I don't think you have been paying attention to the morals of this generation. I think this generation is going to surprise you, Don. Based on personal observation, I suspect it will be far more conservative than the last.
"I think this generation is going to surprise you, Don. Based on personal observation, I suspect it will be far more conservative than the last."
It would be a surprise. I mean that honestly. I work at a home for troubled boys. I have seen the young girls chasing them. I have had to break up these young couples, ages 15 or 16, up in our parking lot when they couldn't find a convenient lover's lane. Designer drugs are popular now amongst the young. I could go on, but the point is immorality is now no longer anything but having fun. And this now starts at a very early age, and continues up into the college years, and beyond.
I think this generation is going to surprise you, Don. Based on personal observation, I suspect it will be far more conservative than the last. maybe so, it will be an interesting thing to see if the 20-30 yr olds of today will continue with the 'me first' hedonistic lifestyle and world view spawned by the 60s crowd, or if they will put 2 and 2 together and identify that lifestyle for what it is.
i have been to a few large campuses in my day and the "fairs" here at penn state are by far the most outrageous thing i have encountered (not to say what goes on behind closed doors does not go on everywhere -- i dont know - dont care), but the same place that has a hissy fit when hooters comes to town is also the place that sponsors C@#$ fest -- i just dont get it. the admin here must be the worst i have ever run across -- first they just dont tell the kids to f -off "you cant use taxpayers $$ for this type of activity" (instead they encourage it letting them think that this sort of thing is what the govt does when it has spare $$). then the recent trouble with the blacks on campus - instead of telling them that a degree in african-american appreciation is worthless and that no campus needs 12 full time profs in such a dept they meekly caved and gave them all the $$ that they wanted. now, i know that admin couldnt say exactly that, but there is a lesson in exposing b.s. spewing forth from a group with a extreme agenda and not letting them have TAXPAYER $$. this place, in my estimation, which may indeed be biased b/c i dont see everything that goes on here, is run by pathetic, weak people who teach a dangerous lesson in what they allow to go on in the name of higher eduation.
i guess the thing that makes the greatest impression on me is how normal things are around here 99% of the time. the kids look normal, act normal (mostly -- when they are not throwing burning furniture out of the dorm rooms on to cops...) so what gives with the voice and power of this 0.5% as you call it (btw it seems that they are mostly womens groups that sponsor such things)?? have they been wronged by the school in the past or are they the garden variety infantile 'we invented sex and then made it better' folks who think they actually have something valid or unique to contribute to their surroundings?