One of the interesting points about schools (and others who adopt similar tenets) is that there is still "culture" involved. The question is, which era, and what makes that particular era more right than another era.
The rules put forth by some of the schools we have been examining seem to stem back to 1940s - 1960s American (and more particularly, southern) church practice. I can imagine a culture of neat hair cuts; dark suit, white shirt, and colored tie; music from a hymn book, played by either piano or organ; and other cultural indicators of that era.
The funny thing is that all that stuff was also once "modern" and considered "sinful" by prior generations who had their own culture. There is no such thing as a universal "Christian" culture that is dictated by Scripture, but many have tried to make it so anyway.
I can only imagine how those culturally-locked schools might respond to someone like the Apostle Paul with his torn up body, stink from walking the world, wearing robes, sandals and such, instead of suit and tie, speaking in a language unfamiliar to most at the school, and calling people to true righteousness instead of social issues that take the place of the gospel.
There is a place for colleges to set down rules of conduct for students, but not of those rules are in fact nothing more than a forced enculturation to a bygone era, and that merely for the sake of retaining something that the oldsters who run and finance those schools remain comfortable in having.
I'm sure we'll reach the world with the gospel with that understanding... :BangHead:
