 Posted Friday, October 30, 2009 4:34 PM
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I must admit that food, water, toothpaste, soap, toiletries and bathrooms were not mentioned, so perhaps a field trip to the college is in order to see if those amenities are still offered -- as they were when I was a student there, but I wouldn't want to base anything on personal experience that is 34 years out of date... I may have to actually attend Homecoming or a reunion...
So it sounds to me like those who say that avoiding medications, tobacco, and alcohol is not part of Church doctrine are the ones who are going with current culture rather than the actual code of conduct at Principia, anyway. The expectations at Principia, as outlined in the application, are exactly the same as when I started there in 1971, and also the same as when my grandfather attended the Upper School in 1924. I haven't seen any official documents from The Mother Church that have officially changed those expectations for the church at large, so I assume those expectations, whether in TMC's application or not, are the same as well. To join TMC, you have to be sponsored by either a teacher or a member, who then has to get a teacher to co-sign. In the year I joined, I was 16, and my aunt sponsored me and had her teacher sign. My understanding was that the sponsor(s) was saying to TMC that the person they were sponsoring for membership was following the religion and abstaining from all those behaviors as well.
Ann
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