Comments on Revelations: Dancing banned at Suburban Seattle college
Merlin Quiggle is now my new fake name for everything.
Why does she continue going to school there?
Some people just can't see the forest for the trees.
"We're not in the Dark Ages on this."
Funny stuff, Merlin.
I can think of a few "choreographed movements" that can be performed solo, but I don't know if they're permitted at Kook Kollidge or not.
I have a friend who's Apostolic and her church also outlaws dancing. She got married last summer and I thought it was sad that there was no dancing or music at her reception. There was also no booze and consequently the party was pretty much over after about forty-five minutes. I would have thought ballroom-style dancing between married couples would be acceptable, but she said it's not.
I believe SPU also bans dancing.
Even the Mormons allow dancing! The Mormons!!! (Although enough space for the book of Mormon must be between you and your partner at all times.)
I went to SPU in the 80s, and dancing on campus was verbotten. It made a nice black market for entrepreneurs to organize "functions" off-campus, which were probably more fun than sanctioned and sanitized events would have been. Nobody would have been punished for dancing off-campus, but drinking, even for adult students enjoying wine moderately during family dinners off-campus, would have brought the hammer down.
A quick Google suggests that the school legalized organized social dancing in 2001, but with strict guidelines. Way to join the new century.
Great, now I have Footloose stuck in my head.
Hee! They showed Footloose on campus when I was at SPU, with no sense of irony whatsoever.
Nevermind, I replaced it with Lisa Kudrow in Romy & Michelle's High School Reunion singing Footloose and getting all the words wrong.
Whew.
"Evegreen State?" WTF? It's Evergreen or TESC or nothing!
GOD FUCKING DAMMIT!! Merlin Quiggle was going to be my porn name!
TESC Grad 1990
When Texas Baptist University came to my high school college fair, my best friend and I thought it would be fun to ask them about their dances, but the old man didn't seem to get the joke. He said they didn't have them, and that he liked to do the foxtrot himself.
I once went to some phish shows with a Northwest University student. I think the dancing (can you call it that?) would have been the least of the administrators concern.
I hooked up with a guy from Northwest once, to watch a movie in his dorm room on campus. He was pretty nervous at first of course, but after I warmed him up a little, he seemed to relax and really enjoy eating my ass for a good hour before gulping down my load and then shooting his wad perhaps 7 feet over my head onto the wall behind his bunk beds. I still don't know how a he could stand going to school there, but he kept at it and eventually graduated.
Other highlights from their website:
- A program to hand out free water at fitness clubs (??) and free donuts to passersby (well maybe that, as a Kirkland resident, I can get behind!)
- No porn (strictly monitored internet).
- No rated R movies in the dorms.
- Strict chapel attendance, with obsessively detailed rules including failure for the semester if you leave after checking in.
- Ban on unwholesome literature or posters, unlean rooms, unmodest dress, and profane language.
Graduates will be the model of maturity, I'm sure.
wow, nice little homoerotic blurb there!
I like the fact that on their website where they list 50 things to do in Seattle, #12 is to hang out on Broadway
And in other news, people are different!
(From one who suffered at a school much like SPU, with many acquaintances at far worse schools than SPU or Northwest.)
I have fond memories of browsing Liberty's student manual while breaking a plethora of my own school's rules.
lark news isn't an actual christian church newspaper, it's a satire
That's satire? I'll remove the link, but it's a sad state of affairs when I can't tell the fake evangelist wingnuts from the real ones...
You know why Baptists aren't allowed to have sex standing up?
Might lead to dancing.
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