Are these people for real?
Most colleges ban weapons and fireworks, including the very liberal university that I attended. Microwave ovens? Probably still banned in dorm rooms. They can get very messy. You don't cook in a dormitory room.
Televisions and video games are probably incompatible with education. At the college that I attended, I saw a few in the freshmen dormitory who had TVs (this was in the 1970s); all of them dropped out. There was a TV in common areas, and most of us had programs that we watched -- evening news, the World Series, and perhaps one or two sitcoms (like
The Odd Couple) Movie going? There were movies, but they weren't run-of-the mill material; they came through a projector on Friday night, and they included, as I recall,
Citizen Kane,
Bonnie and Clyde, and
The Battleship Potemkin. More than one movie a week? Nobody can study eighty hours a week, but one must dedicate too much time to watch random movies.
Music is a different matter. The time suggests that it was either (now) Classic Rock, folk, rhythm-and-blues, jazz, or classical. There were no video games for anyone then other than Pong, and we had no use for it because it was boring.
Bob Jones University sounds like a place in which one could get a supposed education but come out utterly naive. No movies? Movies are the definitive 20th-century art form as literature with pictures. Sure, they often distort reality; so did Michelangelo, so did Rembrandt, so did Degas, and so did Vincent van Gogh. No jazz? One misses something. I'm surprised that Bob Jones University doesn't explicitly ban opera and classical music. Bob Jones is not a Catholic school, so I can imagine what it would do with recordings of Mozart's
Requiem and
Mass in C.
Why does college exist, and why would anyone spend thousands of dollars that could be used for retirement funds or outright hedonism? I always thought that it was for preparation for adult roles in life -- which implies meeting people with values and desires very different from one's own? After college there will be all sorts of music, and one might as well know something about music before one leaves college. Movies? The ability to discern trash from gold is an essential trait of adulthood.
There will be moral challenges, and only those who know what the snares of the Devil are can effectively avoid them.
If you want a good Christian education, then go to Notre Dame.
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