For those that attend religious/jesuit universities..

do y'all have morals clauses like BYU? How they kicked that girl out of school that was on the Real World?

I didn't want to hijack the thread in News and Politics, but GP got me thinking. Can they kick you out of, say, St. John's for being promiscuous?

I know at Baylor they will kick out any girls that pose for Playboy's Girls of the Big XII issues and they recently kicked the Sig Eps there off of campus for appearing in a group photo.

Kitso
KS 361

[GPhiLlama]

Jes kid here!

If we have a moral clause, it's not in use. It's pretty lax, but this is New Orleans.

[Senusret I]

I also went to a Jesuit university, and we did not have a morals clause of that nature.

[GeekyPenguin]

Originally posted by GPhiLlama
Jes kid here!

If we have a moral clause, it's not in use. It's pretty lax, but this is New Orleans.

Ditto minus the NO part.

The "worst" thing they haven't let us do is form a VOX group because it "conflicts with our Jesuit identity" which I guess I can understand, but they also allow all sorts of other groups to form that conflict with it. We just meet at the off-campus Starbucks and say to Hell with them.

I was talking to a friend who goes to Notre Dame about this and we decided Catholic universities are just traditionally a little more lax than, say, BYU or Baylor - probably because we've been around longer and we're just a more relaxed religion.

[Optimist Prime]

what is a VOX group?

[GeekyPenguin]

Originally posted by Optimist Prime
what is a VOX group?

It's an auxiliary of Planned Parenthood designed to promote their agenda on campus.

www.plannedparenthood.org/vox

[CarolinaCutie]

Check out the info on Liberty University... their dress code illustrations make me go

[Senusret I]

We had H*yas for Choice. Not recognized by the University, but active nonetheless.

[GeekyPenguin]

Originally posted by Senusret I
We had H*yas for Choice. Not recognized by the University, but active nonetheless.

Exactly what we're doing - they won't let us on, but they can't kick us off.

Interestinly enough, my school did kick off Campus Crusade 4 Christ for a while because they were yelling at the Jesuits.

So, like, do y'all have chapel requirements? Where you have to go to chapel a certain time each week?

That's funny to hear about a Campus Crusade for Christ getting kicked off campus. Maybe it's because i went to a college in the Bible Belt but i could never see that happeneing at A&M. The various Protestant student groups and College Repubs had a big profile on campus.

Kitso
KS 361

[Senusret I]

We had a theology requirement, but not chapel or any other non-academic requirements.

[KEPike]

I think you're thinking too much of BYU and Baylor. In speaking as a graduate of a Jesuit University, I'd say that on the whole the Society of Jesus is a pretty darn liberal group of religious.

At Rockhurst, there are all sorts of stories of the Jesuit residence having a liquor room with every libation imaginable. I've heard that other Jesuit schools have similar stories. They're all true.

[Senusret I]

Would it be slanderous if I said the president of my school felt my butt one time?

I don't think he meant it, though. He was telling me a joke, gave the punchline, laughed, and then just kinda patted me on the butt. I think he had been drinking.

[GRITS]

I go to a Methodist women's HBCU, and we do have chapel requirements, although we don't call it that but it is held in the chapel. ACES stands for Academic Cultural Enrichment Series and its during the 11 o'clock hour on Tuesday and Thursday(there are no classes at that time). We have formal convocations and programs, and to basically do anything on campus you must have sastifactory ACES point(75% of the points) Each program is given a point value between 1-3 and if you don't meet the requirements you can't be in a national sorority, run for Student Government or any other office, or graduate with honors.

We also have something called the Belle Honor Code, in which it just outlines that if you do anything to diminish the reputation of the school or degrade yourself, you will be kicked out without any second chances. We also have a zero tolerance policy on Fightind, drinking, smoking, etc.. Hope this helps!

[GeekyPenguin]

We don't have anything like a chapel requirement - we're required to go to Convocation as freshmen but that's it. The Baccalaureate Mass isn't even mandatory. We do have to take a minimum of 6 credits of theology to graduate (more in some colleges) but that's theology, not religious studies. If it weren't for the crosses in every classroom, I doubt you'd know I go to a Catholic school.