The University of Chicago is sponsoring a Sex Week that it promises will go “far beyond typical sex education” with workshops including “Great Oral Sex with Tea Time and Sex Chats,” “Anal 101,” “The Perfect Vagina,” “Sex Ed for Kids” and a play titled “Genitalia the Musical.” Over $5,000 from student fees will fund the event. Included will be instructions on how to take nude photos. The University was founded by American Baptists with a gift from John D. Rockefeller (a Baptist) on land given by Marshall Field. I’m surprised that American Baptists have not torn that school down one brick at a time.

At Yale’s Sex Week, a porn star stripped down to bare breasts and attached devices to her breasts as an example of sadomasochism. She led another student around the room in handcuffs. Those “educators” also encouraged an open discussion of incest, bestiality, prostitution, and consensual pain during intercourse! Sex Week is so “educational,” it has been adopted at Harvard, Brown, Duke, Northwestern, University of Illinois, and the University of Wisconsin.

Tufts University got tough and decided to come down hard on sexual activities in dorms: they outlawed sex in dorms–if a roommate is present! After all, it interferes with their studying, sleeping, etc., so no sex unless the roommate is absent. One university official said that the university did not want to impinge on the sexual rights of students, but after all, there must be a limit. Yeah, a limit.

Informed people are aware that the media, professional organizations, and especially academia are preparing America for a society where anything goes, especially if the word, “consenting” is added. Note that it used to be “consenting adults.” Not now. We are told that children have a right to sex, even sex with family members! We are being “softened up” for the day when anything is accepted. We are almost there now.

To “help” with sexual performance, the University of California sponsored an event entitled “Is There a Buzz in Your Bed,” which has the goal of teaching students about “various sex toys” and different ways “to play as a couple or alone.” Well, at least the radical professor will not be teaching economics, the Constitution, basket weaving, etc. But then, the class will not help students get ready to work. Play, yes–work, no.

Other mindless courses are taught at the University of California such as “The Psychology of the Lesbian Experience.” California is bankrupt but the taxpayers are funding such nonsense.

But, it gets worse. The University of Minnesota is sponsoring a seminar for “orgasm aficionados and beginners of all genders” to discuss their sex lives. The Minnesota school says the seminar is for all, “whether you want to learn how to have your first orgasm, how to have better ones, or how to help your girlfriend.” Not to be outdone, Illinois University is bringing a porn star to teach a sex orgasm workshop! Every tax dollar should be withdrawn from those schools.

Dirty Bingo seems to be the rage in some universities where, under the color of “safe sex,” students have a lot of “fun” and win sex toys as prizes. At North Carolina State University, the prizes are purchased from mandatory student funds. A university spokesman said “Dirty Bingo offers “a new innovative way to do safe sex education on campus.” Yeah sure.

At a national meeting of Women’s Studies, in Denver, a professor described herself as “a self-identified queer, fat, vegan.” She refuses to drink milk because of feminist principles (ah yes, a principled feminist professor). She said, “Dairy is a feminist issue. Milk comes from a grieving mother….no human can be free while other species are oppressed.”

Loonies are running universities and you are paying them to do so either with tuition or taxes. Maybe both.

From the nation’s heartland, the University of Missouri will have a class that examines the deployment of erotic desire, love, and sympathy as political, economic, and textual strategies, and analyze the gender dynamics involved in such deployment.” It is a class dealing with “sibling incest.” Isn’t that nice? They’re showing an interest in family values! Scumbags.

The University of Michigan has a class called “How to Be Gay 101”; however, it’s said that kids are “gay” by birth. If so, why must they be taught how to be gay? Is this how they look? Feel? Act? They say they can’t help being “gay,” then why would one need to be taught how to be “gay”? Really!

Again, the University of Michigan’s course “Topics in Literary Studies: Ancient Greek/Modern Gay Sexuality” has students reading a “wide selection of ancient Greek (and a few Roman) texts that deal with same-sex love, desire, gender dissidence, and sexual behavior.” Oh, goody! How educational! That seems to rival Swarthmore College’s class of “Lesbian Novels Since World War II.” Wow, how exciting. I sure didn’t have such courses when I was in college. It’s no wonder I’m so uncultured, uneducated, and unqualified; however, I’ve never been unemployed!

Cornell University offers literature students a challenging, exciting course, “Bodies Politic: Queer Theory and Literature of the Body.” Students will discuss, “How do concepts of perversion and degeneration haunt the idea of the social body?” and “How are individual bodies stigmatized, encoded, and read within the social sphere?” Well, I’ve always wondered about that, myself. Maybe I could monitor that course.

Harvard University (founded by Bible-believing Christians!), one of the most prestigious and expensive Ivy League schools in the nation, granted official school recognition to a BDSM sex club. BDSM means “bondage, discipline, sadism and masochism”! No big deal since other major schools such as Yale, MIT, Tufts, Columbia, and the Iowa State University all have S&M clubs. I suppose they think if they’re going to play rough, they need to learn the ropes! Or chains. Harvard is also the site of an “incest-fest” party which a prominent hall hosts each winter.

Some shallow parents want their children to be taught in a sexually charged atmosphere since we are living in a sexploited age, but that’s like working in a bar so they won’t be alcoholics.

The above examples of “miseducation” will not help graduates pay their light bills but it will teach them to have “fun” in the dark. Isn’t education great!

If one is finally graduated from one of these so called universities and maintains some dignity, discernment, and decency, they can sing full-throatily, “Free at last, free at last, Praise God almighty, I’m free at last.”

Copyright 2013, Don Boys, Ph.D.

In early 1637 in the Netherlands, ordinary tulip bulbs (that bloom for about a week in the spring!) sold for more than 10 times the annual salary of a skilled worker! A few years earlier, Muslims had introduced tulips to Europe and the unique flower increased in value until a single tulip could be traded for a large estate! Everyone seemed to be caught up in the mania. Not only those of political clout, rich families, and those of noble birth but also farmers, sailors, clothes-washers, chimney-sweeps, and servants were caught up, proving there are fools in every strata of society.

Usually tulips never traded hands; only contracts (now known as futures) and foolish people sold everything to purchase a tulip contract. Then the price began to quickly slide as the first in were the first out (with the cash) and the last out were left holding a wilted tulip. The expensive flower was finally worth an ordinary onion! The bubble had burst causing pain, pathos, panic, and pandemonium.

“Tulip mania” is now often used to refer to anytime the present value of something varies greatly from the actual worth. We see that today in college education.

Even top-rated schools with billion dollar endowments and expensive buildings sell courses to gullible students that would embarrass school founders: “Sex and Death”; “Feminism Studies”; “Frisbee Throwing”; “Afro-centrist Studies”; “Black Lavender: A Study of Black, Gay, and Lesbian Plays and Dramatic Construction in the American Theater”; “Bodies Politic: Queer Theory and Literature of the Body”; and “Feminist Biblical Interpretation”!

But it gets “worser and worser.” Your student can choose to study “The Politics and Aesthetics Of Black Queer Formations” at Princeton University; “Lesbian Lives” at DePaul University; “Prostitution and Social Control: Governing Loose Women” at Oberlin College; “Mad Dogs, Vampires and Zombie Ants: Behavior Mediating Infections” at Vassar College; “Possessive Investment In Whiteness” at Stanford University; “How To Win A Beauty Pageant” at Oberlin College; “Politics of Obesity” at University of California at Santa Cruz; and “The Survival of the Whitest: Two Centuries of Racism And Evolutionary Theory” at Brown University. Hurry before these classes fill up. They’re much more fun than trigonometry, biology, accounting, and History of Western Civilization.

Duke University has announced that it will raise student fees so it can pay for sex change costs up to $50,000 for any student! Why would any sane person send a child to such a school? Oh, yes, I believe they have a basketball team!

A Tennessee school has done worse! A lesbian bondage expert who wants to show students “how to turn up the heat on our own sex drives” and a campus-wide condom scavenger hunt are among the activities planned for the University of Tennessee’s first-ever “Sex Week”– an event paid for in part by student fees. Hundreds of thousands of Baptist taxes are funding that week!

Shockingly, there are numerous Christians who are thrilled to have their children enroll in such schools! I would be embarrassed and I sure would never pay tuition.

I’m not anti-education in the least; after all I have a doctorate in education and a Ph.D. All my children are college graduates, some with advanced degrees. I have lectured at five colleges and have financially supported three or four colleges over the past few years. I have long-time friends who are professors and college presidents.

However, serious mistakes are being made by parents in my opinion. Not every student needs to go to college. Not every student needs a liberal arts degree. Too often parents push their children into college only to frustrate them and hinder them from what they really want to do with their lives. Of course, every Christian should be willing to serve Christ in a full-time capacity and get the training that is needed; but everyone does not have that calling. We have a grandson who is doing very well in construction work (and actively serving in a great church) and attended college for a couple of years. We are very proud of him. (I’d better say that since he will be wealthy by the time I have to pay for a nursing home.)

Every city needs more and better plumbers, mechanics, electricians, carpenters, builders, etc., and some of those occupations are producing more income than dentistry, engineering, and other white collar positions. That may be part of the problem: many parents want their children to “move up” in status to white collar positions–fact is, they see a college degree as a white collar union card. In casual conversations with their friends, they want to say, “My son, the doctor,” or “My daughter, the lawyer.” Such bragging rights are not worth paying up to $50,000 per year tuition!

It has been commonly thought that the most expensive thing other than going to college is not going to college. The college graduate usually made at least one million dollars more during a lifetime than non-college graduates. That is not true now because of the outrageous cost of college plus the advancement in income for businessmen, electricians, carpenters, plumbers, etc.

Moreover, children don’t need to go to expensive, prestigious schools. Parents have been “sold a bill of goods” about higher education. They should not be impressed with a school’s standing or even accreditation! Of course, some professions require an accredited degree. Accreditation is one of the most over-sold, unnecessary things since Hadacol, a patent medicine in the 1950s. It produced a big kick–main ingredient was alcohol–that promised to cure almost anything, even grow hair on a billiard ball and green leaves on a ball bat.

Accreditation, like Hadacol, might not hurt a student but it won’t do him much good either.
It makes no more sense to pay $200,000 for a four-year degree than it does to pay the same for a tulip!

Copyright 2013, Don Boys, Ph.D.