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For decades, young people have been experimenting with new and freer sexual mores. On college campuses, some might say that sexual freedom is on steroids. The ideas are not new, but on today's campus the drive toward casual sex is dramatically accelerated. Marriage is a "social construct.
Abortion
BOSTON – Single motherhood isn't often on the high school or college to-do list for women. But around 6 percent of those aged 15 to 19 become pregnant each year. In 2010, pregnancy ended in abortion for 157,450 women, or 26 percent of those in that age group
equality
Feb. 1, 2016 The NewBostonPost this month will tackle the topic of "Sex and gender on campus." This theme is broad and poses a vast array of questions on sexual mores, campus sexual assault, equality of the sexes, feminism, and academic disparities – to name just a few.
rape
Last year, the Chronicle of Higher Education published yet another story under the headline, "Should colleges be judging rape?" This article, like many others, delved into the complexities of real and fabricated accusations, the need to balance protection of victims with due process for the accused, administrator'
Massachusetts
Dorm rooms, shower baskets, Frisbees flying through a sun-streaked courtyards — these are traditional iconic images of a college school year's kickoff. Today's college students, however, might also add "sensitivity seminars" and warnings about the prevalence of sexual assault as one of the rites of
rape
A bill introduced last week in Congress has the right idea for addressing college sexual assaults. It would require universities to call the police when an allegation of sexual assault is received. Rape is a very serious crime, and once university officials learn of a complaint, they should not have
Catholic
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A small Catholic university in southern New Hampshire is becoming the latest college to offer a money-back guarantee of sorts to its students. Rivier University, which has a total student population of about 2,600 in Nashua, has created an "Employment Promise Program" that
Catholic
(RNS) — The uproar over Wheaton College's recent decision to begin termination proceedings for a tenured professor was oh-so-predictable. When Larycia Hawkins sought to show solidarity with her Muslim neighbors by donning a hijab and declaring that Muslims and Christians "worship the same God," the college sought
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