Don't Know Much about History, But A Lot about Sex by Candice Watters on 09/27/2006 at 4:00 PM

So college students don't know much about history. The Intercollegiate Studies Institute was right to point out that "students don't learn what colleges don't teach." So what, if not history, are colleges teaching? Well at Yale, one of the schools to perform at the bottom on the ISI survey, they're teaching sex. Lots of sex.

According to the September 26 edition of the Yale Daily News:

Yale may be consistently ranking third in the U.S. News & World Report's list of "America's Best Colleges," but when it comes to sexual health, Yale is on top.

Earlier this month, the University earned the top ranking in a recent survey by Trojan Brand Condoms about sexual health on America's campuses.

Trojan's Sexual Health Report Card noted the resources the University offers to students facing a sexual-health crisis, the birth-control measures it makes available to students, the helpfulness of Yale's Web site and special events like Sex Week at Yale in granting the top honor, said Bert Sperling, the president of Sperling's Best Places, the research firm that compiled the report.

Yale is lauded for encouraging "love, sex, intimacy, relationships, health." When I hear those words, I think marriage. Yale thinks condoms. And experimentation. And titillation. Pornography, in short.

According to ISI what colleges should be doing is prioritizing their "mission and fundamental responsibility to prepare its students to be informed, engaged participants in a democratic republic." According to the Trojan condom company what colleges should be praised for doing well is helping students in the area of "sexual health."

Forget American history, government, foreign affairs and the economy -- the four subjects ISI's 60-question survey covered. If you're set on a top-shelf, $200,000 university degree, you may be in for quite a shock.

Not only are we facing a crisis of citizenship, but of the very morality necessary for our system to function.

"The university lies in ruins," writes Al Mohler in his blog on this story. "The character of the university has been corrupted and, in turn, the university now threatens to corrupt, rather than to educate the young."

Don't Know Much about History, But A Lot about Sex by Candice Watters on 09/27/2006 at 4:00 PM

So college students don't know much about history. The Intercollegiate Studies Institute was right to point out that "students don't learn what colleges don't teach." So what, if not history, are colleges teaching? Well at Yale, one of the schools to perform at the bottom on the ISI survey, they're teaching sex. Lots of sex.

According to the September 26 edition of the Yale Daily News:

Yale may be consistently ranking third in the U.S. News & World Report's list of "America's Best Colleges," but when it comes to sexual health, Yale is on top.

Earlier this month, the University earned the top ranking in a recent survey by Trojan Brand Condoms about sexual health on America's campuses.

Trojan's Sexual Health Report Card noted the resources the University offers to students facing a sexual-health crisis, the birth-control measures it makes available to students, the helpfulness of Yale's Web site and special events like Sex Week at Yale in granting the top honor, said Bert Sperling, the president of Sperling's Best Places, the research firm that compiled the report.

Yale is lauded for encouraging "love, sex, intimacy, relationships, health." When I hear those words, I think marriage. Yale thinks condoms. And experimentation. And titillation. Pornography, in short.

According to ISI what colleges should be doing is prioritizing their "mission and fundamental responsibility to prepare its students to be informed, engaged participants in a democratic republic." According to the Trojan condom company what colleges should be praised for doing well is helping students in the area of "sexual health."

Forget American history, government, foreign affairs and the economy -- the four subjects ISI's 60-question survey covered. If you're set on a top-shelf, $200,000 university degree, you may be in for quite a shock.

Not only are we facing a crisis of citizenship, but of the very morality necessary for our system to function.

"The university lies in ruins," writes Al Mohler in his blog on this story. "The character of the university has been corrupted and, in turn, the university now threatens to corrupt, rather than to educate the young."