Making Eye Babies

OK, when Holly sent me this, I thought it was from The Onion, America's Finest News Source, but it is actually from the Chronicle of Higher Education. The article is called A College That's Strictly Different, it's about a conservative Pensacola Christian college with many, many rules for student behavior in and out of the classroom, and this is my favorite paragraph in it:

"Even couples who are not talking or touching can be reprimanded. Sabrina Poirier, a student at Pensacola who withdrew in 1997, was disciplined for what is known on the campus as 'optical intercourse' — staring too intently into the eyes of a member of the opposite sex. This is also referred to as 'making eye babies.' "

Hallelujah for academic freedom, I say. And if while imparting a sound, unaccredited education, this college can also deliver a smackdown on optical intercourse, thereby cutting down on the number of unplanned eye babies in the world, and by extension the number of single eye baby mothers who would probably just raise eye baby criminals, who are we to cast aspersions?

I just wonder if we could somehow spread the word that PCC and BJU and the like are out there so those far right conservatives who feel disenfranchised by a liberal arts education that requires an introduction to and critical examination of diverse perspectives could find their voice and maybe feel like they have some say in the political, moral, and social landscape of the U. S.