Today's Topic:
Student Union. Discuss,
Says The Chronicle "People are tired of the shame and silence about sex," say sex trainers Dorian Solot and Marshall Miller in the October 26, 2007 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Hollywood, Academia, Liberals tell us non-stop that our culture does not talk enough about sex. We are constantly told that We need to have a national conversation about sex.

This is, of course, nonsense. Our culture is a non-stop broadcast of sex-talk.

(Where were these liberals when Bill Clinton brought X-Rated testimony about various sex acts into our living rooms?)

The Chronicle of Higher Education gives the sex educators the platform to showcase "A line of little buttons that college students seem to be into, each one with a single sex word on it -- words like kiss, hug, squeeze, stroke, thrust..."

Goodness. The buttons are, it seem, to help us all to talk more about sex.

As if there is not enough talk already.

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Thank you (foot)notes:

Lynn Lavner says, "The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision."

And let's not forget homosexual/transsexual sex brought to our institutions of higher learning by sex-experts Solot and MIller,

Whatever your level of comfort and knowledge with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues, this professional training will give you a chance to learn about GLBT lives and experiences, get answers to your questions, and take away practical tips for working and interacting with GLBT people on campus, in your workplace, or as clients.

I love female org@sm logo also available on Babydoll (girly) t-shirts -- $12

"Had any lately?" buttons were not seen on the web site.

Your Business Blogger would advise his students not wear any such 'conversation starters' on a job interview.

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Higher Education can get edgy.

Alert Reader David with a dot edu asked about The Chronicle of Higher Education,

"Most every issue has nude photos of women (art, of course) that is Not Safe for Work."

I have never noticed a nude photo of women in the chronicle. But I will watch this space closely for your alerts of such issues, so I can be properly offended of course.

David is merely using the "I didn't notice" defense. (Number 3 in The Complete Married Man's Guide To Spousal Responses.) Proving that there is a gentleman in academia.

He might be about the only one left.

The offensive photos are usually on the End Page. Here's a sampler,

And Your Business Blogger's favorite, (I guess):

Professor Diana York Blaine

OK, so Professor Diana York Blaine was not actually pictured in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Not yet.

There is an uncensored photo of Professor Diana York Blaine, a Professor of Womyn's Studies, floating about. But, like, who'd care?

One conservative female pundit once quipped that the entire feminist movement could have been averted if a few guys took a local budding feminist to the prom in high school. To keep these womyn from being so angry.

If a young man simply took Diana York Blaine on a date...

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Nevermind.

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Thank you (foot)notes:

See more education at The Chronicle category and here.

Outside The Beltway has the nude Blaine story.

Professor Diana York Blaine is a lunar worshipper,

Every morning, then, I hit my knees and I pray to the moon goddess. Should I be ashamed of my god? She doesn't seem any more ridiculous to me than anybody else's deity, and as I have said, at least I can see manifest proof of a power greater than myself in the presence of that orb. Plus I’m named for her, so there’s a cool connection. And what do I ask her? To help us all find peace. To help me be an instrument of peace in the world. To help me find that peace in myself before I even try to move out into the community and encourage others to change as well. To walk through the day in serenity with a light heart because I deserve to be here and she loves me.

The moon loves her. In another less tolerant, less enlighten day we had a name for such lost souls:

Lunatic.

Just another professor in academia.

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"Francis, Jamaica Plain, Mass.," 1971 Your Business Blogger eagerly awaits each issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education. And not just for the articles...

Most every issue has nude photos of women (art, of course) that is Not Safe for Work.

Not family friendly. View and get fired.

Unless you are self-employed -- or in the academy where no professor is ever terminated for sex offenses including seducing co-eds (whether by grades or degrees). (Although Professor Leacher does sometimes get caught.)

Alert Readers will remember the, well, uninhibited, photo shoots of Professor Diana York Blaine. NSFW.

Not family friendly.

But times might be changing even if The Chronicle doesn't. Charmaine et. al. recently spoke at Princeton University where the faculty were most proud of recent human resource changes to encourage parents with children.

To be more family friendly. Princeton should be proud.

Princeton is on the right (tenure) track.

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Thank you (foot)notes:

Be sure to see academic marketing from Princeton University Press.

Full Disclosure: Charmaine's dissertation was on family leave policies and tenure in academia. More at the jump.

Photos by Henry Horenstein in the article Family on Film, April 6, 2007, B19. The photos are of "...[M]y people...I grew up with as a kid... and met along the way...while making that awkward transition from adolescence to adulthood." The relationship with the nude woman is not described. And I really don't want to know the details.

Although it is surely a topic of academic discussion.

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The Myth of Authenticity

"...There has never been a consensus in defining authenticity in art..." Heavy. Groovy.

From the October 13, 2006 issue. The Playboy for professors is at it again. The Chronicle is never lacking for justification for drawing interest to their "End Paper." Much as Newsweek has George Will on the back page -- The Chronicle has nudie art.

Search Chronicle for past reviews of "art." Like Painted Ladies Gone Wild

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