The problem is it could be so many places in higher education.

TaxProf has an excerpt from a review of Sex and God at Yale: Porn, Political Correctness, and a Good Education Gone Bad (St. Martin’s Press, Aug. 21, 2012), by Nathan Harden (B.A. 2009, Yale):

Harden’s provocative narrative  highlights the implications of the controversial Sex Week on campus and  the social elitism of the Yale “naked party” phenomenon. Going beyond  mere sexual expose, Sex and God at Yalepulls the sheets off of institutional licentiousness and examines how his alma mater got to a point where:

  • During “Sex Week” at Yale, porn producers were allowed onto campus  property to give demonstrations on sexual technique—and give out samples of their products.
  • An art student received departmental  approval—before the ensuing media attention alerted the public and Yale  alumni—for an art project in which she claimed to have used the blood  and tissue from repeated self-induced miscarriages.
  • The university became the subject of a federal investigation for allegedly creating a hostile environment for women.

Much more than this, Harden examines the inherent contradictions in the  partisan politicizing of higher education. What does it say when Yale  seeks to distance itself from its Divinity School roots while at the  same time it hires a Muslim imam with no academic credentials to  instruct students? When the same school that would not allow ROTC on its campus for decades invites a former Taliban spokesperson to study at  the university?

Don’t think it’s just Yale — Harvard Sex Week.


 
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