Tobacco and alcohol are banned. Every student is also issued a laptop computer and classrooms are wired to the Internet. Casual dating is discouraged. Instead there are formal rules of courtship. Student couples agree, as part of the Honor Code, to pursue relationships only under terms acceptable to both sets of parents.
Housing is rigidly single-gender.
Boys can't visit girls' dorms. Girls can't visit boys' dorms. A student at Patrick Henry College takes advantage of the fact that event the dining hall has Internet access. Every student is issued a laptop computer and all classrooms are wired to the Internet. The campus is nestled on 43 acres of rolling pastureland in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.