RIP Oral Roberts

I thought they installed the Greg Louganis Memorial upside-down.

 

Well, technically speaking, it's not an actual building, just a giant sculpture placed at the entrance. It used to be in front of Oral's City of Faith hospital complex (the triumvirate of buildings in the previous post) and when COF folded they moved it to the ORU entrance. But yeah, it's a bizarre place, architecturally speaking and otherwise.

I even worked in the ministry's (not the university's) propaganda department for a couple of years. This was long after Oral retired and Richard inherited it. At that point there was not nearly the separation of ministry and university that exists today. Now, though, since Richard (and especially his wife Lindsay) got written up for allegedly using ministry money for personal gain, the Roberts family, from what I understand, has little if anything to do with the university. Thank God for that.

 

Our headline?

God prepares to receive Oral

 

Those are the CityPlex towers. They were built with the idea that they'd be a Christian hospital, but apparently there wasn't enough demand and now they're mostly just offices:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CityPlex

 

yeah, i looked that up after posting. pretty hilarious, and not surprising, that some of the towers weren't even completely finished on the inside. even as a small kid, I always thought it was dumb to have those three huge buildings just sitting there by themselves.