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Detoxing the College Dorm (And please leave the lawyers at home)
National Review ^ | 07/18/2011 | Kathryn Jean Lopez

Posted on 07/18/2011 8:36:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: Buddygirl; SeekAndFind

I’ll say this much about GCC. My former Brother-in-Law is one of the Professors there and it is one of the few Colleges which expect the faculty and staff to live up to the same expectations that they have for the students. I don’t know much about the college beyond my initial contact with it back in 2005, but this truly amazed and encouraged me.


21 posted on 07/18/2011 10:00:30 AM PDT by paladin1_dcs (Voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil.)
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To: Gena Bukin; little jeremiah; DJ MacWoW; trisham; TheOldLady; surroundedbyblue; Tax-chick; ...
People used to get married shortly after reaching puberty. They weren't "saving themselves" for very long.

Not disagreeing. Just saying...

That's somewhat true, but it's also a fallacy put out by groups that support pedophilia.

First of all, the average age of menarche for girls over 17 as recently as the mid-19th century. There are all sorts of theories as to the decline in age, but the reality is that "reaching puberty" means something very different today than what it meant a couple hundred years ago. I think most would agree that an 18 year old girl living on a farm two hundred years ago is FAR MORE MATURE than a 13 year old girl living in suburbia today.

Now, it is true that nobility and very wealthy families used to marry off their daughters (not sons) at a very young age; however, this was done for political and financial reasons only. Additionally, these marriages were almost never consummated until the girl was much older and in many cases she didn't even live with her husband until then.

22 posted on 07/18/2011 10:03:03 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: Cyber Liberty

No, Mr. Regnerus was attributing the belief in the quote to people such as Professor Whosis that’s planning to sue CUA to force co-ed dorms. I think Regnerus wrong in calling people like that “well-meaning,” or imagining that they would like to curtail binge drinking or drunken, casual sex acts.

As with abortion, there’s no reason to oppose simple, low-cost ways to reduce opportunity and incidence unless you actually favor the activity.


23 posted on 07/18/2011 10:12:24 AM PDT by Tax-chick (When politicians are "civil," the Republic is threatened.)
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To: SeekAndFind

bump for later reading


24 posted on 07/18/2011 10:46:58 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (To ACLU & its plaintiffs: Stop dragging the public into your personal struggle w/ God. -Mark Baisley)
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To: Cyber Liberty; wagglebee

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2750338/posts

Further information shows the prospective litigant is a nutball, attention-mongering leftist freak.


25 posted on 07/18/2011 12:44:48 PM PDT by Tax-chick (When politicians are "civil," the Republic is threatened.)
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To: Tax-chick
Further information shows the prospective litigant is a nutball, attention-mongering leftist freak.

But you repeat myself. :^)

26 posted on 07/18/2011 1:11:05 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Oh, well, any excuse to buy a new gun is good enough for me.)
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To: Cyber Liberty

I’m trying to avoid unsuitable expletives, but I run out of original quality adjectives!


27 posted on 07/18/2011 2:01:05 PM PDT by Tax-chick (When politicians are "civil," the Republic is threatened.)
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To: Tax-chick

I just visited your profile page. Whoa! My wife is from a family of 11, me 4, and 0 between us...but three Kittehs!


28 posted on 07/18/2011 2:12:40 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Oh, well, any excuse to buy a new gun is good enough for me.)
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To: Cyber Liberty

We have only the two catz.

I see one of my Cheney pictures has fallen out of teh interwebs. Time to update my page again.


29 posted on 07/18/2011 2:20:08 PM PDT by Tax-chick (When politicians are "civil," the Republic is threatened.)
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To: Buddygirl

Yup, way too late. We need to think instead about radical
privatization of all education.


30 posted on 07/18/2011 3:17:56 PM PDT by cycjec
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To: Gena Bukin
I can't wholeheartedly recommend the Volkmann's book From Binge To Blackout but they do graphically describe how binge drinking has gotten much much worse over the years. The entire college "party" idea has to be re-evaluated.
31 posted on 07/18/2011 3:21:15 PM PDT by cycjec
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