Monday, July 21, 2008

(posting shortly) MISSOURI BAPTIST HEART OF INTEGRITY QUESTIONS: Section A (partly posted), B C, and D (in their entirety)


These are the questions which will be asked of
the
individuals listed in the
Missouri Baptist Convention
EMERGENCY MEETING PRESS RELEASE
(
described here)

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MISSOURI BAPTIST HEART OF INTEGRITY QUESTIONS

The Role of the Law at a Christian University
~The Government, the Church, and the Law~
(SECTIONS A, B and C)

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Section A

~Southwest Baptist University and The Law~

(Questions 1-7)

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Question 1 (3 parts)

a) As employees and administrative personnel of a Christian institution, are you and your colleagues subject to and obligated to obey the laws of the local, state and federal governments?
Yes/No


b) Is it the moral or ethical obligation or the legal responsibility of you or any other SBU employee to report potentially injurious or serious criminal activity among the SBU staff, associates or supporters to the proper authorities?
Yes/No


c) In your opinion, is there any occasion when possible criminal or unethical conduct by SBU personnel which has resulted in injury or substantial or recurrent harm to others should be concealed from the proper authorities?
Yes/No


Question 2 (16 parts, a - p)
2. If a SBU official, administrator, faculty or staff member, employee or agent had engaged in any of the following illegal or unethical activities, in your opinion, would this be GROUNDS for DISMISSAL from Southwest Baptist University and/or NOTIFICATION of the proper governmental, professional, or church authorities or regulating agencies?

a) Complicity or participation in FORGING
or altering medical, academic, and/or other
RECORDS in order to conceal previous
wrongdoing by the SBU administration or
staff.
Yes/No

b) The presentation of false, misleading, or
incomplete testimony or information during
the discovery process or civil DEPOSITION.
Yes/No

c) The distribution of FALSE, misleading, or
incomplete INFORMATION to local, state, or
federal governmental OFFICIALS in the investigation
of a civil or criminal complaint against SBU, its
agents, employees, or associates with the intent
of defaming or defrauding other individuals or
concealing unethical or criminal conduct by
SBU associates.
Yes/No

d) The threatening of RETALIATION (harm to an
individual's academic career, employment, reputation,
family or friends) against an individual if that person
discussed or revealed illegal or unethical wrongdoing
by SBU faculty, administration, employees, or associates.
Yes/No

e) The continual indoor daytime (during business
hours) "fanspray" application of dangerous,
now-banned pesticides by an UNCERTIFIED
applicator on the SBU campus while students
were present.
Yes/No

f) The continual indoor daytime (during business
hours) "fanspray" application of dangerous,
now-banned pesticides by an UNCERTIFIED
applicator on the SBU campus while students
were present--even AFTER several students had
reported injuries and at least one was acutely
exposed twice and permanently disabled.
Yes/No

g) The purposeful DISREGARD of a PHYSICIAN'S
written INSTRUCTIONS which resulted in detriment
and injury to a student's health.
Yes/No

h) Complicity or participation in the use of
ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITY in the
orchestrated DEFAMATION of individuals
in order to DISCREDIT those individuals
and CONCEAL potentially criminal wrongdoing
by the SBU administration, employees, or
supporters.
Yes/No

i) The illegal use of ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITY
to discuss or distribute (without the student's
authorization) the confidential academic, medical,
or personal RECORDS of a SBU student with
a student's employer(s), friends or coworkers,
church personnel, deacons, church members,
or other unauthorized individuals.
Yes/No

j) The illegal use of ADMINISTRATIVE
AUTHORITY to discuss or DISTRIBUTE FALSE,
fabricated, misleading or incomplete INFORMATION
or documentation about a student with the student's
employer(s), friends or coworkers, church personnel,
church members, deacons, or other unauthorized
individuals with the intent of discrediting, defaming
or DEFRAUDING a student.
Yes/No

k) The searching and intentional VANDALISM
of a student's room and personal belongings for the
purpose of debasing the student and FORCING
the student to leave the University.
Yes/No

l) The PHYSICAL MENACING, harassment,
coercion, hazing, or INJURY of a student or
other individual(s) -- both on and off campus.
Yes/No

m) Complicity or participation in the recurrent,
prolonged and PREDATORY SEXUAL HARASSMENT
and defamation of students (even AFTER the
students left the SBU campus).
Yes/No

n) The persistent or retaliatory use of defamatory,
incendiary, or demeaning terms by the SBU
staff, faculty, and administration, such as:

*"CRAZY" -- a person who disagrees with the
SBU administration, staff, or policies;

*"DEMONIC" or "demon-possessed" -- a person
who is ill or who has experienced health problems;

*"HEATHEN" -- a student or other person who
does not currently attend church;

*"LIAR" -- a person, particularly a student,
who expresses opinions which threaten the
"status quo" or are different from those of
the SBU administration, staff, or associates;

*"MOOCHER" -- a person who accepts hospitality
from a Christian, or who asks for assistance from a
church or church-related organization during a crisis;

*"N****R" -- a black or dark-skinned person;

*"N****R-LOVER" -- someone who has friends
who are black or dark-skinned;

*"PAGAN" -- a non-Baptist Christian, or a member
of any other religious community.

*"W***E" -- virtually any unmarried woman,
virgin or not, or a divorced women;

*"PERVERT" -- a person who has experienced
sexual confusion or abuse, is or was sexually active,
or anyone who cares about or associates with
such persons;

*"PROBLEM STUDENT" -- a student who
disturbs the normal routine by expressing new
viewpoints or challenging the SBU administration,
staff, or associates;

*"PSYCHO" -- a student or other person who
causes the SBU staff, administration, or associates
to be inconvenienced;

*"QUEER" -- an effeminate male; or an unmarried
female, esp. one who is not dating or is not sexually
active, or a person who was reluctant to take part in
unseemly or coarse joking and discussions or would
not submit to groping or molestation by the SBU
administrative staff.

*"ROGUE CHRISTIAN" -- a Christian who, due
to severe disability or health problems, is unable
to attend church.
Yes/No

o) Complicity or participation in the use of
ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITY to PROPAGATE
malicious and unfounded rumors and FALSE
ACCUSATIONS (which resulted in profound
disruption to the student's family, social,
financial, emotional, academic, and spiritual
life) in an attempt to SHIELD SBU from LEGAL
LIABILITY and potential embarrassment in
the previous and now-acknowledged SEXUAL
MISCONDUCT of several SBU staff and
administrators.
Yes/No

p) The persistent misleading and conscious DECEIT
of University officials resulting in SUBSTANTIAL
and REPEATED physical, psychological, emotional
or spiritual HARM to other individuals.
Yes/No



Question 3 (16 parts, a - p)
3. If a SBU instructor, administrator, employee, or supporter had engaged in any of the above illegal or unethical activities, in your opinion, should that individual qualify for SPECIAL TREATMENT from Southwest Baptist University, the Missouri or Southern Baptist Conventions, any governmental agencies, institution or individuals (supporters, Trustees, Regents, or contributors) associated with Southwest Baptist University in the form of: promotions, tenure, pay raises, special bonuses ("housing allowances," etc.), ceremonial awards or recognition (Life Beautiful Award, career achievement award, etc.), political or church-related positions, financial remuneration and gratuities, or any other considerations?


Please answer
Yes/No to the above 16 items (a - p) in Question 2.


Question 4
4. If a SBU administrator, member of the faculty or staff, or other SBU employee or associate were found to have committed an illegal or unethical offense against a student, in your opinion, does the SBU GOVERNANCE bare the ethical RESPONSIBILITY for reconciling the situation by determining suitable and timely disciplinary action against the employee or associate and providing amends or compensation for the wronged student?
Yes/No


Question 5
5. If a SBU administrator, member of the faculty or staff, or other SBU employee or associate were found to have committed an illegal or unethical offense against a student, in your opinion, during what TIME FRAME should the governance of Southwest Baptist University provide the student with an apology, compensation, amends, correction of the student's record, restitution, reconciliation, or other appropriate response?


Please indicate Yes to one of the following (a - l):
a) within one day
b) within one week
c) within one month
d) within six months
e) within one year
f) within two years
h) within five years
i) within ten years
j) within twenty or more years
k) not until the student dies
l) SBU has no ethical obligation to apologize
or offer amends for the criminal or unethical
conduct of its employees, officials, or associates.



Question 6
6. In your opinion, if the SBU administration and governance, having been alerted on numerous occasions of the possible illegal or unethical conduct of a SBU administrator, member of the faculty or staff, or other SBU employee or associate, failed to take substantive and decisive action to rectify the situation and prevent further incidents in the future, would this indicate the failure of administrative authority and precipitate the REEVALUATION of the legitimacy, effectiveness, and INTEGRITY of the SBU governance?
Yes/No


Question 7 (3 parts, a - c)
a) In your opinion, are the SBU Trustees and the members of the leadership of the Missouri Baptist Convention (which owns SBU), as individuals, LEGALLY, MORALLY, and FINANCIALLY liable for the administrative policies and activities of Southwest Baptist University and its employees and agents?
Yes/No

b) As a member of the SBU staff or administration, do you condone (or have you ever condoned) the use of SLANDER, INTIMIDATION, physical assault or VIOLENCE against any individuals who disagree with the policies or behavior of SBU personnel?
Yes/No

c) Do you believe that the CAREER, REPUTATION, HEALTH, or LIFE of any individual should be FORFEITED in order to COVER the illegal, fraudulent, and/or potentially costly or embarrassing misconduct of the officials, employees, or associates of Southwest Baptist University, or the Missouri and Southern Baptist Conventions?
Yes/No

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MISSOURI BAPTIST HEART OF INTEGRITY
QUESTIONS:
The Role of the Law at a Christian University
~The Government, the Church, and the Law~
( Sections A, B & C)

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