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A former student at Liberty University has gone viral for sharing some of the things she was written up for during her time at the Evangelical school.
TikToker Janay_22, whose first name is Janay, posted the video on New Year's Eve and it has now been viewed almost one million times.
She begins the video with the words "All the ways I was charged $$ and/or written up at Liberty University," overlaid on the screen. She then goes on to list the ways she was reprimanded over her four years as a student varying from neglecting to make her bed to watching The Hangover.
Liberty University was founded in 1971 in Lynchburg, Virginia by Jerry Falwell, a televangelist, pastor and the founder of the Moral Majority, a conservative political lobbying group that was active throughout the 1980s. The school is now one of the world's largest Christian colleges in terms of student enrollment.
In 2015, the year Janay said that she graduated from the university, The Washington Post reported that some revisions had been made to the school's code of conduct.
"Couples can now do more than hold hands in public without fear of fine, men can wear ponytails, and students can watch R-rated movies (with "caution")," according to the Post article.
The school's code of conduct is called the "Liberty Way," the Post explained and despite some revisions, Robert Mullen, the dean of students at the time said they were not large changes.
The Post reported that at the time that "The Liberty Way" maintained "a few more strict, traditionally Christian regulations," which are still featured in the version listed on the school's website today.
According to the document on the Liberty University website, "sexual relations outside of a biblically-ordained marriage between a natural-born man and a natural-born woman are not permissible at Liberty University."
"While mental thoughts, temptations and states of mind are not regulated by The Liberty Way, statements and behaviors that are associated with LGBT states of mind are prohibited," the document continued.
Janay says that one of the things she was reprimanded for was not taking out her trash before convocation. At Liberty University, convocation takes place each week and every student is required to attend, though each student can skip one convocation each semester, according to the university's site.
Another offense Janay noted was wearing leggings with a shirt that was "not long enough."
Janay says she also got in trouble for watching the 2009 film The Hangover, as it was rated R. As noted by the Post, this restriction was lifted, though the code of conduct still says movies rated "X", and "NC- 17" are not permitted.
"Which one is the craziest to you?" Janay wrote as the video ended.
In a follow-up video, Janay responded to a comment asking, "Respectfully why did you pay to go there?"
She explained that she grew up in a small town "like 45 minutes away from civilization" and Christian. She said after visiting Liberty she "fell in love with it."
"I'm sure this is going to blow your mind, but I actually wanted the structure that Liberty provided," she said. "My senior year of high school I was getting way over my head with partying and I enjoyed it way too frickin' much. I knew that I needed something like Liberty."
She says in writing overlaid on the video that she did think some of the "petty rules" would likely be overlooked though found she was mistaken.
"There's a lot of good and a lot of bad with Liberty," she said. "I'm not going to go into detail about everything you guys know a lot of it yourself."
Newsweek contacted Janay and Liberty University for comment.
