Wacky Frat Boys Strike Again

[eastbayguy]

Those crazy frat boys from four local fraternities got their name in the paper again this week:

 

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0823asufollow23.html

 

Does anyone else besides myself recall a time when college was meant to be a time in your life when you weren't supposed to conform? A time to make mistakes, expand your horizons and try things you'd never get away with later in life? The quote from the new president of ASU just seems wrong headed to me.

 

Meanwhile, I'd like to see this tape. No doubt the fuss will boost sales, especially in Arizona.

 

--EBG

[Guest in yer face]

The school had better be very careful, or theyll wind up with a lawsuit on their hands. He did nothing wrong. If they expel him they could wind up being sued for the cost of his education, plus damages. I cant beleive they consulted the DA! Over what? No one is underage, and no laws were broken.

[Guest Kalifornia]

>Those crazy frat boys from four local fraternities got their

>name in the paper again this week:

>

>http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0823asufollow23.html

>

>Does anyone else besides myself recall a time when college

>was meant to be a time in your life when you weren't

>supposed to conform? A time to make mistakes, expand your

>horizons and try things you'd never get away with later in

>life? The quote from the new president of ASU just seems

>wrong headed to me.

>

>Meanwhile, I'd like to see this tape. No doubt the fuss

>will boost sales, especially in Arizona.

>

>--EBG

 

Anyone have a link where this video can be purchased? Straight or not that guy is HOT!

 

Mark -Kalifornia

[Will]

Institutions of higher education, and state-financed ones in particular, operate in a climate of unremitting pressure from at least two powerful and vocal constituencies. What's more, those constituences are almost always at cross purposes. Presidents, Provosts, and Deans stand on the front line between the two groups, trying to negotiate a ceasefire while dodging every known type of ordinance.

 

On the one side is the academic community itself, composed largely but not exclusively of students, faculty, and support staff fully engaged in the school's educational enterprise. On the other side is a huge volunteer army of people, all of whom are richer, more powerful, and more convinced of their own expertise than the combined strength of the academic community. In this group are the trustees, alumni, major donors, and -- most of all for a public institution -- the politicians.

 

A matter of genuine urgency is the ongoing skirmish at the University of North Carolina over the academic community's decision to ask students to read a book about Islam. If this had happened at a private university of Chapel Hill's ilk -- say, Johns Hopkins or nearby Duke -- we'd never have heard of it. But because taxpayers in North Carolina have a direct influence on how their elected officials respond to matters in the state university, all hell has broken loose from the Christian Right. I can't think of a more critical incident regarding freedom of inquiry, free speech, and the necessity for open debate -- all of them foundation stones of everything meant by "higher education" -- since the McCarthy Era.

 

Just so, the business about porn at ASU suggests to me that the fuss may be coming from a whole lot of retirees and other taxpayers. Doubtless, Arizona also has its share of folks on the Christian Right; and let's not forget that politically Arizona has always been conservative. I think that's what this is about, and nothing more. Students collaborating with porn producers (not faculty salaries, financial aid, research facilities, library budgets, and so forth) provides just the kind of flare that politicians learn to follow. I'll bet -- although I don't know this -- that there is some kind of budget crisis in Arizona that's about to affect the university's allocations.

 

As for college students appearing in porn videos, surely they don't think this is the first time! Nor, if Bacchus, Venus, Pan, and all the other jolly gods haven't given up on us and our self-righteousness, will it be the last.