How money colleges have rules like Falwell's?

[pstokely]

http://www.liberty.edu/index.cfm?PID=1417

[WritingIsMyReligion]

1. Seen the one at Bob Jones?

There used to be a link for it..it was hysterically frightening.

[trof]

2. How "money" colleges? Freudian slip?

;-)

[pstokely]

5. Moranese

[Initech]

13. Wow. At least Falwell's school lets you listen to music...

:eyes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Jones_University#Student_rules

[rainbow4321]

20. How in the hell do these people function in the real world..

after living in this isolated bubble for 4 years..

From the link:

Each student is provided with a filtered e-mail account. Using unfiltered Internet access via computer, mobile phone, or satellite phone is prohibited for residence hall students. The university provides content-filtered Internet access for student use that blocks pornography, "lurid violence," racial hate, and other "objectionable content."
DVD/VCRs are not allowed in residence halls; DVD players on computers cannot be used for watching films. Televisions may be used only as monitors to play video games.
Students are forbidden to attend movie theaters or, when visiting local homes, to watch any films with a rating higher than a G rating

[youthere]

22. So it sounds as though they won't be able to access FreakRepublic.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

23. They can't watch movies or TV --

But they are allowed to play video games?

That doesn't really make sense...

[kay1864]

26. Well, not *those* video games....

"Residence hall students are not permitted to play, use, or own video games that are rated T, M, or Ao or that include profanity, sensual or suggestive dress, rock music, graphic violence, or demonic themes."

[La Lioness Priyanka]

3. byu has homophobic rules too.

[Momgonepostal]

24. BYU came to my mind, too, but Liberty seems more strict

It looks like at Liberty they require you to attend convocation, and even check attendance. Ad they require "Christian Service" and keep track of whether you did it satisfactorily.

The thing about any of these schools, it that the students are told exactly what is expected of them before they get there. None of these rules are sprung on anyone. If you don't like, there are hundreds of other universities in the country.

[TheMightyFavog]

4. As for the dress code. Many State Universities used to have ones like that.

At many institutions male students had to wear collard shirts and some even required ties to class. This continued at many places up until the 60s

[pstokely]

7. It probably continued even into the 80s

What State Universities (that you know of) had those rules.

[trof]

9. I'm sorry. I'm REALLY sorry. But "collard shirts"?

I immediately got a mental image of a shirt made out of collard greens.
:rofl:
collared

[Goblinmonger]

18. I would fight for

Swiss Chard, but I personally like the red tint.

[pstokely]

6. "many" not "money"

[Courtesy Flush]

8. Not much liberty there

[pstokely]

10. They don't offer a major in irony

[Courtesy Flush]

11. LOL

[TommyO]

16. Jesus' dress and hair would be unacceptable

based on their dress code.

[Initech]

12. Wow. Talk about STRICT.

:yoiks:

[blockhead]

14. that's fucked up. n/t

[Manifestor_of_Light]

15. Baylor Univ. in Wacko, TX used to be that way

I don't know what they are like now, but in the 60s and 70s, girls couldn't wear shorts or slacks on campus.

My parents were horrified that some of our boring rich conservative relatives sent their kids to Baylor in the Vatican City of the Babtists.

I went to Trinity U in San Antonio, which used to be more or less Presby. None of that bullshit for us liberals!! The religion department was fabulous, all the guys there went to Harvard or Princeton and you could take all sorts of cool anthropology/philosophy type courses. No indoctrination!!!

I'd like to see some of these halfassed preachers pass some of the religion courses there like the one I took in Old Testament which was basically a history class. They couldn't pass any of those courses.

[Jimbo S]

17. No Speedos at the pool?

Men are required to wear appropriate swimsuits that are not excessively short, tight, or high-cut. Speedos, spandex suits, or cut-off jeans are not acceptable.

[Goblinmonger]

19. So this is probably out?

[youthere]

21. ha ha..

"After dusk, students should not be alone with an individual of the opposite sex in any unlighted area such as the ball fields, parking lots, parked cars, ravine or other wooded areas, etc. "

Guess they've never heard of a little "afternoon delight".

[deepthought42]

25. Ha, I used to visit their website...

Going to a liberal arts college in the same city my roommate and I would get a good laugh out of visiting their website and basically laughing our asses off at their ridiculous rules...those students are just a little crazy... :wtf:

[Jamastiene]

27. I still find it hard to believe that he'd call it Liberty U.

There is definitely no liberty there. Up until recently (when the NC chapter of the ACLU helped me), Richmond Community College in Hamlet, NC had a policy that denied women graduation honors unless we wore dresses. They would not allow me to wear a formal pant suit, so I contacted the ACLU and they fired off a letter. The school ever so politely backed down. The women applauded at graduation rehearsal when the change to the policy was announced. I never even knew other women at the college would care. I just thought I and a few like me would prefer to wear a pant suit. I felt good about it when I heard that thunderous applause.

[Evoman]

28. Its like your enrolling in some sort of prison. Why would any college student want to go there?

If your really such an "upstanding christian", shouldn't you be able to, I don't know, resist pornography and sex on your own? I can't understand the mindset of the student who enrolls in these faux colleges...do their parents force them? What do they get out of it?

[electricmonk]

31. "do their parents force them?"

Sort of, A friend of mine went there and she said it was the only college her parents would pay for so she went. She survived and is a Bush-hating, punk rock listening, tattooed, flaming liberal today.

[Evoman]

32. I would enroll in one of those colleges just to break the rules. I think it would be fun.

Corrupting me some of em yummy fundie chicks....hellll yeahhh.

[sakabatou]

29. Gyah!

It's like being in an episode of the Twilight Zone

[Rhythm]

30. and if you live off-campus, the Liberty patrol comes to YOUR PLACE to check on you...

Oktoberain and i got a good laugh out of this place when we were reading the rules a while back.

The i told her that the private parochial school where i had gone in the '80s sent a LOT of students both there and to Bob Jones U...

she was even more horrified than ever that i had gone to such a place, and i'm sure wonders still how i survived with my freethinking nature intact.