GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) -- Cornerstone University has lifted a ban on staff drinking alcohol that has been in place since the Christian school was founded 68 years ago, but students still aren't allowed to partake.
President Joe Stowell told Cornerstone's 279 employees at a staff meeting Friday that alcohol abstinence is being dropped because a three-year internal study concluded it is "biblically indefensible."
The Grand Rapids Press reports the ban was included in a "lifestyle statement" that's signed every year at the Grand Rapids school.
Cornerstone was founded as the Baptist Bible Institute of Grand Rapids in 1941. Its name was changed to Cornerstone College in 1994 and to Cornerstone University in 1999. It dropped a ban on student dancing in 2004.
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