Christian university holds first-ever school dance

Students at John Brown University are swinging in a new era since the 87-year-old Christian school decided to allow dancing on campus.

The Student Government Association sponsored the Arkansas school's first dance ever on Friday.

For $2 a person, students danced late into the night to a 20-piece band.

John Brown's Board of Trustees changed the policy in October. The only exceptions to the old rule were folk or square dancing, or choreographed dancing as part of a dramatic presentation.

The new policy allows school-sponsored dances that are structured styles of movement, such as square, folk, salsa, line, waltz, swing and ballroom.

The university still forbids impromptu dancing, dance-parties in dorm rooms and freestyle dancing on campus.