Student Kicked Out of College After Watching 'Glee': Fair or Foul?

While I agree to a point, the rules stipulate off campus activity. How does one think they are going to police off campus activity? Via teachers and students who want to uphold that code of ethics. One must realize this when they agree to that set of rules. The only part of the world that embraces diversity of culture and thought is the part that exists in your own mind. If there are no standards or ethics, then the party that believes opposite of you is going to get slighted and persecuted. As an example, if you believe in a pro homosexual movement, then you are against and will persecute people like Jews, Christians and Muslims that believe Homosexuality is wrong and a sin or at the very least seek to silence them and vice versa because you follow your moral conscious. No one can exist in a morally ambiguous world. You either hold to an objective moral code, or you are in a constant state of flux depending on which side has the majority of support. Anarchy and Chaos seem to follow suit historically. The great empires of our time rarely were conquered by force or over ran by revolt, more often than not, they became morally neutral and apathetic and their empires crumbled from the inside well before invaders from the outside got near their gates.

Anyone who watches "Glee" is subject to such.

If those are the rules then, ok. HOWEVER! This is the most ridiculous college. Since when does teaching me include controlling my life? And who do they think they are to have the audacity to even make rules that restrict off campus life? Really anyone who attends this college knowing the stupidity of it is asking for trouble.

Actually, a LOT of private schools do just that. They're just as interested in training individuals for more than just 'work' areas, but for real life as well. This is more and more found in religious schools... Students KNOW the rules before they go.

That's a private university, and, like most private institutions, they happen to have rules. These kinds of things wouldn't be allowed in a government institution, but they are in private ones because those are selected. He chose to go to that college, knowing all it would entail. Are the rules a little ridiculous? Maybe, but they're the rules, and you can follow them or leave.

I don't like Glee

but kicking somebody out for watching it is just stupid

I don't care what college you go to they cannot regulate your behavior off campus. What you do on your own time is your business.

Are you kidding? Is this Cold War-era China or the U.S.A.? Don't these guys care they're setting themselves up for uber-massive lawsuits and (probably) Federal charges over kicking someone out of school just for receiving communications from the outside world in any detectable way? Not shaving? Does he not have the right to the growth/decoration of his own person? This is "Legalized Kidnapping". I can understand the "being late" part, but the rest is complete horse-flop such as getting angry at a public service group aiming at ending rape/sexual abuse. Are you nut-jobs for real?

I know a lot of people like Glee and to get suspended over Glee is just downright stupid. People like what they like!

Don't go to a private college if they have rules that you don't want to obey. There are many other choices with less strict rules.

Maybe this guy will transfer to a college that doesn't shelter ADULTS and actually prepares them for the real world...

Totally fair.bju is a Christian school,with strict rules,tough tits to chris.he broke the rules,he paid the price

Well Bob Jones University is ridiculous and stupid! I went to a Christian school last year and hated it! Plus ALOT of the people at religious schools think that they were holier than thou and judged others.

Hate people like that

Yeah I do too

Say what you want, but Bob Jones University is NOT a public institution, it's a private one.

This has nothing to do with 'racism', this has everything to do with values, EVERYTHING to do with values. This school actually sits down and teaches students certain values. As long as the student (and teachers, and faculty) live by them, everything's kosher. The minute they stray from them, not so much.

Glee would most certainly violate this school's values system. NOT that I'm in agreement with the school, but the reality is that you have to live by the rules that are set forth. Yet another case of "I'll do what I want and whine like a little girl when I'm called on it".

Is it a religious school? Then yes but if it isn't then no.

BJU is in fact a Christian school, yes

The rules are the rules. The rules themselves are not necessarily very fair but they are clear and he disobeyed.

Kid should have had better taste xD But, it was foul. And what the hck? Are we freaking nazi's now? I'm NEVERRRR gong to a fascist school like that. Half of it I agree with, but the rest... Shenanigans. Can't control what a kid does at home or whatever. It's unconstitutional. However, Glee I hear oozes sex. So, OFF WITH IT'S (not his) HEAD!!!!

That's ridiculous. They are trying to control the students by writing them up just because they watch something that THEY don't approve of. I wouldn't attend that school if you PAID me to go!

Normally I'd cry foul, but he chose to go to that school, and those are their rules.

rules are rules.

according to the article, he wasn't expelled due to his love for Glee, so why put a misleading title? Glee was the cause for him breaking the rules/codes repeatedly and that is all.

because God forbid any student have a life outside of school!

If he agreed to certain rules as conditions for attendance when he enrolled there, why should he not fulfill them? He was an idiot to agree with those rules, though. There are other colleges.

I pushed foul by accident. If those are the rules and he agreed to them to go to school, of course they had the right to kick him out. If he wants to do whatever he wants, he can go to Berkley.

Rules are rules but who would want to go here

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What in the hell is that college teaching? How to be a mindless robot?

...I...love...Glee....

I honestly hate the show glee, but I wouldn't say expel kids for watching it. It's an utterly horrible show, but if the world says that they can expel students for watching it, then what's stopping them from expelling people for other stupid reasons? Like what music you listen to, or makeup, or if you wear the wrong brand of shoes or shirts. It's stupid.

It doesn't sound like this school is a good fit for him. Time to move on.

Bob Jones is a private religious school The administration can do as they please. Fundamentalists don't agree with homosexuality or overt sexual references. GLEE is full of that. So yes I agree with their ruling. That student should have figured he get booted for watching a show that just oozes sex and homosexual references.

No matter what it says in the student handbook, the school has no authority on what any student, professor, etc. does off campus. Take the Bob Jones Univ to court!

It's a private school, if he didn't want to obey the rules he could have gone to school somewhere else.

Actually yes they do. If they want to maintain good conduct amongst the students they are allowed to publish any rules deemed appropriate by various counselors and such. It's the school's right to prohibit their students from doing anything they regard as unacceptable. He knew the rules and chose not to follow them.

He knew the rules and a private university can make the rules it wants

1) He wasn't on campus, and what someone watches on Tv should not get them kicked out of college. 2) Wait, starting a group aimed at ending sexual abuse is bad?? What is wrong with these people???