<p>I see that Notre Dame's punishment for getting caught having sex is expulsion...I'm not saying this is a deciding factor, but I hate to be restricted regardless of the situation, especially by something within my legal rights. How much of a problem is this, if at all, for the students? I love ND.</p>
<p>I have never heard of this. They have what are referred to as parietals, which is basically a curfew for having members of the opposite sex in your dorm room. I think it’s after midnight on week nights and 2AM on weekends. There is a reprimand process for breaking this rule but am pretty sure a first offense is not expulsion.</p>
<p>As long as you keep your door closed and are private how would anyone know what happens?</p>
<p>I know, I figured as long as the door is shut it’d be fine, but I wanted to make sure this wasn’t like a searched out thing…I don’t like to be restricted, as I said earlier.</p>
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<p>You’ll be expulled if you perform something that those idiots at SCum (Southern Cal) did, without question.</p>
<p>But as long as it’s not public, you’ll be okay.</p>
<p>Honestly, if you’re in a guy’s dorm, you really don’t have to worry much (Maybe with the exception of Carroll). In large dorms like Dillon or Alumni, it is not unsual to see parietals broken, especially on the weekends. Women’s dorms are the complete opposite. It is quite the double standard.</p>
<p>Parietals are a fact of life at ND, and if you REALLY hate being “restricted” in that way, you might be happier somewhere else. Keeping the door shut sounds like a good idea, but add some alcohol and a disgruntled roommate to the mix, and it’s a different story. At most other schools, no one would care unless it were a question of sexual assault, but ND is different in this regard, and students who can’t deal with that tend to be unhappy campers.</p>
<p>I agree with Clairemarie, if ND’s restrictions bother you, don’t go. Not only will you get in trouble, but so will the other person. Why put yourself in so much stress, looking for ways to “beat the system”? Go somewhere it doesn’t matter.</p>
<p>I figured that, I was mainly wondering what goes on on campus.</p>
<p>If it really bothers you that this is a rule, then you might want to avoid ND. Yes, it’s within your legal rights, but ND is a private school, so they get to make their own rules. That’s something that you do have to accept about ND (parietals and the ban on sex/condom sales on campus, etc).</p>
<p>That being said, it is college. People break all sorts of rules. And people have sex. Fewer people than at other colleges, but it happens. I have heard of people getting kicked out of their dorms for having sex after parietals, but I have never heard of someone actually getting expelled. Also, no one is going to “search out” people having sex. The only time I’ve heard of people getting caught is when they were being loud to the point where they disrupted their neighbors/were heard by people passing by in the hallway. Just close the door and try not to be too noisy. Hopefully you’d be doing that anyway…</p>