<p>All is not lost, CD. I hear that UW Oshkosh and UW Eau Claire are very welcoming to zombies.</p>
<p>Wait-- I might have spoken too hastily. Apparently The whole state of Wisconsin is preparing for the Zombie Apocalypse [Wisconsin</a> Association Against the Zombie Apocalypse | Facebook](<a href=“Facebook”>Wisconsin Association Against the Zombie Apocalypse)</p>
<p>^^ In case that link to the FB group will be removed, it can be found at “Wisconsin association against the Zombie Apocalypse”</p>
<p>The “zombies” group mentioned in post # 113 can also be easily found on FB.</p>
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<p>Different people can have very different experiences at the same college.</p>
<p>It sounds to me as though the poster who was disappointed in her experience at a similar school (perhaps even the same one) felt somewhat atypical and out of place there. You were luckier.</p>
<p>I just love those arguments about how kids need to be eased into the party scene or they’ll go nuts. The argument makes no sense to me and is obviously perpetuated by high school age kids.</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s a matter of being eased into the party scene as much as it is being eased into managing their own time and handling responsibilities independently.</p>
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<p>That makes sense. I think the “practice drinking” so they don’t go crazy is hogwash.</p>
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Well duh-- it goes without say that people have different experiences in college. Thats the whole point. Momzie’s perception, based on her experience, seems to be that people might be somehow shielded from the “real world” in certain environments. I am saying that I had the opposite experience as she described, and no, we didn’t go to the same school or even in the same decade. My point is, I think it has more to do with the person than the school, when/where/how they develop their life skills. Environment is only part of the recipe.</p>
<p>Can being a zombie be a “hook?”</p>
<p>Not sure, GTalum, but might qualify as a URM (or would that be a URZ?)</p>
<p>A lot of people have rational reasons for disagreeing with homosexuality (e.g. religious reasons). This does not make them a bigot. This in your face: accept homosexuality otherwise you are a bigot is just irritating. .</p>
<p>If you watch the zombie movies, they won’t be URMs for very long!</p>
<p>@tega, I don’t call people bigots as it’s too general. I find intolerance irritating.</p>
<p>The zombies in Wisconsin must have voted out Russ Feingold. Sigh.</p>
<p>Re Momzie’s post. At first I feel sympathy for the Christian student and the post feels plausible. But then I rethink it and think there are problems.</p>
<p>I have had students who complained that Christians (and by that they mean Fundamentalists because they exclude Catholics and many other Christian groups) are given a raw deal in my class. By that they mean that I don’t recognize the Bible as the received word of God. It’s relevant because I often teach the Mythology course.</p>
<p>Many “Christian” students are used to being in environments that are so reinforcing tht anything less feels hostile when it isn’t.</p>
<p>Those students who feel uncomfortable getting information about a GLT lifestyle can leave a club I would think.</p>
<p>How do we go about stopping the Christmas music at Starbucks?</p>
<p>I don’t mean that seriously, but it’s a little like objections to Women’s Studies, that we don’t have Men’s Studies. Hey, the other courses qualify.</p>
<p>My kid is at an Eastern elite liberal school. I have never heard any discussion of Christians being discriminated against. I think all that would not be tolerated would be evangelical proselytizing. There would be a problem there.</p>
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<p>There’s nothing “rational” about a “religious reason”; religious faith requires the suspension of rationality.</p>
<p>West Wing did a wonderful job of deconstructing the religious prohibitions. If we followed the Bible we’d stone folks who planted two kinds of crops in one field, wore two kinds of fibers, handled pig skin (football players), didn’t observe the Sabbath and on and on.</p>
<p>Why are the chapters and verse about homosexuality taken seriously when none of the above are.</p>
<p>That’s why we <em>can</em> call it bigotry – such selective observance.</p>
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<p>A lot of people have rational reasons for disagreeing with mixed - race marriage (e.g., religious reasons). This does not make them a bigot. This in your face: accept mixed - race marriage otherwise you are a bigot is just irritating.</p>
<p>See how dumb it sounds, tega?</p>
<p>Anyway, what’s to “accept” or not accept about homosexuality? It’s like saying that I “accept” left-handers or people who wear glasses. It just is what it is, and doesn’t affect me, a heterosexual woman, in any way, so I don’t even get what being “accepting” means.</p>
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<p>I love you mythmom for mentioning The West Wing. In the second season ‘The Midterms’ episodes deals with a radio personality who doesn’t stand when the President enters the room. He addresses her and criticizes her on her radio show:</p>
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<p>-edit- misread earlier post. Apologies!</p>
<p>Whether you believe Jesus was the son of God or not, his message to me was always one of love and acceptance. You may not like the current situation, or person, or their lifestyle… but you should try to show love and acceptance.</p>
<p>A message to be heeded by all I think…</p>
<p>I have not read the thread but I always thought of morally upright as being:
- honest
- kind
- accepting
- non judgemental
- concern for others and society as a whole</p>
<p>So where does the non acceptance of others fit into this?</p>