<p>After seeing the thread on curfews for freshman, I got curious and looked up some other college rules:</p>
<p>at one school, you need to get mom and dad’s permission to “date” someone</p>
<p>another, grounds you in your dorm if you break a rule</p>
<p>and some you need a pass to leave campus, hangout with non school friends, etc</p>
<p>I just can’t imagine</p>
<p>Which schools???</p>
<p>The best rules are all found at Bob Jones and Pensacola Christian college. The latter forbids what they refer to dually as “ocular intercourse” and “making eye babies”</p>
<p>mostly baptist/evangelical, but I can’t imagine having to go to the dean to get a form to give to my parents so they can approve who I go out for pizza with (with a tagalong chaperone no less) when I am 20</p>
<p>Some schools won’t let you dance on or off campus.</p>
<p>and to think…these folks vote! YIKES.</p>
<p>This isnt MOST Baptist/evangelical, its just a select few crazy schools.</p>
<p>and to deny tv and internet in dorms is just bizarre to me, no matter what religion you are</p>
<p>how can you deny news?</p>
<p>you would be suprised vyse, do some research…</p>
<p>some have to approve your parttime job
only can listen to college approved media</p>
<p>Students are not to touch members of the
opposite sex unless they are married to each
other</p>
<p>Participation in activities which are not in
harmony with the Christian life (such as, but
not limited to, reading or looking at
questionable material, use of tobacco, drinking
alcoholic beverages, gambling, playing cards,
dancing, attending movies, attending plays
and theater events, use of profanity, abuse of
drugs) will be dealt with directly by the
President of the College. (5 – EXPULSION) </p>
<p>If at any time a student manifests a
detrimental influence or spirit of controversy
on the campus, or engenders a spirit contrary
to the purpose and principles for which the
college stands, he or she is subject to
expulsion even though they may not have
broken any specific rule or regulation.</p>
<p>In order
for rooms to be in good condition, beds should be made; clothing should be
in drawers or closets; trash containers should be empty; floor and furniture
should be free from dirt, dust, and stains; books and other articles should be
arranged so as to present an orderly appearance; commodes, basins, and
showers should be clean.</p>
<p>Includes but is not limited to inappropriate display of affection, sexual relations outside of marriage, homosexuality and
homosexual acts, and sexual promiscuity.
Sanctions
First Offense Loss of visitation privileges for the remainder of school year, 10 community service hours and disciplinary
conference</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>Sounds like it could be a very minimal standard for one of the federal service academies as well as other schools. The Academies actually have much stricter regulations regarding room inspections.</p>
<p>I have absolutely no problem with any (legal) rules a private college wants to impose. No one has to go there unless they want to. Where’s the outrage in this?</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>Or parents threaten to withold college tuition unless the child attends. Yikes.</p>
<p>I just find it absurd that adults in a college environment have to adhere to rules about bedmaking (not talking military schools here)</p>
<p>and for parents to approve who you date?</p>
<p>sure you don’t have to go, but how little trust people seem to have in their children that they have to threaten expulsion if a bed isn’t made or they touch someone of the opposite gender</p>
<p>as for the bedmaking, that is just laughable to me…you think a college adult, 20 years old, needs some RA checking to see if their room is tidy? and the bed is made?</p>
<p>a parent who needs these kinds of restrictions doesn’t seem to trust their adult offspring very much</p>
<p>They’re trying to shelter their kids from the world as long as possible, methinks. The reasoning is that if the kid is among like-minded Christians, s/he won’t encounter as much temptation as s/he would in a secular school.</p>
<p>It’s not so much about overprotectiveness of the kids as it is about being in an environment that is in accordance with the person’s Christian values. They are probably strict on sex just as a church trip would be strict about not allowing non-married adults to share hotel rooms.</p>
<p>I don’t see anything wrong with that, if that’s what the kid wants too. One of my son’s friends planned to go to BYU because she liked the idea of like-minded people and boys in white shirts and ties opening the doors for the ladies. It was her dream school. It would be the last place my son would go, but for her it was perfect.</p>
<p>It’s all about fit.</p>
<p>
That made me LOL.</p>
<p>cgm, care to actually give me a list of schools? My best friend goes to Baylor (largest southern baptist school), and there aren’t any rules against drinking or dancing. </p>
<p>It’s still a little harsher than I wanted to deal with (I spent 13 years at private school, so Texas A&M’s “do whatever you want so long as you make the grade” attitude was a godsend for me. I think I may have broken every rule you listed on Friday night minus the homosexuality one), but nothing like you’re describing.</p>
<p>What I find really interesting is the number of students who choose to go to these schools and then break the rules. </p>
<p>A friend of mine is at Liberty University (Jerry Falwell’s school), and has told me about the sex (heterosexual and otherwise), drugs, and drinking that go on off-campus. So everybody follows the rules on-campus, but off-campus, it’s just like any other school.</p>
<p>^ There;s multiple reasons. Unlike Pensacola Christian and Bob Jones, Liberty and BYU actually have respectable academic programs. Liberty has an excellent debate team, and BYU has one of the top accounting programs in the country. there’s also parents who refuse to pay for any college other than an uber strict one. And then there’s people who go to college with the intention of living “clean” only to realize what they’re missing out on.</p>
<p>Liberty does NOT have an “excellent debate team.” </p>
<p>Liberty participates in CEDA–cross-examination debate association. CEDA has several awards. One is the “Sweepstakes.” The Sweepstakes is awarded based on participation–and participation only. You get points for every round someone debates in–and it doesn’t matter whether you win or lose. Liberty enters one heck of a lot of novices in CEDA tournaments and based on the number of rounds that Liberty is in, it has won the Sweepstakes for participation several times. Based on the Sweepstakes, Liberty touts itself as the #1 ranked debate team in the nation. If you look at how many of those rounds Liberty wins, and how well it does in CEDA’s championship, you would never say it has an “excellent” debate team–FAR from it. </p>
<p>Personally, I think it’s disgusting because, to me at least, it’s one of those “technical truths” which is meant to mislead and does so.</p>
<p>Should you want to check for yourself, go to [url=<a href=“http://www.cedadebate.org%5DCEDA%5B/url”>http://www.cedadebate.org]CEDA[/url</a>]. Click on Sweepstakes. Liberty is currently #2 in terms of PARTICIPATION.</p>
<p>BTW, CEDA is only one of the debate leagues in the US.</p>