#prospective student

Hello Tumblr. This blog will be run over at blogger but I thought it would be nice to post here as well. 

The next year after Audrey Burget’s terrible treatment from Steve Pettit’s new-and-improved Student Life Division, after the GRACE report’s release, and after Steve Pettit’s assurance that BJU was safe. . . . and after BJU had hired a shiny new “Director of Student Care,” a young man from outside South Carolina enrolled at Bob Jones University,

WutBJU found his online diary hours after he had published it on Monday, September 28, 2015 at approximately 9pm. WutBJU reached out to the young man immediately and sent him names of safe adults in Greenville he could confide in if he chose to do so.

What was this student’s First-Year Experience at Bob Jones University?

He was in despair -- despair caused by the Steve-Pettit-sanctioned Student Life Division. His Admission Counselor convinced him he was a “good fit” for BJU, but when he got to BJU his dorm counselor convinced him “the longer I stay here the less religious I want to be.”

To this student who had been at BJU just one month, the rules were impossible to follow and focused on nothing but the institution.

He listed out his campus rule violations from that first month:

I watched TV.

I watched American football and ice hockey games.

I watched movies.

I listened to music.

I played video games.

And (the straw that broke the camel’s back of all things) I took a piece of pizza from the community fridge.

Taking that piece of pizza meant that he would have to be in weekly counseling -- “spiritual probation” is the campus word for it.

Can you live like that? Do you want to?

BJU has expanded its net for prospective students. It has managed to convince a new group of high school seniors and their parents that BJU will be a “good fit.”

This young man from 2015 was the same. His parents didn’t go to BJU; he wasn’t a legacy student. And how did he feel after one month? That the people around him were “land mines” ready to go off, but he had to stay because he needed “a good education.” 

You can read this student’s entire diary entry here. 

Read it and ask yourself, “Is BJU really for me? Do I want to have an education in dodging ‘land mines’? Or do I want an education where I learn how to live a good life?”

If you want to grow and be your whole self, BJU is not for you.