BJU

October 24th, 2007

It’s not what you think it stands for, but the exact opposite. Don’t ask me where or how I found this. I just wanted to share it. I can’t imagine living under these rules as an adult. I’d be kicked out of Bob Jones (Amish) University before I even got enrolled. I don’t know if it’s really Amish, but after seeing the dress code it might as well be. Happy reading.

Residence Hall Life

• A student must live in one of the University residence halls unless he is living with parents or other close relatives (approved by the Dean of Men’s or Dean of Women’s office), is 23 years old or older, is married and over the age of 20, or is a graduate student.
• New students may request a particular roommate. Returning students may request for a friend to be on their hall or in their residence hall.
• For the sake of accountability, students must “check out” when they leave the campus. Students gradually acquire more freedom in this area as they become upperclassmen.
• Each night all students meet for prayer, either as a room or together with several other rooms.
• Students are required to be in their own rooms and quiet at 11 pm. All lights must be out by midnight.
• Students are required to keep their rooms clean and neat. Rooms are inspected daily.
• Facilities and furnishings:
  • Laundry facilities are provided.
  • All rooms are furnished with twin-sized beds, dressers, desks, closets, cupboards, sink, telephone, and blinds.
  • Local intranet and high-speed Internet access is available in each residence hall room.
• An email account is provided for each student. Due to the flood of objectionable content coming through outside email services, students may use only this filtered campus email system.
• All wireless Internet access that bypasses the BJU filters is prohibited. This includes accessing the Internet via cellular phone services (e.g., TMobile, Sprint, Verizon, etc.) and WiMax.

What to Bring

• List of what to bring
• Students may bring automobiles to campus. However, underclassmen (freshmen and sophomores) who are under 21 years old may use their vehicles only to drive home and for extension.
• Cell phones are permitted. Students will be instructed in cell phone etiquette.

What Not to Bring

• Posters of movie and music stars and fashion models are not permitted. The subjects of personal photos should not exhibit immodesty or inappropriate physical contact.
• 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).
• Televisions, DVD/videotape players and headphones are not permitted in the residence halls; computer DVD players may not be used to view movies.
• You may not possess or play computer and video games rated T, M, A, or E10, or having elements of blood and gore, sensual or demonic themes, or featuring suggestive dress, bad language, or rock music.
• Due to space considerations, appliances such as mini-refrigerators and microwaves are not permitted in residence hall rooms. A refrigerator and microwaves are provided in each residence hall.
• 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.

Student Expectations

Dress Code for Men

General Dress

• Hair must be cut in a traditional, conservative style–not shaved, spiked, tangled, or shelved. It may not be colored or highlighted.
• Sideburns should not extend past the middle of the ear. Men are expected to remain clean-shaven.
• Necklaces, earrings, and bracelets are not permitted.
• Hats may not be worn indoors except in the gym.
• Men are not permitted to get tattoos or wear body piercings.

Abercrombie & Fitch and its subsidiary Hollister have shown an unusual degree of antagonism to the name of Christ and an unusual display of wickedness in their promotions. In protest, we will not allow articles displaying their logos to be worn, carried, or displayed (even if covered or masked in some way).

Morning Dress–dress shirt (no denim/chambray) with tie, dress or neat casual pants (no jeans, cargo, carpenter, or sloppy pants), dress or leather casual shoes; sweaters should show shirt collar and tie knot (no sweatshirts).

Afternoon Dress–collared shirt (no crew necks), neat casual pants, dress or casual shoes (no slides or sandals), socks above the ankle, sweatshirts or sweaters.

Sunday Dress–coat, tie, and dress shirt; dress shoes; dress or dressier casual pants.

Recreation and Work Dress–jeans, t-shirts, shorts at athletic facilities (not as spectators at sports events), sleeveless athletic shirts (indoor activities only), socks required (including at work).

Dress Code for Women

Classroom/general dress consists of a dress or top and skirt; however, pants may be worn for some recreational activities. Shorts may never be worn outside the residence halls and fitness center.

Tops

• Tops must be long enough that the midriff is never exposed.
• Sleeves are required. (Sleeveless tops and dresses may be worn with a sleeved blouse, jacket or sweater underneath or over top.)
• Necklines may come no lower than four fingers below the collarbone.

Skirts

• Hemlines and slits or other openings should never come higher than the bottom of the knee.
• Denim skirts may be worn for casual dress (not to class or other professional-type events).

Pants

• Loose-fitting pants may be worn between women’s residence halls, for athletic events, and to homes in the area.
• Loose-fitting jeans may be worn in and between women’s residence halls and when participating in activities where the durability of the fabric is important, such as skiing and ice-skating.
• Low-riders are not permitted.
• Shorts may be worn only inside the residence halls and fitness center.

Ease

• All dresses, skirts, pants, and shirts must be loose-fitting, having a minimum of three inches of ease at bust and hips.
• An informal way to measure ease is to stand up straight and pinch the loose fabric on both sides of the hips or at the bust line. Without stretching the fabric, there should be at least a 3/4-inch fold of fabric on both sides.

Other

• Sheer clothing may be worn only when the garment underneath conforms to normal dress regulations.
• Hose must be worn whenever men students are required to wear a coat and tie (including Sunday morning worship services, recitals and productions after 6 p.m., Bible Conference and commencement activities).
• Combat boots, hiking boots or shoes that give this appearance are not permitted. Leather sandals, including those with a strap between the toes, will be permitted at times when women are not required to wear hose. Flip flops made of rubber, plastic, etc., are not permitted in public.
• Hairstyles should be neat, orderly, and feminine. Avoid cutting-edge fads and cuts so short that they take on a masculine look.
• Students are not permitted to get tattoos. Excessive makeup is not permitted. Earrings may be worn only in the lobe of the ear (maximum of two matched sets). All other types of body piercings are prohibited.

Please note the statement concerning Abercrombie & Fitch under Men’s General Dress.

Student Expectations

General Expectations

All chapels and classes are required, as are certain other activities, including weekly society meetings, Sunday morning Sunday school and worship service on campus (for residence hall students), vespers, artist series programs, and Bible Conference services.

Students are challenged to develop Christlikeness that is evidenced in consistent Christian character. To help each student to grow in Christlikeness, BJU has a reasonable, just, and firm disciplinary system.

Loyalty to Christ results in separated living. Dishonesty, lewdness, sensual behavior, adultery, homosexuality, sexual perversion of any kind, pornography, illegal use of drugs, and drunkenness all are clearly condemned by God’s Word and prohibited here. Further, we believe that biblical principles preclude gambling, dancing, and the beverage use of alcohol.

Dating and Mixed Groups

We want students to have wholesome social opportunities in a setting that provides accountability for biblical requirements of purity. It is with this in mind that we chaperon campus activities where men and women students are present and require a chaperon when students date or interact in a mixed group off campus.

Work

• Students may work in town until 10:25 pm on weekdays and midnight on weekends. Freshmen must have a prayer captain, assistant prayer captain, or upperclassman with them. Sophomores and upperclassmen may work alone.
• Freshmen and sophomores may not use their vehicles to go to and from work.
• Students may not serve alcoholic beverages when waiting tables at restaurants.
• Students may not do house-to-house sales anywhere in the Greenville area. Students offering services to the community must have a retail license or have clearance from the Dean of Students to do door-to-door solicitation for their services.
• Students may not miss nightly prayer meetings on weekdays.

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