PROTESTS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A group of alumni from one of the country’s most influential evangelical Christian universities is condemning their school’s president for his continued alignment with President Trump.
A small but growing number of Liberty University graduates are preparing to return diplomas to their school. The graduates are protesting university President Jerry Falwell Jr.’s ongoing support for Trump. They began organizing after Trump’s divisive remarks about the deadly white supremacist protests in Charlottesville, Va.
Chris Gaumer, a former Student Government Association president and 2006 graduate, said it was a simple decision.
‘I’m sending my diploma back because the president of the United States is defending Nazis and white supremacists,’ Gaumer said. ‘And in defending the president’s comments, Jerry Falwell Jr. is making himself and, it seems to me, the university he represents, complicit.’ “
-Sarah McCammon, “Some Liberty University Grads Are Returning Their Diplomas To Protest Trump,” NPR, Aug 20, 2017 07:01am