During semester breaks, groups of students travel to service locations. While chapels involve worship and faith exploration, convocations range from lectures to music performances to presentations by returned SST units. Full-time students are required to attend about half of the convocation and chapel events. To this end, Goshen College opposes sexual harassment and all non-marital sexual intercourse. Racial intolerance of any kind, tobacco, alcohol and illegal drug use are also forbidden, as are firearms and fireworks.
Dancing is permitted within certain guidelines.
Beyond these specific behaviors, any action that hurts or offends people, damages property or disregards rules is subject to disciplinary action because it violates community. Examples might include academic cheating, returning to campus intoxicated or open house hours violations. Our life together is a dynamic process. The standards we affirm here do not necessarily reflect absolute moral truths. But they are held widely enough in the Mennonite Church, which owns Goshen College, that we regard them as vital to our continuing productive life and work together.