The DiUlus Institute Student Handbook perhaps can be counted on by DiUlus Scholars to be the shortest document they are required to read and understand during their time at the Institute. Assuredly, it is among the most important. What follows are three short sections. Each section of this handbook has to do with an important aspect of the Institute and its relationship with its Scholars.
 

The Handbook is a lot like a stool with three legs. If any one of three does not hold up, the stool cannot stand on its own. Yet, with all of them in place, it is solidly on the ground. The three legs of this Student Handbook, are The DiUlus Scholars, The Diulus Institute Faculty, and the management of the Institute itself. Together all three must be solidly grounded to help capture the goal of the school, its faculty, and students to eliminate ignorance in the world and address head-on the needs of the poor of the world.

It is therefore essential that the student learn a new way of describing the "poor". It is one that has been lost over the centuries and with the word "poor" taking on a very narrow meaning, a meaning that was not intended originally. The historical definition of "poor", in the sense that the Institute uses it, does not mean the description of one who is economically deprived although it is the one most commonly used today.

However, what the Institute means by "poor" is in a very real sense much more broad and dates back to the early Christian era. It is a definition that is far more inclusive and goes back to a time when it meant something entirely different than today; a definition that is over 2000 years old.

The Institute "poor" includes all economic levels and describes a person who is humble of spirit and/or one who is without power, a power that is derived from political or economic circumstance, This "poor" person thus evidences a rock solid spirituality without pretense where all humans are treated with respect and their strong values keep them always in deference to the needs of their fellow human beings. Such moral traditions are found at the grass roots of all major religions today. This fundamental truth has unfortunately been overlooked and discarded by those who would find the ways of 'terror and mayhem' as their way to either salvation or peace.

The "poor" as described here in our adaptation of the expanded meaning demonstrate by their actions moral traditions and fortitude that evidence a strong desire to do no harm yet they are driven and propelled by their own desire to do good in the world. Their humility is not false nor hidden behind the facade of piety. 

These values inspired individuals have no real power, nor do they particularly seek it. But, by their lives and their contributions, we find they will often surface as non-power seeking learners who, by their strength of character and humility, are endowed by society as "quiet" leaders. Their one overriding attribute is that they "see", and then, they "do". Thus power,if any, that falls to them, comes from no human authority or is it granted from a political referendum. Their influence will, never the less, bring good to the world. If they indeed do this, then as Mother Teresa said, the PEACE will come. This is the Ideal DiUlus Scholar.