Editing Bob Jones University (section)

===Extracurriculars===
[[File:DavisFieldHouse.JPG|thumb|Davis Field House]]

After BJU abandoned intercollegiate sports in 1933,<ref>{{cite book|last=Turner|first=Daniel|title=Standing Without Apology: The History of Bob Jones University|page=41}}</ref> its intramural sports program included competition in [[soccer]], [[basketball]], [[softball]], [[volleyball]], [[tennis]], [[badminton]], [[flag football]], [[table tennis]], [[racquetball]], and [[water polo]]. The university also competed in intercollegiate [[debate]] within the [[National Educational Debate Association]], in intercollegiate [[mock trial]] and [[computer science]] competitions, and participated at South Carolina Student Legislature.<ref>BJU Catalog (2008–09), 323–27; [http://greenvilleonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080424/NEWS01/80424091/-1/YOURUPSTATE "BJU debate team wins national award"]{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, ''Greenville News'', April 25, 2008. The BJU debate team "received NEDA's President's Award three years in a row in recognition of the school's outstanding debate program". "Investing in Lives for Eternity", BJU Advancement brochure (2008), 6, Bob Jones University Archives, Mack Library.</ref> In 2012, BJU joined Division I of [[National Christian College Athletic Association]] (NCCAA) and in 2014 participated in intercollegiate soccer, basketball, cross-country, and golf.<ref>[http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20111206/SPORTS/312060019/Bob-Jones-University-ready-establish-athletics-program?odyssey=nav%7Chead ''Greenville News'', December 6, 2011]{{dead link|date=March 2015}}.</ref> The teams are known as the Bruins.

The university requires all unmarried incoming first-year students under 23 to join one of 45 "societies".<ref>''BJU Catalog, 2011–12'', 243.</ref> Societies meet most Fridays for entertainment and fellowship and hold weekly prayer meetings. Societies compete with one another in intramural sports, debate, and Scholastic Bowl.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bju.edu/life-faith/societies/ |title=Societies &#124; Bob Jones University |access-date=December 23, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151224103808/http://www.bju.edu/life-faith/societies/ |archive-date=December 24, 2015 }}</ref>  The university also has a student-staffed newspaper (''The Collegian''),<ref>[http://www.bju.edu/collegian/ The Collegian Online] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060511184818/http://www.bju.edu/collegian/ |date=May 11, 2006 }}</ref> and yearbook (''Vintage'').<ref name="BJU Catalog, 2011–12, 244">''BJU Catalog, 2011–12'', 244.</ref>

[[File: Bob Jones University Fountains.png|thumb|right|Location of the world record for most carolers]]
Early in December, thousands of students, faculty, and visitors gather around the front campus fountain for an annual Christmas carol singing and lighting ceremony, illuminating tens of thousands of Christmas lights.<ref>Jeanne Petrizzo, [http://www.bju.edu/collegian/index.php?issue=84&article=833 "Nearly 100,000 lights to illuminate campus"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527152841/http://www.bju.edu/collegian/index.php?issue=84&article=833 |date=May 27, 2010 }} ''Collegian'' article</ref> On December 3, 2004, the ceremony broke the [[Guinness Book of Records|Guinness World Record]] for [[Christmas carol]]ing with 7,514 carolers.<ref>[http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=58128 Guinness World Records] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141216212809/http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=58128 |date=December 16, 2014 }}. In November 2007, BJU also broke a previous record (set a year earlier in [[Rochester, New York]]) for the largest [[kazoo]] ensemble. That year during the annual Turkey Bowl game in [[Alumni Stadium (BJU)|Alumni Stadium]], 3,800 students, staff, and visitors played kazoos as part of the halftime entertainment. [http://www.greenvilleonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008307250010 "BJU enters Guinness Book for second time"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141216212809/http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=58128 |date=2014-12-16 }}  , ''Greenville News'', July 25, 2008.</ref>

Before 2015, the university required students and faculty to attend a six-day Bible Conference instead of a traditional Spring Break.<ref>BJU Catalog, 2007–08, 320–21.</ref> However, the university announced that beginning in 2016, it would hold the Bible Conference in February and give students a week of Spring Break in March.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bju.edu/events/calendar/year-overview.php|title=Year Overview|website=Bob Jones University}}</ref> The Conference typically attracts fundamentalist preachers and laypeople from around the country, and some BJU class reunions are held during the week.<ref>BJU Catalog, 2007–08, 326, 329.</ref>