College Visit-Uncomfortable w/ Activities

Treetopleaf
Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:26:23 +0000

If prospective students can’t handle a bunch of people going off and doing a voluntary activity that doesn’t harm them, maybe they should go to a school with less freedom and tolerance of eccentricity.



I agree with you about this. But there is a difference between “people going off and doing a voluntary activity” and listing that activity in admissions office literature. One wouldn’t expect to see illegal or obviously immoral campus ‘activities’ listed there.

I think we should consider that there are many parents who would forbid their child from going away to any campus with clothing-optional activities and the like. Without parental support, most kids won’t go on to school. I have cousins who would never have gotten degrees if it were not for a local school that they could attend while living under mom and dad’s roof. The mom called me a ‘bad girl’ for going away to school, and this was years ago, when (I doubt) that they could have obtained written proof of what to them would be offending activities.

I still think it’s bad judgment on the part of the school to officially list a clothing optional activity, i.e. to imply that they condone it. But if their goal is to communicate the vibe of the school, that they achieved.