Snow? In July!?

In the contest to see which campus can have the best amenities, Liberty University (Va.) has said "I see your climbing wall and I raise you one all-weather ski slope."
The slope, anticipated to open in 2009, will be made out of Snowflex, which videos on the school's website explain was invented in Britain and is basically all weather carpet laced with water misters. Skiers and snowboards can do all the tricks they do on snow, without worrying about the cold or waiting for the course to get groomed.
In the press release announcing the installation Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr explained, "There are no beer bashes at Liberty, and no coed dorms, but it doesn't have to be a monastery.  We're breaking the stereotype that Christian education is synonymous with boredom."
Call me old-fashioned, but skiing without snow doesn't seem quite natural.