Send bears, not sheep

College survival suggestions from students and parents | Marvin Olasky

God's grace: that's the lesson inherent in many of the 200 letters received in response to "The tragedy of American college education" (Aug. 23/30). Amazingly, as sheep are about to eaten up by wolves in shepherd's clothing, the Good Shepherd calls them, and his sheep follow that strong voice. But does that mean we pay no attention to the wolves? Should we be sinfully complacent, so that grace might more abound? By no means.

How can students be better prepared? Frank Raymund suggested, "Don't send sheep, send bears." When he arrived at the University of Chicago during the 1980s, he already had been exposed to C.S. Lewis and Francis Schaeffer and was able to debate atheistic students and professors. He also had stood up against peer group pressures in high school, "so I knew it doesn't kill you. Consequently, at college, no one could pressure me into drinking."