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Oral RobertsIn what must have been an incredibly humiliating experience for former ORU President Richard Roberts, his father, Oral Roberts, asked the ORU faculty in an emergency meeting to rescind their “no confidence” vote on his son Richard. I write about this because from a perception perspective – especially in the media – at the moment when Richard needs to be seen as a strong and confident leader, he’s having his dad ask the faculty to give him a second chance? According to AP reports, the faculty turned him down. The key here is that Oral is the product of an earlier generation, when he founded the institution and could easily maintain control. He could influence faculty decisions like ... read more