[dmz]

The pledge I read does not prohibit a beer with dinner unless there was a University function you were required to attend within 6 hours of drinking that beer or you were inviting students over to have dinner with you.

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Apparently you did not read the whole thing.

4. I will not use alcoholic beverages in the presence of students, and I will abstain from serving, from using, and from advocating the use of alcoholic beverages in public (e.g. in locations that are open to use by the general public, including as some examples restaurants, concert venues, stadiums, and sports facilities) and in settings in which students are present or are likely to be present. I will not attend any University sponsored event in which I have consumed alcohol within the last six hours. Neither will I promote or encourage the use of alcohol.

[arrogantsob]

Apparently you can’t be a waiter/waitress in an establishment that serves booze.

[reg45]

I will not attend any University sponsored event in which if I have consumed alcohol within the last six hours.

That sentence awakens my inner grammar Nazi. Doesn't anyone proofread any more?

[American in Israel]

I really do not see it as a problem to ask someone who is in a position of leadership to have high moral standards. But it seems that the world sees it as a problem when someone has high standards.

I believe the bible puts it as such:

so as to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

1Pe 4:3 For the time already past is sufficient for you to have carried out the desire of the Gentiles, [fn]having pursued a course of sensuality, lusts, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties and [fn]abominable idolatries.

( So here you see that the pledge is not outside of what a BIBLE College would expect)

1Pe 4:4 In all this, they are surprised that you do not run with them into the same excesses of dissipation, and they malign you;

(Here you see the expectation by God that the general public will be freaked out and be abusive if you do not go along with their lifestyle)

1Pe 4:5 but they will give account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

(And here you see that being freaked out or being abusive towards someone else with higher standards will not work to excuse low morals. All people will still be Judged by a Holy God, the everyone else said it was OK excuse will not wash)

[Deb]

Its all tied to not influencing the students negatively and setting an example for them. I don’t see why that’s such a problem.