The rules at Falwell's "Liberty" Unversity (all 46 pages)

[pstokely]

There won't be any student protests against Mittens today, they're not allowed

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/documents/2012/05/liberty-university-student-handbook.php?page=1

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Strange they would name it Liberty University

considering that liberty seems to be in short supply there.

[tularetom]

2. It's not much of a "university" either

[pstokely]

3. It does have accreditation unlike Bob Jones

and a law skool

[hobbit709]

4. A friend of mine's nutjob relatives believe that Bob Jones is too liberal an institution.

Which tells you a lot about his relatives.

[Posteritatis]

12. A good friend of mine is a BJU alum, who calls herself a "BJU survivor" now

I've been following the protests against the school she and some others have been organizing largely as a result of the whole Chuck Phelps thing. The defenders of that school are ... astonishing, to say the least.

People who think the school doesn't go far enough into crazyland are just scary.

[tularetom]

5. Apparently anybody can call something a university

Kaplan University, University of Phoenix, DeVry University. All "for profit" institutions which are basically instruments for lending money to prospective students at usurious rates.

Liberty differs from these only by having a political/religious agenda and a residential campus with a bunch of medieval rules of conduct. Otherwise it really is only a vehicle for glomming onto some student loan money.

[backscatter712]

6. Wow, look at the chart of reprimands.

Get more than 18 reprimands and you're on probation & in danger of expulsion.

Among the offenses:

Curfew violation (1 reprimand)
Hair/dress code violation (4 reprimands)
Improper personal contact (anything beyond hand-holding) (4 reprimands)
Music code violation
Attendance at a dance (6 reprimands)
Gambling
Possession/use of tobacco
Attendence/viewing of R, NC-17 or X rated movie (12 reprimands!)
Participation in an unauthorized petition or demonstration
Possession or viewing of sexually explicit material
Students of opposite sex visiting alone at off-campus residence
Association with those consuming alcohol (you don't actually have to consume alcohol, just be around someone who is!)
Abortion will get you expelled.
As will "Immorality"
And involvement with witchcraft, seances or other satanic or demonic activity

[Angry Dragon]

7. The Puritans are alive and well

[pstokely]

8. reprimands give them more $

nt

[sufrommich]

9. Music code violation,Attendance at a dance (6 reprimands)

Someone should make a movie about this,the plot is rock and roll and dancing are outlawed,the kids rebel. Kenny Loggins should do the title song.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

17. Isn't classical unacceptable as well in some cases?

[Liberal_in_LA]

14. 12 reps for an R rated movie?

[SoutherDem]

10. These Universities/Colleges Serve One Purpose

To train the next generation of the right wing nuts.

Think of the Climate Change argument, many if not most of the "scientists" who deny it being true were trained (undergraduate) at these schools. Same with the creationism argument.

[Posteritatis]

11. Yep. And Liberty isn't even the worst of them

Liberty or other restrictive schools like Brigham Young might as well be Berkeley compared to, say, Bob Jones University (where there's a white list of acceptable forms of music, and where you can get reprimanded for speaking to a member of the opposite sex while standing still).

Some far, far worse policies there which have turned them into a bit of a lightning rod from people paying attention and survivors of the place and so on, but the "mundane" stuff is astonishingly petty.

[hifiguy]

13. At least BYU is a very good university, academically speaking.

Most of the god-botherer "universities" and "colleges" offer diplomas that are worth considerably less, in terms of actual educational value, than the paper they are printed on.

[Posteritatis]

18. Yeah, that part I won't dispute. (nt)

[Liberal_in_LA]

16. omg, you are right: Bob Jones music rules here (but you can bring guns), G movies only

G movies are cartoons.

■Music must be compatible with the University’s music standards: New Age, jazz, rock, and country music is not permitted. Contemporary Christian music is not permitted (e.g., Michael W. Smith, Stephen Curtis Chapman, WOW Worship, and so forth).

■Residence hall students may not watch videos above a G rating when visiting homes in town and may not attend movie theaters.
■All weapons must be turned in for storage. Trigger locks are required for pistols. Fireworks are not permitted on campus

http://pomomusings.com/2007/10/30/life-as-a-bob-jones-student-what-not-to-bring/

[Pisces]

15. Funny since they teach Mormonism is a cult. Just posted this from Andrew Sullivan

He might have checked out the curriculum first:

Page 173. Graduate course Theology 678—Western and New Religions.

Course description:

"The history, doctrines, and present state of the major cults such as Mormonism, Christian Science, Jehovah's Witnesses and Seventh Day Adventism. The course will also include a study of the Occult Movement. Emphasis is placed on the errors of these groups and on methods and materials for confronting them effectively."

Keep pandering to anti-Mormon fundies, Mitt. It's so becoming.