March 7, 2003

Footloose and Still Faithful

By WILL POTTER

It took 143 years, but officials at Wheaton College have finally concluded that dancing will not damage the spiritual or physical well-being of students at the Illinois institution.

Last month, Wheaton's Board of Trustees voted unanimously to lift a ban on that activity that has been in place since the college's founding, in 1860. The vote followed a year in which trustees at the evangelical college scoured the Bible for guidance and officials canvassed students and faculty

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