GREENVILLE, S.C. –

Just a week before graduation, 23 year aged Chris Peterman should be scheming his top and gown.  Instead, a Bob Jones University tyro says he’s fighting for a grade he believes he’s earned, and he believes a renouned radio uncover “Glee” might be partly to blame.  “I wanted to go to Bob Jones, we desired Bob Jones,” a Senior says.  Peterman admits when he sealed adult for a regressive Baptist propagandize in 2006, he knew accurately what he was removing himself into.  He also says he accepted a school’s despotic set of standards, manners famous for banning all from sex and smoking, to examination radio on campus.  “I did determine to that,” he says.  “For 3 years, we lived underneath it, and we was fine.”

Peterman says a problems began several months ago, after he shaped a organisation called “Do Right BJU” to support passionate abuse recognition on campus.  The organisation hold a wordless criticism in December, and perceived widespread attention.  “That’s all when my problems started,” recalls Peterman.

When he returned to campus following Christmas break, a Senior describes being “harassed” by university administrators, who educated him to attend weekly meetings with a Dean.  Shortly after that, Peterman claims he began receiving demerits, or points, opposite his record for violation manners summarized in a tyro handbook.  Students are authorised 150 demerits, before being dangling from school.  “At first, it was for tiny things, like not shaving, or nearing late behind to a dorm.”

In April, a infractions escalated after Peterman says another tyro speckled him examination a FOX radio uncover “Glee” during a Starbucks off campus.  Peterman says he’s always been a large fan.  “I adore Glee.  I’ve watched it from a beginning.”  Shortly after a incident, he was called into a Dean’s bureau and given 50 demerits, putting him dangerously tighten to a school’s 150 demerit limit.  Peterman says a Dean told him a calm of a uncover was “morally reprehensible” and opposite a school’s values.  “It was since we was examination Glee,” he says.  “If we had been examination basketball, he says that would have been fine.”

Seven on Your Side contacted a school, and we were told Peterman’s problems have zero to do with a TV show.  School orator Carol Keirstead says while students are authorised to watch radio off campus, certain content, like some featured in “Glee”, would not be deliberate appropriate.  Keirstead expelled a created matter saying:  “We design students to conform a tyro compact in a suggestion and a letter.  Our idea is to assistance him succeed, and we’ve finished all we can to assistance him succeed.”

After contacting a dialect of Education and a university’s accreditation group for help, Peterman says he perceived his final demerits, effectively suspending him and kicking him off campus.  The reason on his demerit list reads:  “Insubordination/Disrespect”.

The 23 year aged says he will appeal, and still has faith he’ll accept that degree.  “God is in control.  God has a devise for this.”