Richard Robert, president of Oral Roberts university and son of evangelist Oral Roberts, has asked the board of ORU for a leave of absence in the face of a lawsuit from former faculty and variety of accusations that are being made against Roberts and his wife.




The Associated Press carried the story today about Roberts' request for leave.

Roberts has been accused of "lavish spending at donors' expense and illegal involvement in a political campaign," according to the AP. Three ORU faculty members claim they were released from the university for questioning Roberts' expenses - expenses they say included a trip to the Bahamas for his daughter on the university's private jet.

The lawsuit by former faculty also alleges that Roberts' wife, Lindsay Roberts, has been using university resources to phone and text message underage males and that she has "spent the night in the ORU guest house with an underage male on nine separate occasions," according to the AP story. Lindsay Roberts has denied any inappropriate relationships.