Geez, what the hell took them so long?

[The Brain]

<a href=http://www.cnn.com/2003/EDUCATION/11/14/wheaton.dance.ap/index.html>Wheaton College lifts a ban on student dancing that has existed since the Civil War.</a>

Part of the reason is that change, any change, does not come quickly or without great deliberation at this quiet campus 25 miles outside Chicago.

It was not until the 1960s that the school lifted the rule prohibiting students from going to movies. For generations, students were barred from dancing -- on campus or off -- <b>unless it was with members of the same sex or a square dance</b>. It was not until the 1990s that students and faculty were permitted to dance with spouses or relatives at family events such as weddings.

Nine months ago, the school lifted the ban altogether, freeing students to cut the rug on campus or off, at Chicago clubs or other places. (Wheaton also eased its ban on alcohol and smoking for faculty and staff. They can now drink and light up off campus, as long as it is not in front of undergraduates.)

First of all, they were only permitted to dance with members of the same sex???
:o

And secondly, how is they got away with instituting a doctrine on student behavior away from campus for so long? Frankly, what a student does once off campus, and no longer under the schools' influence, should be solely the concern of the student. I am amazed that anyone actually accepted this absurd notion that attending this school meant giving up all rights to such social activities regardless of where they were, or whom they happened to be with.