Hypocritical Horror

The fact that anyone is surprised about what has happened at Penn State simply amazes me.  Somehow the spirit of “Animal House” and the anonymity of Las Vegas have been ingrained into the concept of higher education in America.   

 

Mixing a few natural predators, with too much alcohol, and an attitude of “What happens in College stays in College” is a recipe for sexual assault.

Why do you think Colleges and Universities have their own “Police Forces”? 

It all comes down to money enrollment.

The institution of higher learning needs to keep students' parent's paying students, and the City’s that host them want the students to spend their money off campus.  The effect is that campus crimes are virtually never reported, because it’s bad for business.

I was a Resident Assistant at college one year.  One of the rooms on my floor attracted pot smokers every weekend.  The boys are couple of rooms down were good old fashioned bible thumpers and couldn’t stand it when the hallway “smells like that Mary-jew-wana”.  I tried talked with the smokers; told them to point a fan out the window so the smell wouldn't ooze into the hall. 

The final straw.  One day the smokers put the fan in backwards.  Blew all the smoke into the hallway.  So what did the Thumpers do?  They called the city cops.  When the real police showed up at the front desk you would have thought IT WAS THE END OF THE WORLD.

The only Horror here is everyone’s hypocritical “How could this have happened?”