Is Vanderbilt a place for a non-drinking Christian?

sbjdorlo
Mon, 21 Feb 2011 17:02:25 +0000

Some title, huh? :-)

My son, a junior, is enamoured of Nashville because of the music scene and has put Vanderbilt on his list without really knowing anything about it. He’s a violinist and a guitarist and has done lots of music here but he’s not winning concerto competitions or anything like that; still, he loves the idea of playing for something like Nashville Strings Machine one day (while at the same time, being a research physicist-ha!).

He would be a physics or math major and possibly minor in music. He’d like to try and visit this summer (he has a friend within an hour of the school) but I’m not sure he’ll get a very good picture of what the school is really like during the summer.

Is there a strong Christian community on campus? If someone isn’t interested in drinking and fraternities, is there a place for them at Vanderbilt?