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The media DRASTICALLY skewed the story. The student was "suspended" because he threatened the Professor.

The Professor could have chosen a different name to stomp on but I've seen people who commented on the class that have taken it before that took part in the exercise. So the professor has done it in years past, why would he not do it again?

The fact that they are making this a political/atheist thing is stupid. There are Christian democrats out there and I don't think Jesus was a Republican either. I'll have to keep watching "The Bible" series on History channel to make sure though  ;D

This situation has gotten unbelievably skewed and blown out of proportion because both sides of the story were not originally reported.  So now FAU gets more bad pub. even though it did nothing wrong. That's annoying.

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FAUfasho said

The media DRASTICALLY skewed the story. The student was "suspended" because he threatened the Professor.

The Professor could have chosen a different name to stomp on but I've seen people who commented on the class that have taken it before that took part in the exercise. So the professor has done it in years past, why would he not do it again?

The fact that they are making this a political/atheist thing is stupid. There are Christian democrats out there and I don't think Jesus was a Republican either. I'll have to keep watching "The Bible" series on History channel to make sure though  ;D

This situation has gotten unbelievably skewed and blown out of proportion because both sides of the story were not originally reported.  So now FAU gets more bad pub. even though it did nothing wrong. That's annoying.

I dont think FAU has done anything "wrong" in the three examples of bad pub (Geo Group naming rights, Jesus Stomp and Theory Professor)…just not sure they handled the publicity of it properly.

Teambeer is the most knowledgeable FAU sports fan I know, way smarter than me.
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I've been so far away up here for the last 12 years I don't know just how bad or not bad these things are.

I was just on Facebook and I see a picture. The caption says "FAU changes it's profile picture". It's just a scene of the campus with lots of palm. I Looked at the comments expecting to read comments of nostalgia and appreciation of the scene. Instead it's comments about the GEO Group and the stomp on Jesus incident.

This seems to be upsetting many people. I was a little upset about the stomp on Jesus thing but once I learned what the excercise was supposed to do I was ok with it. It seems that explanation never reached the public. The whole thing didn't seem to play out right in the class room either.

The administration needs to figure out the right thing to do what ever that is.

FAU - THE REAL SLEEPING GIANT
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Actually if you look at the FAU FB page people are making comments about the Jesus thing as far back as "Bury The Burrow in Red." Several people said we should be zero funded. One person referred to Poole as a she.

I honestly think people are hearing about this via Twitter and Facebook shares and skimming the article to find the incendiary parts, then being egged on to email Poole, write FAU and share the status to perpetuate the angry mob thing they've got going on there.

It's pretty embarrassing that these people can't even be bothered to think this through before they go firing off this nonsense.
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FAU has offically apologize for the incident and has said they have canceled the exercise and the student is allowed back in the class.

Florida governor wants probe of FAU ‘step on Jesus’ exercise | www.palmbeachpost.com

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FAU drops exercise asking class to stomp on ‘Jesus’ after... | www.palmbeachpost.com

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/education/fl-fau-student-jesus-20130320,0,2907836.story
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FAUfasho said

The media DRASTICALLY skewed the story. The student was "suspended" because he threatened the Professor.

The Professor could have chosen a different name to stomp on but I've seen people who commented on the class that have taken it before that took part in the exercise. So the professor has done it in years past, why would he not do it again?

The fact that they are making this a political/atheist thing is stupid. There are Christian democrats out there and I don't think Jesus was a Republican either. I'll have to keep watching "The Bible" series on History channel to make sure though  ;D

This situation has gotten unbelievably skewed and blown out of proportion because both sides of the story were not originally reported.  So now FAU gets more bad pub. even though it did nothing wrong. That's annoying.

Who says he threatened the teacher, the student claims it never happend and now FAU has apologized so I have to believe the student at this point.

To those of you that think this is no big deal, your wrong, it is a big deal.  As stated before I can guarantee you that teacher would not have the guts to have replaced Jesus with Mohammad.

The University is in the wrong here if this occurred in the past and that's the excuse for doing it again.  I fully understand college is a time to open our minds and try to accept new ideas and processes but this was an extremely poorly thought out exercise that never would have occurred to virtually any other religious group in this country except for Christians.  Why is it accepted to make fun and bash Christians yet if you mention anything about Muslims, Jews etc. you would be throw to the lions.

This teacher handled the students reaction to the "exercise" poorly and that is why this has blown up in the Universities face, maybe that's where the blame for this need to go. 

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I know this is back page stuff but do we really need the attention.

University Takes Action to Punish Student | FOX News & Commentary: Todd Starnes
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I was skimming down my Facebook news feed looking at the different posts from my FB friends. I see one of my friends who lives up here in this community sharing the article anout the stomp on Jesus. So it has gotten up here and will probably be shared by more.  I posted an explanation but don't think it will do any good.

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dusky256fc said

Who says he threatened the teacher, the student claims it never happened and now FAU has apologized so I have to believe the student at this point.

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Still waiting for police report, since it was such a serious confrontation that supposedly occurred…….
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