Stampede to religious schools
I was awakened to my roommate 'tussling' on the top bunk bed. Only she wasn't alone. I got up from the bottom bunk, walked toward the door of our postage-stamp dorm room in the darkness, and without looking back, yelled loudly, 'When I get back, one of you had better not be here, and if the other is smart, she won't be here either.' By the time I came back from the suite's bathroom, they'd both gotten out.
That was more than a decade ago, but I thought of my Morrison Dorm memories and the rude awakening while reading about the unprecedented surge of growth and interest in religious schools, where nearly all forbid or discourage premarital sex or even holding hands, and others ban such staples as televisions in student rooms.
Graduates include doctors, lawyers, etc. -- not just sons or daughters headed into ministry.
If you attended or attend a religious college, fill the rest of us in on what's going on.
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I am a graduate of a religously affiliated college. Let me state emphatically that what happens at non-religiously affiliated colleges/universities happens in the "religious" ones as well!
While a student, I was in volved in Residence Life. I saw things that I had hoped I would not, yet knew that people are human and that we live in a "real" world, not an "ideal" one.
People only fool themselves when they believe that such things do not happen. I have friends who have attended other "religious" institutions, with much "stronger" religious mandates than my alma mater and the very same things happened at these that did at my alma mater.
The opening story is not so much a story about whether an institution is religious or not, it is more concernced with the respect roommates have for one another and their own self!
And one other point to note, many parents "strongly urge" their children to attend supposed "religious" schools for "appearance" sake. What many of these type of parents fail to realize is that the child may not hold to the mores that the parent does. Therefore, it is futile for the parent to believe that attending such a place will help the child live a more "wholesome" life!
Posted on February 15, 2005 12:35 PM