Bob Jones University

BJU is a counter culture fighting to stay they way. They foster and promote students who express the show of conformity. Looking back with a little of life's prospective it was a hindrance to my growth toward God. So many good well meaning people fighting keep a form of righteousness and forgetting the message. The school is safe and clean, but the totality of the facilities is below standard. The hierarchy of student and facility police each other conformity through spying, innuendo, and intimidation. Misfits of any type are ground up and sent packing for the good of the many. Conform and survive, but better yet oppress and excel. The teaching faculty are truly kind people, doing their service. A fair number of the teaching elite don't deserve their position and are academically inbred and grandstanders. The student, business, and religious admistration contain the true believers. They with few exceptions are ruthless in maintaining the grip of philosophy. A few of these powerful people are strange and scary people caught up in their control. I found it difficult to conform enough to graduate. My last year was miserable. My education was purely academic and theoretical. The school actually opposed internships and on the job education. The school is very expensive and considering government grants and loans I should have went to an Ivy League School. They religiously cajole their students to keep attending (it's God's will) no matter how far in debt (self lent) their student get. Worst of all if you fail to finish, no schools outside the upstate will accept their non accredited credits. I receive quite a bit of negative attention interviewing and working when people discover I attended Bob Jones. Their bigoted views were a horrible testimony to God and now to my coworkers. I always avoid precise discussions of were I attended school.

Lastly, the final test, I would never consider sending my children to BJU.

4th Year Male -- Class 1997

Campus Aesthetics: A+, Innovation: F

I think the Lyrics To "Colour Code" by Steve Taylor are very interesting. Big BJ was considering legal action after the song was released.

We Don't Need No Colour Code
Lyrics
Down Carolina way
lived a man name Big B.J.
B.J. went and got a school
founded on caucasian rule
bumper sticker on his Ford
says "Honkies If You Love The Lord"
chorus:
We don't need no colour code
take your rules and hit the road
Judgment Day is goin' down
better burn your cap and gown
White man speak with forked tongue
white supremists eat their young
bigotry is on the loose
ignorance is no excuse
I know Jesus loves that man
even with a Greenville tan
(chorus)
Marching to Pretoria
colour codes in churches huh?
following a fascist creed
whose translation do you read?
true believers won't be snowed
we don't need no colour code(chorus)

Alumnus Male -- Class 2000