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A Stance Against Material Excess?

> "School administrators, reacting to what they called a "sick" prom culture that was out of control, announced in a letter this month to parents that senior prom was canceled. > "Basically, it has become an event in American culture that has all the trappings of

Kids Overestimate Drinking

Consider this a public service announcement for my readers with kids in the 17-23 age bracket: > More than 70 percent of U.S. college students overestimate the amount of alcohol that their peers drink. > And this kind of misperception has a strong effect on personal alcohol consumption and

In Canada?

This is odd. I would've assumed this could lead to a complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission [https://thedailyeudemon.com/914/]. Link [http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/09/23/D8CPU38G8.html]. Excerpt: > A 14-year-old student was expelled from a Christian school because her parents are

More Public School Fun II

This type of problem, however, isn't endemic to the "coercion x local moneys + federal requirement" formula described in my last post. This is just an original sin thing: > When we heard about the latest scandal embroiling a U.S. middle school, well, we assumed it

More Public School Fun

Many good Christians support the whole concept of public schools. It boggles my mind and strikes me as a lazy holdover from the schools' halcyon days in the 1950s and 1960s. The types of abuse described in the story below naturally crop up in a machine that is built

Part of Kennedy's Ongoing War Against the Church

> Culture & Cosmos also reports that a prominent Church prelate said he was furious that aid to private schools had been kept out of the package and he was especially angry that it is being blocked by "four Irish Catholic Senators." > The proposal for financial aid

FOCUS

I had heard of Campus Crusade for Life, a Protestant outreach to colleges and universities, but never of a Catholic equivalent. It turns out there is one: FOCUS (Fellowship of Catholic University Students). It's eight years old and is active on 25 secular and Catholic campuses, including the

Another Pro-Condom Teacher

School's back in session, so we should start seeing more of these: > A Hammonton High School physical education/health teacher was arrested last Wednesday evening and charged with official misconduct and sexual crimes involving three male students, Atlantic County Prosecutor Jeffrey S. Blitz said. > Traci J.

Porn U

Crux Magazine has an interesting piece this week about pornography on campus. Not in the frat houses, mind you, but in the curriculum. A few samples: > Controversy over porn in the classroom erupted last month at Arizona State University. "Sexuality in the Media," a class taught by

The Flannery O'Connor Dormitory?

> After more than five years of dreaming, planning, recruiting administrators and students, and changing locations, Southern Catholic College is ready to start classes on Thursday. > "We are very excited to welcome our first class," said Jeremiah Ashcroft, president of Southern Catholic. "We also are very