Liberty University

Liberty University, originally called Liberty Baptist College, is a fundamentalist Christian university founded by Jerry Falwell.

Liberty?
The name is rather Orwellian. Firstly, at Liberty University, students do not have the liberty to attend dances, break curfew, watch "R" rated movies, view sexually explicit material, enter the bedroom of someone of the opposite sex, or otherwise exhibit behavior "associated with a counterculture". Students may not drink alcohol, or smoke tobacco, or organize petitions without permission, and are also subjected to random, mandatory drug tests. This restrictive code of conduct is called the "Liberty Way". No joke intended. Academic posts are mostly non-tenured so the authorities can control staff as well.

Secondly, it is barely a university. The lack of academic and other freedom has not improved the University’s academic performance; Liberty University has earned a prominent place on Radar Online’s list of the worst colleges in the country. Despite their lack of academic credentials, their debate team is one of the highest ranked in the nation, having won several major national championships. It should be noted that they sponsor such a great debate team in order to create the lawyers that they hope will argue against Roe v. Wade.

But participating in championship debating requires them to be capable of debating both sides of a question; this means that some of their debaters have to, on occasion, argue in favor of legalized abortion. This has drawn criticism from at least one Dominionist crank who thinks that because Aristotle was "probably a homosexual," he had nothing useful to say on the subject of logic.

Randall Price, head of the university's Center for Judaic Studies, is planning a trip to Turkey to find remnants of Noah's Ark.

Academia
Some of the most highly coveted classes one can take at Liberty University include classes that teach creation studies and, particularly, Young Earth Creationism in lieu of evolution or actual biology. The university, itself, has a Center for Creation Studies, which, similar to the Discovery Institute, seeks to create evidence supporting creationism out of thin air.