFF THAT’S
GOING ON AND HOW PEOPLE HAVE
BEEN TREATED.
CAROL SAYS HE HOPES THIS ENDS
THE BAD NEWS FOR THE LIBERTY
NAME AND DESPITE CONFUSION.
>>HE NEVER CALLED FOR
FALWELL’S RESIGNATION, HE JUST
WANTS HIM TO RECONCILE WITH HIS
FAITH BUT IN THE END OF THE DAY
ADDRESSING THAT.
>>THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES IS
GOING TO LOOK AT THIS AND SAY
HOW DO WE HAVE
A STORM.
WHATEVER THAT LOOKS LIKE
WHETHER THAT’S RESTORING HIM
BACK TO THE PRESIDENT OF
THE SCHOOL OR NOT THAT’S UP TO
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND YOUR
JUNE.
>>NOW DESPITE ALL
THIS LIBERTY UNIVERSITY LIFE
WILL GO ON IN 2 WEEKS FROM NOW
STUDENTS ARE SET TO RETURN
TO CAMPUS.
IT’S UNCLEAR AT THIS POINT HOW
THIS CHANGE AT THE TOP MAJOR
SHAKE-UP WILL HAVE ANY IMPACT