Clemson University No Longer Requiring Students to Submit Drinking and Sex Information
Yesterday Campus Reform reported that Clemson University was requiring students to submit information about their drinking behavior and sex lives using identifiable log-in data.
Late last night the university backtracked on its plan, Campus Reform now reports:
Clemson University is no longer prying into its students’ sex lives
In a campus-wide email late Wednesday night, Clemson University announced the suspension of its mandatory Title IX training program.
As originally reported by Campus Reform, Clemson required its students to disclose personal information about drinking habits and their sex lives as part of an online Title IX training course, which required students’ IDs, names, addresses, and housing details in order to login. All students, faculty, and staff were required to complete the course by Nov. 1 or face disciplinary action.
“Required Title IX online training has been suspended pending elimination of certain questions that were associated with a training module provided by a third-party vendor,” the email, sent at 11:42 p.m., said. “Clemson University will eliminate these questions. We apologize for any concern and inconvenience this has caused.”
The training course was purchased by Clemson through CampusClarity, “[a] Title IX and Campus SaVE Act education program that combines sexual assault and substance abuse prevention in a comprehensive online training program.”
The suspension of the training course came as a relief to some students who were apprehensive about disclosing such personal information to the university and a third-party.
Clemson University is no longer prying into its students’ sex lives (Campus Reform)
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Wow, I tried to get my sons to go to the University of South Carolina, but their father’s orange influence prevailed. LOL.
Seriously, who in the world thought this was a good idea and what paper voyeur actually thought such intrusive questions about consensual sex would help combat non-consensual sex?
The antidote to rape and over drinking is not in statistical analysis of who has done what how many times, but in providing morals and principles under which people guide their lives and decisions.
It pains me as a woman to say this, but the whole women’s movement holds a heap of blame too. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not blaming the victim. I’m blaming the women who took the concept of equal pay for equal work and providing women with options to enter careers that were predominately male, then turned it into a sham where women adopted the worst of the very male behaviors the feminists decried as unfair. Instead of raising the standards of male and female relationships with mutual respect for characteristics outside of gender and in honor of gender differences, women, in pursuit of being “like men”, became what they claimed to hate.
The lack of respect for self and others–not tolerance, since no one merely wants to be tolerated and it’s always a one-way street of selfish demands–the absence of understanding about right v. wrong and how one person’s rights end where another person’s rights begin, beget a culture, especially among the youth, that not only didn’t stop viewing women as “sex objects” and “second-class citizens”, but simply made them acceptable for women to participant in by calling it women’s liberation. Who, in their right mind, would think that women acting worse than men ever did would not result in a lack of respect for women and that some men wouldn’t take them at their word and project onto women their own base desires, even when such desires didn’t exist? The physical differences between males and females in muscle mass and bone density didn’t magically disappear. The misguided, over-the-top feminists put targets on the backs of all women by their militant excesses that never factored in reality, biology, human nature, or principled guidelines that focused on accomplishment. Their approach has been developmentally arrested at gender and free-for-all sex. They turned future generations of young women into male play-pretties and called it exploring their sexuality, but hey, they could now demand jobs merely because of their gender, not because of equal qualifications and production.
Furthermore, men, in general, and healthy male behaviors have been vilified. They’re portrayed as Neanderthal throwbacks or as dimwitted, effeminate “pajamas boys”. Many young males have had no strong principled role models in larger society to emulate, especially since far too many of these young men have grown up without fathers to teach them the importance of being a mature man of discernment, respect and to embrace the serious responsibilities of being physically stronger and the principles to guide their natural strenghts.
Manhood, like womanhood, has become about the external trappings of acquiring power, in one form or another, even if it’s nothing more than guys counting the number of bitches and hos they string or for young women, how many guys she can claim as seeing her as one, or by thinking that it makes her special that her baby daddy is the high school BMOC. It’s not power at all that they achieve. This false power is nothing more than the acting out of people who have been rendered powerless over their own lives. Because, on some deep level, they know they have accepted false premises, they are angry. Our society has robbed men of their natural roles and devalued male accomplishment. It has robbed women of respect for themselves and from men, and has far too often created unequal opportunity in the name of equality, not the kind of true achievement that fosters self-respect. We’ve gone about breaking the glass ceiling for women completely in the wrong way.
I don’t know if campus rapes have increased or not, since rape is an age-old problem that has always been born out of a lack of morals and principles, whether it’s on a campus, in the neighborhood or in a war zone. I do know that the only way to combat it is teach and expect higher principles of respect and the moral boundaries that give all people the personal restraint to refuse to engage in the most base aspects of human nature.
Sorry for the rant, but there’s nothing hokey or outdated about morals and principles or about expecting personal responsibility, which is definitely not reliance on government to keep up a man’s offspring or to reward women for repeated irresponsible behavior. Whether the social engineers understand this or not, which I suspect they do, it has always been, and will always remain, that no matter how ‘educated’ we are, no matter how technologically advanced we may become, human nature does not change. We will never evolve out of it. We can change as individuals to embrace higher thinking and behaviors and society can reinforce such morals and principles, but we cannot ever change basic human nature. We are what we are. If we were able to transcend human nature merely by government or institutional study or decree, there would be no rape or theft or murder or deceit. All we have to do today is read the headlines to see the abject failure of relativism and bad government policy. Human nature still exists, only now with less restraint and more apologists to nurture the worst aspects of it. Until we change the degradation of humans we see in today’s culture and actually “progress” toward higher principles as individuals, reinforced by a wiser society, it will only continue to degrade. Progress is when man and woman recognize their own need for living a life of responsibility and accomplishment, whether it’s in a personal struggle or in achieving external goals through principled choices, nothing will get better. Questionnaires sure won’t do it.
Really, I’m sorry. The mama in me just came flying out when I read this article and it’s personal, since my family turns orange every fall. I expect…no, I demand…better from Clemson University…and the University of South Carolina, if they’re doing this kind of ridiculous exercise. Heck, I expect better from people who ought to know better, no matter where they are.