<p>By weird meaning, unique to that University.</p>
<p>You bow down to people who go to Purdue since of their superiority.</p>
<p>There’s a football player at UCLA that transferred from Notre Dame. Rumor has it he was kicked out for streaking.</p>
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<li>No sex, or inter-gender’s coming within 10 feet of each other.</li>
<li>Breaking any of the Ten Commandments = 10 hour straight silent detention.</li>
<li>Commit any one of the Seven Deadly Sins and they force your parents to disown you.</li>
<li>If you give less than $10,000 per year as an alumnus, you get your degree taken away.</li>
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<p>That’s just about it I think.</p>
<p>Lol. Notre Dame has “parietals” - which are the hours that the opposite sex is allowed to be in your dorm room.
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<p>Dunno if you consider that “weird”. They’re very strict about it, from what I know.</p>
<p>Yeah, I had heard that but I wasn’t sure if it was true.</p>
<p>Believe me, it’s true. I have three friends at ND, all who come back describing their various escapades in the context of these bizarre, 18th-century Puritan rules. </p>
<p>On one such occasion, a friend of mine and his girlfriend were kissing in a common area when a staff person walked in and told them they had to separate.</p>
<p>Try visiting and see for yourself–rather than relying on second-hand info!</p>
<p>“Parietals” are not unique to Notre Dame–many Catholic schools have the same policy.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure most schools have visiting hours. Here at VT it varies by dorm but usually after 1am you’re not supposed to have anyone of the opposite sex in your room. It isn’t enforced at all though.</p>
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<p>No school I have ever been to has any sort of visiting hours rule.</p>
<p>In my experience they have the rules in dorms that have more than one person per bedroom (doubles, triples, etc.) so that if somebody is having their girlfriend or whoever stay the night and it’s bothering the other roommate, the RA has some basis to tell him to knock it off.</p>
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<p>We have a rule that your roommate has to consent to the guest being there, but there is no sort of rule that people have to be out at a certain time. Same way at boyfriends school, and all of my friends schools, too.</p>
<p>Yah, gender-based rules in particular are fairly rare (considering the archaic notions they are founded on), as well as rules regarding when (time-wise) a visitor is allowed in a dorm. Of course, every school has an established rule that states that if a roommate/floor resident has an issue with a guest, the RA has the authority to ask them to leave. </p>
<p>Now, I know at schools in rather unsafe neighborhoods/areas there are strict rules about accessing the dorms if you are a visitor.</p>
<p>The parietals aren’t just about visitors, though. They’re about having anyone at all of the opposite sex in your room, even if they go to ND as well.</p>
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<p>[snark]Why its fine for you to have sex with other people from 9am to 12am Sun-Th and from 9am-2am F-Sat. But heaven forbid you do it at any other time…[/snark]</p>
<p>I hate rules like this that try to preach morality. And it isn’t even effective at that…</p>
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<p>To be completely fair, people are choosing to go to a Catholic school, not a state public…</p>
<p>^^You are absolutely right! It is a choice…and if one does not agree with these rules, then certainly no need to apply.</p>
<p>I know must Catholic Universities have similar rules so it does not come as a shock.</p>
<p>I went to a Catholic school that had rules like that… and then I transferred out after freshman year primarily because the school treats the students like children (and the school wasn’t academically strong).</p>