<p>I was lurking elsewhere because I’m bored and don’t feel like doing any more work (I need to get a life, I know) and came across the Bob Jones U thread - and this is the most bizarre list of rules I have ever seen. </p>
<p>What’s most bizarre is that all of the rules follow the same theme, which is somewhat understandable considering what sort of a place it is, but the last one is ridiculously weird - the students commonly live in way that they don’t listen to music, see movies, etc., but, they routinely carry firearms or something???</p>
<p>^^Apparently they’re heavily armed, as well. Which was my point in the thread - the list itself is - well, certainly not anything close to what I would consider desirable or even tolerable, but, hey, if they can sell it, great, if they like it, I love it.</p>
<p>What struck me was the final rule. It doesn’t fit with the sort of student who might be interested in such a school. They own and carry guns - and so many that it provokes a rule??? It’s kind of like saying “brush your teeth after every meal” followed by “always wash your hands before leaving the restroom” followed by “jackets and ties must be worn at all times” concluding with “check your cocaine and marijuana at the door” or “drug deals may be conducted only outside of classroom hours” - or something. Bad analogy but the best I can think of…</p>
<p>You cannot have a refrigerator, or watch a movie >G, but, hey, they assume the students have guns. I cannot get over that - unbelievable…</p>
<p>^actually, there is quite a lot of overlap between many fundamentalists and NRA types. It doesn’t surprise me at all. Probably very few students are actually bringing guns, but from a PR point of view, the school would want to make it clear where they stand on gun ownership.</p>
<p>“but, hey, they assume the students have guns. I cannot get over that - unbelievable…”</p>
<p>Not really…they just include a requirement (Gun Safety 101, btw) that students who want to continue the recreational use of guns while at college provide their own trigger locks when returning their firearms to the public safety department for storage. It’s not at all uncommon for colleges in rural areas to allow students who like to hunt or target shoot to store firearms with the campus police. Such students are issued yearly permits, and sign their guns in and out when they wish to use them. In fact, the only way the gun policy at Bob Jones differs appreciably from that at Middlebury, Colby, and Dartmouth (to name just a few) is that Bob Jones U takes the additional safety step of requiring student-supplied trigger locks, which they all should do.</p>
<p>A lot of fundies are card carrying NRA members, and big protectors of the second amendment. I don’t know why this surprises anyone (I am more shocked by the G movie requirement).</p>
<p>It’s the whole “media blackout” thing (the movies, the internet, photos, music, tv) that I find truly alarming. (And darn right un-American! Ha.) It reminds me of visiting a Communist country in the 80s when you couldn’t even bring a magazine or camera on the airplane enroute.</p>
<p>It does strike me as perverse that the school does not allow you to play a video game where you pretend to shoot a gun at a deer, but does allow you to actually shoot a gun at a deer. In other words, depiction of blood and gore is worse than actual blood and gore.</p>
<p>There was one school that mailed D a viewbook from the UP of Michigan (I think. Heck, I know it was someplace up there in the frozenland) that had on campus meat processing for the hunters. How convenient. For the life of me I can’t think of the name but I swear it’s true. Now that did strike me as a bit odd. </p>
<p>Nothing negative you could tell me about Bob Jones would surprise me.</p>
<p>A quick google search reveals that meat processing is a degree program at any number colleges and universities that offer “food science” programs. University of Florida, Eastern Oklahoma State, Sheridan College. Kind of makes sense that a school with such a program would offer free or low-cost meat processing for hunters as an inexpensive way of acquiring the needed carcasses.</p>
I am not at all clear on the perversion alluded to; to me it would seem more analogous to the perversion of a romantically-challenged cum-internet porn aficionado when juxtaposed to a couple enjoying the benefits of coital love…done the old fashioned way, so to speak–excepting of course that the expected climax to the event is what was once known–quaintly and sweetly–as the ‘little death’ rather than as above the death of a deer one.</p>
<p>When ever I hear of BJU–which, it should be said, on cc is all the time–I cannot help but think that this must have been where the ever efficient Clinton administration might have recruited their buxom interns.;)</p>
<p>The Clinton’s, being ever academically inclined would, no doubt, not simply recruit run of the mill dummy-interns; but interns with a specific academic pedigree in the administration of their specific White House duties: even advanced degrees where possible.</p>
<p>So why not recruit interns at a university, like BJU, known to excel in such expertise as the President required and clearly enjoyed.</p>