Dorm Life

The College strives to create a Catholic community life for students on campus that will nourish and serve the intellectual and moral formation it is engaged in. Taking the society of the extended family as its model, the institution is committed to maintaining a residential college on a humane scale, a college in which every faculty member and student may be known personally to one another. From the founding, the upper enrollment limit has been set at 450. Small classes, in which participation is encouraged, are the norm. One often sees students and teachers engaged in animated debate or serious discussion walking around campus or in the Commons.

Certain broad rules order this community life according to Christian principles, thereby helping students to do the same with their own lives. Far from being onerous or arbitrary, these rules are conducive to moral living and arise from considered decisions and from long experience.

All students normally are required to board on campus and take meals in common in the College refectory. Dorm facilities for men and women are separate and are under the supervision of resident assistants, responsible older students chosen by the administration to ensure that students observe the rules and to aid and solace their classmates by word and deed. The atmosphere of the dorms is home-like and conducive to social interaction and intellectual badinage, the beginnings of friendship.

While intervisitation in the dormitories is not permitted, there are ample opportunities for social and academic intercourse in the common areas. Weeknight, and more liberal weekend curfews are enforced for freshmen and sophomore students under the age of 21.

Rules governing dress on campus encourage modesty and civility. Adherence to professional dress code is required in class, at mid-day Mass and meal, for Sunday observances, and at special events and banquets. Less formal apparel is common at other times.

Rules and Regulations on campus

Christendom's rules and regulations governing student life are intended to help students stay on the narrow road and not get caught up in immoral activity. Below are a sampling of them.

• No alcohol on campus, except for officially sponsored events, and even then, students 21 years or older are limited in what they can drink.
• A professional dress code for class, Mass, and lunch.
• A modesty dress code at all times
• No TVs or internet in the dormitories. Students may have computers in their rooms, there is simply no internet access available to them in the dorms.
• No intervisitation between the men's and women's dorms
• Curfew for freshmen and sophomore students who are under 21
• No R-rated movies allowed on campus.

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