Socialization Process At George Fox Analysis

My overall impression of the socialization process at George Fox is that it is ethical, there is little to criticize. I chose to come to George Fox precisely because I wanted to be in a Christian environment. I did not want to be surrounded by alcohol, drugs, parties, and promiscuous roommates. While I find the university’s code of conduct and Resident Assistants to be ethical, the practice of clapping when the lights are turned off in the Bon is unethical. There are rules set in place from the start of Welcome Weekend intended to foster ethical and Christian behavior. On the first or second day after moving, there is a big area meeting where the Resident Assistants (RAs) outline some rules and boundaries that are expected to be followed while living on campus. These rules include keeping doors open when the opposite gender is in your room,
When someone accidentally turns off the lights in the dining hall, everyone gives them a big round of applause until someone realizes what happened and turns the lights back on. I have always found this rude and demeaning, some poor person accidentally leaned up against the wall by the ice cream freezer, turning off all of the lights, and are now being publicly shamed. This is a good example of a social cocoon, something that is encouraged and normal within the organization, but would not happen outside. I have never participated in this, and would consider it to be an unethical socialization practice. As for how to correct this practice, it would just take enough people to not participate for the custom to die out. People need to think about why they are participating, is it to embarrass someone or because everyone else is doing it? I do not think it is the clapping itself that is the problem but the reasoning behind it. Having a formal rule about it would be going too far in my opinion, as it is a minor