Lead Practice
Curriculum Changes
New Liberty University students will be required to take an additional three courses in math, computer science and foreign language beginning Fall 2020 in order to graduate.
The university’s president, David French, announced the changes in response to a recent study that found that a mere 15% of the university’s students took a foreign course and only 20% took a math course.
Arrest
A Vanderbilt University student and cheerleader was arrested Friday night for the third time in six months for driving under the influence of alcohol.
Cathy Bensen, 22, was this year’s homecoming queen and a straight-A biology graduate student.
Record Weather
Port Columbus experienced unseasonably warm weather on Sunday, with a high temperature that broke an 131-year-old record.
The weather office reported a high of 82 degrees at 3:30 p.m., the hottest temperature on October 11 in the city since 1888 and far above its average October high temperature of 70 degrees.
Protest
A group of citizens led by the pastor of a local church plans to visit the state capital next Monday to protest the teaching of evolution in a Liberty University biology class.
Neither Laura Cliff, the professor whose teaching is being protested, nor the university’s president would comment on the protest being led by Wilbur Straking, pastor of the Ever-Faithful Church of the Living Water.
Lawsuit
The woman who slipped on green beans left on the floor of Amburn’s Produce Market and broke her hip filed suit in Circuit Court Wednesday.
Ellie Maston of 313 Journey Road is suing the market for $100,000 on charges of negligence for the physical and mental injury she claims she suffered due to the April 1 accident.
Agreement Announced
The strike planned at Ambrose Steel Company that would have stopped production and put 457 steelworkers off the job was cancelled after Ambrose and the local steelworkers’ union reached an agreement.
The contract was announced by Clyde Parris, president of Ambrose, and Charles Pointer, president of the union, who promised a “substantial wage agreement” that will be announced Thursday night to a meeting of the union.
