Furthermore, we pledge ourselves as faculty and administration to encourage students, staff members, and the wider Christian community to use language and illustrations which include women and men in teaching, writing, witness, and worship. Standards of Conduct As a community of future leaders of the Christian Church, Trinity seeks to maintain high standards of integrity in all areas of life, including academic work, ministry, and community relationships. Given these objectives, students are expected to maintain appropriate personal standards and use wise judgment in matters pertaining to personal conduct. Any set of community standards may contain elements with which some of its members disagree. Practices which are specifically forbidden in Scripture will not be condoned, such as dishonesty, theft, premarital sex, abortion, adultery, homosexual behavior, use of pornography, profanity, gossip, racism, and infringement upon the rights of others.
Scripture explicitly teaches respect for governmental authority.
Students are therefore expected to uphold the laws of the local community, the state, and the nation except on those occasions where an obedience to civil authority would require behavior directly in conflict with other Scriptural principles. In a Christian academic community, academic dishonesty, including cheating, plagiarism, and misappropriation of library materials, is regarded as a serious violation. Abuse of one's body is inappropriate for a Christian. Accordingly, students will be required to refrain from the possession or use of harmful substances such as tobacco, non-prescribed stimulants and depressants, and hallucinogenic drugs. They are not allowed.