Crucifixes In Dorm Rooms

[TeresaBenedicta]

[quote name='fidei defensor' post='1941393' date='Aug 5 2009, 08:39 PM']I'm sure the drunk and rowdy types are the first to pay an arm and a leg to go to a Catholic university. Makes perfect sense to me.[/quote]

You'd be surprised. Mommy and Daddy have enough money to send their kids to a school where they can drink their worries away.

Yes, we're a party school. Is the school happy about it? No... But, it's getting better. We used to be much worse. As in, being rated by playboy as one of the top ten party schools in the US. We're not nearly as bad anymore. And, like I said, Catholic idenitity is way on the rise.

But, you've still got some of those rowdy bunch here.

[picchick]

[quote name='fidei defensor' post='1941393' date='Aug 5 2009, 07:39 PM']I'm sure the drunk and rowdy types are the first to pay an arm and a leg to go to a Catholic university. Makes perfect sense to me.[/quote]

I was one of the only kids to actually pay for my college the whole way through. Mom and dad helped me if I needed it but I paid in full everything.

Most of the kids I went with did not. Mom and dad paid their way and most didn't care that they did get drunk 3 of the 5 days.

[quote name='Winchester' post='1941396' date='Aug 5 2009, 07:43 PM']We're talking about Catholics, right?[/quote]

I think kabbalah

[thessalonian]

Whether they are Catholic or not, they know they are going to encounter it.

[allegra]

[quote name='Winchester' post='1941378' date='Aug 6 2009, 12:18 AM']Charge a Crucifix removal fee if they don't want it in there.[/quote]
I like that idea though...

I voted no to being forced upon a general permanent cruxifix for the sole and only reason given here: [quote name='ilovechrist' post='1941339' date='Aug 5 2009, 11:14 PM']not to mention... most of us have crucifixes from home that we treasure as personal and/or special. i'd much rather hang my own crucifix. and as cmom said--the school can easily decorate the rest of the building to their taste, since the dorm room is the only space by legal contract that is rented out to a student for the year.[/quote]
And if made removable, the dorm crucifix would surely end up in my drawer, on the nail hanging my own...

[VeniteAdoremus]

I voted yes, mostly because if I came in there on my first day, suitcase in hand, bunch of nerves... I would absolutely love it if there was a crucifix hanging in my room.

Even though I'd also bring three of my own (hey, they're my grandma's, my grandpa's, and a tiny one a friar gave me... it's not like I can choose!)

[Winchester]

There is no rule against multiple crucifixes.

And there is no human right to not be offended.

[T-Bone _]

I'd be afraid of desecration. Otherwise, I'd be all for it.

[let_go_let_God]

At the college I went to, all of the newer dorm buildings rather than having Crucifixes had the Benedictine Cross. It was "small" about eight inches tall and hung next to the main door. It was a simple reminder that we are a Benedictine College and should live our lives by the rule of St. Benedict.

Students could take them down, and I know a few that did, but they had to be back in place by the end of the school year.

God bless-
LGLG

[Kaeldra]

I dont think there's anything wrong with a catholic school putting a catholic symbol in their rooms, the issue I would have would be that some kids might desecrate it. So as much as I think its absolutely within their rights to put crucifixes up... maybe they should be wary of the danger in doing so.

[The Bus Station]

[quote name='Kaeldra' post='1941884' date='Aug 6 2009, 11:13 AM']I dont think there's anything wrong with a catholic school putting a catholic symbol in their rooms, the issue I would have would be that some kids might desecrate it. So as much as I think its absolutely within their rights to put crucifixes up... maybe they should be wary of the danger in doing so.[/quote]

My thoughts exactly.

[homeschoolmom]

I don't think there's anything wrong with a Catholic school doing so, but I agree that they could be damaged by students. I wouldn't put them in as a regular practice.

[Guest Duncan]

There is no reason why Christ should not be present in dorm rooms.

I don't know if the fear of desecration should hinder those from placing a symbolic display of the Universiy's beliefs. A Catholic school should display Catholic items wherever it chooses to do so. And hiding from the inevitable confrontation is merely that, hiding.

[Nihil Obstat]

They could put them up, then charge enormous replacement fees if the crucifixes were damaged or misplaced.
What poor starving college student is going to risk that?