{"id":13009,"date":"2013-03-26T12:46:50","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T16:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/?p=13009"},"modified":"2015-05-28T18:10:05","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T22:10:05","slug":"university-files-charges-against-stomp-on-jesus-student-whistleblower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/university-files-charges-against-stomp-on-jesus-student-whistleblower\/","title":{"rendered":"University Files Charges Against \u2018Stomp on Jesus\u2019 Student Whistleblower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Todd Starnes at <em>Fox News<\/em> reports that the Florida Atlantic University student who filed a complaint against his professor after he was ordered to stomp on the name of Jesus has been brought up on academic charges by the school and may no longer attend class.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cNotice of Charges\u201d against Ryan Rotela is contrary to a statement the university released late Friday night saying no one had been disciplined as a result of the classroom activity, according to documents obtained by <em>Fox News<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can confirm that no student has been expelled, suspended or disciplined by the university as a result of any activity that took place during this class,\u201d the university said in a prepared statement.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>However, according to a letter written by Associate Dean Rozalia Williams, Rotela is facing a litany of charges \u2013 including an alleged violation of the student code of conduct, acts of verbal, written or physical abuse, threats, intimidation, harassment, coercion or other conduct which threaten the health, safety or welfare of any person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the interim, you may not attend class or contact any of the students involved in this matter \u2013 verbally or electronically \u2013 or by any other means,\u201d Williams wrote to Rotela. \u201cPlease be advised that a Student Affairs hold may be placed on your records until final disposition of the complaint.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hiram Sasser, director of litigation at the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.libertyinstitute.org\/\"><strong> Liberty Institute<\/strong><\/a>, told Fox News the university\u2019s behavior is \u201coutlandish\u201d and called their press release \u201cinaccurate.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/radio.foxnews.com\/toddstarnes\/top-stories\/university-files-charges-against-student-who-refused-to-stomp-on-jesus.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to read more.<\/p>\n<p>CL<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thecollegefix\" target=\"_blank\">ICK HERE to Like <em>The College Fix<\/em> on Facebook.<\/a><\/p>\n            <div class=\"article-truncate-control\">\n                <button class=\"show-complete-article\">\n                    Read More                <\/button>\n            <\/div>\n\n        ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Notice of Charges\u2019 runs contrary to a statement by the university saying no one had been disciplined. \u2026 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":170,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1361],"tags":[4896,3129,1612,4895,4894,4847,4840,4892,4893],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Oh4L-3nP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/170"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}