Co-ed dorms are idiotic and encourage behavior even worse than this.

But if we went back to the old ways, college students wouldn't think we're cool. Gotta keep our priorities straight.

This is no mere "trendy fad," it's a bureaucratic imperative. I'd bet that anti-discrimination laws and accreditation agencies encourage personnel LGBT diversity, even on Catholic college campuses. Since the Jesuits always tended to educate the most elite, they tend to be targeted most.

Not that the activists don't have allies in the administration and the Jesuit order itself, it's just that the administration is somewhat captive to legal and political pressure.

1980 was pre-DADT, yes? Would the appointee have been asked whether she was homosexual? If so, did she lie?

Remember, this was Cold War-era. A closeted officer could be compromised by capable foreign agents.

"However, I’ll bet many of my fellow conservatives would refuse to watch the film all the way through. Some because it features, well, a drag queen. Some because — gasp! — it contains “cursing.""

Even the average intelligent conservative would have problems telling "Hedgwig" apart from something like "Angels in America" or "Rent." I've only seen the last, and to my mind they're all in my vague category of "award-baiting, activist narcissism intended to glamorize people who don't deserve it."

It's increasingly difficult for me to justify indulging in envelope-pushing artistic works, no matter their redeeming qualities, when their culture-destroying effects are becoming more clear.

Is my enjoyment of the arts more important than setting an example? How can I complain about being forced to pay for the self-destructive behavior of the underclass or the art house trash or the dissolute collegian, when I'm not willing to adopt the standards of public morals which helped keep that kind of misbehavior to a minimum?

Isn't a society which would rather not know the details of a drama about a botched sex-change operation a lot better than a society which presents knowledge of such dramas as a mark of enlightenment?

In better times, this would provoke riots and several hundred dozen challenges to duel. Mathers would be whipped and thrown in the stocks for public entertainment.

In better times a man wouldn't name himself after a children's candy-coated chocolate treat.

And in better times sarcastic indifference would be recognized as a dishonorable custom of a debased and submissive people.