‘Institutional Confusion’?
, Feb. 11 — A year after being labeled by the Princeton Review as the school “most unfriendly to homosexuals,” a homosexual film festival was held at the University of Notre Dame in early February.
Homosexual groups are not recognized on campus, so to present the festival homosexual students teamed up with the film, television and theater department.
“The fact that Notre Dame would allow it to take place on campus points to an institutional confusion,” law student Sean Vinck said. “The university claims to adhere to the teachings of the Church about a homosexual lifestyle, but at the same time it bends to modern culture's acceptance of it.”
No New Heights
CHRONICLE.COM, Feb. 11 — After three months of negotiations, Boston College newspaper editors have reached a compromise with the administration regarding editorial control of the paper.
School officials requested last November that The Heights ban all alcohol and tobacco advertising and be subject to a faculty advisor y board that would oversee all editorial content.
In exchange for paying more rent, the editors agreed to monitor the paper's adver tising more closely but avoided being subject to any faculty board regarding editorial content.
Feminist — and Pro-Life
, Feb. 11 — Feminists for Life vice president Sally Winn spoke to Dartmouth College students Feb. 10 about being feminist and pro-life.
In her talk, she praised Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton as original leaders of the women's and pro-life movements.
“The suffragists worked to change society to accept women. Second-wave feminists sold out,” Winn said. “They worked to change women so that they would be accepted by society.”
Winn also discussed ways to tackle the “root causes of abortion,” the paper reported, calling for better campus-housing options, affordable day-care programs and maternity insurance coverage on college plans for pregnant women.
Pondering the Passion
SETON HALL UNIVERSITY, Feb. 12 — “The Passion of Jesus: From Gospel to Gibson” is the title of a March 14 symposium to be held at the South Orange, N.J., university.
Rabbi Asher Finkl, a professor of Jewish-Christian studies at Seton Hall, and Father Lawrence Frizzell, director of the Institute of Judeo-Christian Studies at the school, are scheduled to present the lecture.
The symposium “will explore the New Testament message and Catholic devotion to the passion of Jesus,” a school press release said, “with attention to anti-Jewish motifs, which may mar the Christian's understanding of the myster y of redemption.”
Day of Purity
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 13 — Thousands of high-school students around the country wore white T-shirts to school the day before Valentine's Day to publicly show their commitment to not have sex outside of marriage.
As part of the initiative, called the Day of Purity, students were scheduled to hand out pro-abstinence pamphlets to their peers.
The effort is supported by Christian groups nationwide and organized by Liberty Counsel, a religious-rights group based in Orlando, Fla.
The Associated Press noted the day came as President Bush was preparing a budget proposal to double federal funding for sexual-abstinence programs.