Religion: All That and Billy Graham Too

At Wheaton College, a rare blend of brainpower and piety

As school reopened last week, Dormitory Counselor Philip Lance had only one problem: "There's some guy at the end of the floor who I think is chewing tobacco." Lance will just talk with the misguided fellow this time, but if the chewing persists he could face expulsion. By modern campus standards, it is a quaint worry, but Illinois' Wheaton College is unabashed in preserving a Garden of Eden moralism that has long since vanished from most campuses. Wheaton ground rules: no cheating, no...

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