Elisha Dov Hack's essay, "College Life versus My Moral Code," speaks on the issue of Yale University's so called "loose" moral practices and the mandatory rule that students must live on campus (freshman and sophomore year). When reading Hack's essay, there's a clear contrast between Yale's "anything goes" residential attitudes vs. Hack's religious moral code. .
The essay presents three points which the author believes are essential to her argument. It is not the difference in school code vs. moral code, but rather the what the author feels she'd be missing by living on campus as it relates to her religion. These three parameters are exposure to campus acceptance to sexual individualism, familial values, ideas of sexual morality. .
The purpose of Hack's essay is to raise the question if a University's moral code differs from that of a student's, should he/she be allowed the freedom to satisfy their own moral code? Hack focuses on Yale's views of sexual morality rather than the argument that its students have the right to live off campus when their personal moral code doesn't match the standards set by the school. .
Throughout "College Life versus My Moral Code," Hack cites examples of the Yale's tolerance towards sexual individualism. She states, "Yale is proud of the fact it has no partial rules and that sexual morality is a student's own business." This quotes points to author's fear about living without guidelines. Like most religions, rules and regulations are part of the equation. Hack also shows discontent with signs posted in the dormitories that say "Safe Sex," and "100 Ways to Make Love Without Sex." .
The second parameter is familial values. According to Hack's essay, her parents, and the parents of other students, claim that, "Things were very different in the college dormitories in their day and that in most colleges in the 1950's, students who allowed guests of the opposite sex into their dorm room were subject to expulsion.