No Eye Babies

This is the story of a totalitarian christian college (unaccredited) in Pensacola, FL. Making Eye Babies might be called flirting in the rest of the world, but at Pensacola Christian, looking at the eyes of a person of the opposite gender is strictly forbidden and can get you expelled (the official term for it is ocular intercourse; I don't know about you, but flirting is not what I think of when I hear the term ocular intercourse). Here are a choice few snippets but definitely read the article:

Movies are also forbidden, including those rated G. Music is restricted to classical or approved Christian ("contemporary Christian" artists are deemed too worldly). Students are allowed to watch television news at 6 o'clock, but that's it. The TVs are controlled by college employees, who flip a switch to black out the commercials, lest students see anything inappropriate.

There are three levels of official punishment at Pensacola (four, if you count expulsion). Students can be "socialed," "campused," or "shadowed." Students who are socialed are not allowed to talk to members of the opposite sex for two weeks. Those who are campused may not leave the college grounds for two weeks or speak to other campused students.

Students routinely turn each other in for violating rules and are rewarded by the administration for doing so. According to several former students, those who report classmates are more likely to become floor leaders.

Internet access was not restored until last year, and it comes with significant restrictions. There are a few hundred approved Web sites; students must ask permission to visit any other site. Amazon and eBay, for instance, are reportedly not on the approved list. Several students say they leave the campus to surf the Web.

This is one of those cases where, you know, as retarded as it is and sounds, we're lucky to live in a country where people are free to make retarded choices. Even for the most faithful, however, it's got to suck to pay to be treated this way, to subject yourself to un-appealable expulsion over the most basic of human behaviors, only to face the reality that you've spent thousands of dollars and years of time and effort to obtain credits that no other college will honor. Sucks for you, but I guess your reward will come in heaven ...