Dirty Dancing - Finally After 143 Years!!!

[Duckster]

Wheaton College lifts 143-year dance ban

WHEATON, Illinois (AP) – Andy Morgan can’t dance, but he figured he was in no danger of embarrassing himself.

After all, he went to a high school that did not permit dancing. And when it came time to pick a college, he settled on a Christian school that had not allowed social dancing since the war. The Civil War.

“I’ve had a great excuse all my life,” Morgan said.

Not anymore.

Come Friday night, 21-year-old Morgan and as many as 1,200 fellow students at Wheaton College will gather in the gym for the first real dance in the school’s 143-year history.

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It was not until the 1960s that the school lifted the rule prohibiting students from going to movies. For generations, students were barred from dancing – on campus or off – unless it was with members of the same sex or a square dance. It was not until the 1990s that students and faculty were permitted to dance with spouses or relatives at family events such as weddings.

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"They MAY dance at Wheaton. Whether they CAN dance is another question."

(Emphasis mine.)

Oh, the shock and horror to dancing with someone of the opposite sex!!!

I wonder if Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey are available for lessons?

[Homebrew]

“For generations, students were barred from dancing – on campus or off – unless it was with members of the same sex…”

So they were encouraging homosexuality!

[Eve]

Yes, I recall the horrible scandal of 1860 that started all this, when Lola Montez grabbed president-elect Lincoln and did the Lambada with him . . .

[Olentzero]

I heard Lincoln got her to do the penetrada later.

“It makes sex look like church!”