[I_Love_My_Husband]

"UCLGBTIA, a subcommittee of the alliance and the Queer Resource Center, also received university money for the controversial Queer Conference, held on campus February 2002. The conference featured such workshop topics as: A New Generation of BDSM; Safer Sex: What to Know Before You Blow; Buzz Off: Sex Toys for All Genders; and Dykes Doin’ Photo.

Other workshops also provided guidance towards the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases, as well as analyses of the sociological condition of gays and the history of homosexuality.

Over $4,000 from the ASUC contingency fund, $2,500 from Vice Chancellor Genaro Padilla’s fund and $700 from the Office of UC President Richard Atkinson, along with $10,000 the center received for its annual budget from the ASUC went towards the conference’s funding, Mendoza said.

The university also provided office space in Cesar Chavez Student Center, office equipment and printing supplies, along with an advisor from the Office of Student Life whose primary project for the year was to assist with the convention, he added.

The Queer Resource Center, located in the Eshleman Hall front office for the UC Berkeley Queer Alliance, receives free office space and over $9,000 a year for activities from the student government. Numerous other queer-themed groups beneath the overarching Queer Council also receive monies totaling in the thousands.

By contrast, both the Cal Berkeley Democrats and Berkeley College Republicans received $4,500 from the ASUC for the 2001-2002 academic year, and the Campus Crusade for Christ received $200. "

[Terriergal]

Should we be surprised? Sex is the Soma of today's society.

[First Amendment]

Another compelling reason why "higher education" is really a slaughter house. A lot of young kids (17 or 18 is REALLY young) from decent families go to universities and after a year or two have become so harmed emotionally, spiritually, and intellectually that they aren't fixable. And their parents wonder what happened.
Better to be self-educated these days.
Really reminds me of what I've read of the fall of Rome.

Does anyone know a good book about the fall of Rome, BTW?