'Have no fear of them'

National | How to survive "orientation" at a secular university

ONE YEAR AGO I WAS AN excited college freshman. I'd chosen a secular school with the course of study I wanted to pursue. I went to college looking forward to the courses, new friends, and living away from home. I expected to get an education, but what I got was a surprise.

The first shocker was Freshman Orientation, which you should know right now is a terrible misnomer. The correct term would be Freshman Indoctrination. Many schools basically hold students hostage for three or four days and attempt to reprogram their brains on matters of moral relativism, tolerance, gay/lesbian/transgendered rights, postmodernism, and New Age spirituality. Orientation skits sent messages like, "it's okay to have premarital sex, just use a condom," "underage drinking is accepted (and expected), but if you have sex when you're drunk you have the right to press charges for rape," "homosexuality is normal, get used to it." And that was all before the first day of classes started.