… with this article from yesterday’s New York Times:

I can’t imagine how campus must have changed since I was a student.  I lived on campus for four years, and I swear I never witnessed anything like the things this article describes.  I remember “Mother’s Rugby” being an affable group of sports nuts, and nothing more.  I knew one member because we were in a class together — he was a very nice guy.  During one walk around Fredericksburg, he actually defended a couple of female companions from a few locals who were about to harass them.

I don’t even remember too much controversy on campus connected with any social or political issues.  I wasn’t aware of any organized vocal feminist community, or anyone visibly opposing feminists either.

In 1991, I think, there was some controversy connected with a … Multi-cultural Center?  I think it was an office dedicated to advocating for students who were members of racial minorities?  And when the gay students demonstrated for social acceptance, there were a few psychos wearing homemade anti-gay t-shirts (suggesting, of course, a Freudian defense mechanism for their own unconscious impulses).

But there was nothing like the events we’re currently reading and hearing about.

I might just stop reading the news, so that I can preserve my image of the college that I still love.