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Submitted by Richard Windsor on November 14, 2006 – 10:52 am6 Comments

Ignorance is a horrible thing my friends and it

Matthew Mac

Not gonna happen. When I was in college I played more Halo than did anything school related, and its not like they can do ‘surprise inspection’ to check rooms for contraband. This will work about as well as stoping underage drinking or drug use.
Subnet6

I may get bashed for my opinion but I’ll state it anyway.

First, I think bans like this are silly and ill-conceived. However, I completely respect the right of a privately controlled university to make rules like this. If schools can ban alcohol, or tobacco, (from legal users) or even ban swearing, this is pretty much more of the same in my mind.

As long as students are free to switch to a different school if they don’t like it, its hard to complain. If their policies hurt their admissions, they will likely change them.

As odd as it may seem, some kids actually go to religiously based universities to get away from some of the more “open” aspects of our increasingly secular society. I actually went to college with some kids who would actively seek out schools with this type of policy.

So, in the end, while I don’t like the policy itself, I respect the rights of an institution to set its own standards.
http://www.burtonposey.com Burton

I agree with subnet6,

It’s a private institution and the people are there to get an education with an emphasis on Christian value. If the students don’t want someone to lead them down that path of discerning what is right or wrong accoding to the Bible, then they probably would not have gone to that school.

“If they want to set a moral standard they should look at themselves first”

I’m pretty sure they’re doing that. One of the cornerstones Christianity is personal accountability to God. Now they may not be exercising that in practice, but I think to say that to justify your argument is totally irrelevant. That’s like saying you have a friend who is smoking crack, but you aren’t a perfect human being, so until you get that straight you have no authority to help that friend at all.

Thank you though for sharing the information about their decision. It’s neat how groups take a stand for something they believe in, just as we do as game designers and enthusiast.
Subnet6

“”If they want to set a moral standard they should look at themselves first”"

My guess is, the administration of the school responsible for this policy probably isn’t playing a whole lot of Gears. That being they case, they would seem to have themselves covered on this one, thus freeing them to be nasty judgemental little beings.

But, yeah, I agree with Burton too.
Sammael

I’m sure they also have bans on pornography, date rape, murder and the selling and use of drugs. Waste of time and money. If I was a student there I would be complaining about how the school board wasted time to debate such a silly issue and will now waste even more (if any) trying to enforce.

* watch, next we’ll hear it’s a school for the blind so it’s not even an issue.
DL

Yeah, that’s enforceable