Friday, March 25, 2005

Block that metaphor!

A professor at Loyola Univ. has likened coed dorms to brothels (rr -- userid hardbo8878@dodgeit.com / password hardboil) in an essay in Christianity Today. But don't blame his Jesuit employers -- he's Armenian Orthodox. Here's a choice excerpt:

Still, in most American college coed dorms, the flesh of our daughters is being served up daily like snack jerky. No longer need young men be wolves or foxes to consume that flesh. There are no fences to jump or chicken coops to break into. The gates are wide open and no guard dogs have been posted. It is easy come and easy go. Nor are our daughters the only ones getting hurt. The sex carnival that is college life today is also doing great damage to our sons' characters, deforming their attitudes toward the opposite sex. I am witnessing a perceptible dissipation of manly virtue in the young men I teach.

I got a little mixed up about who the foxes and who the chickens are in that extended metaphor, but I get the point: Loyola is Party Central. Sounds like somebody's not getting any!

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