College criticized for recruiting postcard saying students can 'play the field

MSNBC News ^ | Dec. 14, 2004 | ASSOCIATED PRESS

[hunter112]

We? Do you have a mouse in your pocket? I don't have any objection to women pursuing their MRS degree.

Excuse me, I didn't realize there were still conservatives in the 21st Century that feel it's OK to pick taxpayer pockets to set up social institutions for the dateless. OK by me if you feel that way. Just don't expect the fiscal conservatives around here to necessarily join you.

Sexuality? C'mon, the card shows a guy talking to girls, fergoodnessakes! If you think that's scandalous and sexual, you're certainly entitled to your opinion.

The implication from the photo and the wording on the card is that "our school is a great place to pick up a lotta chicks." As a male, I feel insulted that my gender is being marketed to this way, and I can understand that they ladies don't appreciate being used in that fashion, either.

It's not a great crime, but they should expect to receive some criticism over it. Hopefully, the market will decide, and it will just look like another tawdry advertisement to prospective students. It might even cause some women to find another place to enroll, lest they constantly hit on by men looking for "what the advertising promised".

It's like what I told my ex-wife after getting in a parking lot argument with someone over something trivial, "Don't let your mouth write a check that my body has to cash." This college should not be promising its coeds as a harem to lonely guys who should be shopping for a quality education.

[Luddite Patent Counsel]

In any college setting where you have males and females, social interaction, yes, even dating and romance, will be a major part of the experience for the students. I didn't think that there was anyone, even a "social conservative" who objected to co-educational colleges. Somebody better tell the folks at Bob Jones and Liberty that they're fostering dens of iniquity, with "tawdriness" of cross-gender interaction! It could lead to them having coffee one-on-one, or even (gasp!) HOLDING HANDS! Yes, my friends, interdigitation RIGHT HERE ON CAMPUS!!! Marketing the possibility of young men talking to young women? Oh, the humanity!