Oral Roberts University Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! == Student life == The university's residential policy requires all unmarried undergraduate students younger than 25 to live on campus, although exceptions are made for students who live with their parents in the Tulsa area.<ref>[http://www.oru.edu/admissions/undergraduate/pdfdocs/intl_application.pdf "Undergraduate Application: Residential Policy"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527180451/http://www.oru.edu/admissions/undergraduate/pdfdocs/intl_application.pdf |date=May 27, 2010 }} ''Oral Roberts University'', September 18, 2009.</ref> Men and women are housed in separate dormitory facilities on campus with student access to housing of the opposite sex largely restricted. In addition to having a chaplain on every wing of each dormitory, there are also [[Resident assistant|residential advisers]] for each floor, who enforce curfew, take attendance at Chapel services, and serve as "go-to persons" for students on their floors. Every Monday night is a mandatory Hall Meeting at which announcements are made by dorm leadership.<ref>[http://webapps.oru.edu/new_php/alumni_and_friends/alumni/media/enewsletters/200901.php "Alumni Newsletter"] ''Oral Roberts University'', September 18, 2009.</ref> All students are required to sign a pledge stating they will live according to the university's [[academic honor code|honor code]]. Prohibited activities include [[lie|lying]], [[Profanity|cursing]], [[Tobacco smoking|smoking]], [[Alcoholic beverage|drinking]], and a range of [[Human sexuality|sexual acts]], including [[Homosexuality|homosexual]] behavior and sex outside marriage.<ref name="Oral Roberts University 2009">[https://webapps.oru.edu/slle/code-of-honor-pledge.pdf "Honor Pledge"] ''Oral Roberts University'', September 18, 2009.</ref> In early 2003, the student [[Social aspects of clothing|dress code]] was relaxed for the first time in 40 years and described as [[business casual]]. For most of the school's history, men were required to wear collared shirts and ties and women were required to wear skirts (an exception for winter months was added in 2000). In 2006, campus-wide dress code rules were eased further, allowing students to wear jeans to class and dress more casually in non-academic settings. Since 2009, men are allowed to have neatly trimmed facial hair. Restrictions on men's hair length were relaxed in 2013.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://web.oru.edu/flash_flipbooks/student_handbook/| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140420152138/http://web.oru.edu/flash_flipbooks/student_handbook/| archive-date = 2014-04-20| title = Student Handbook}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://alumniweb.oru.edu/oru%20alumni/right74.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060902221931/http://alumniweb.oru.edu/oru%20alumni/right74.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 2, 2006 |title=Ties and Skirts: Addressing the Issue |access-date=June 29, 2006 |publisher=ORU:Alumni Foundation }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page