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CNN has a story on the rise of the counter-hookup culture on college campuses. The article highlights the decision of one young woman to refrain from hooking up because she “felt so empty then.” CNN also notes the Princeton-based Love and Fidelity Network, of which Robert P. George is an advisory board member.

Last year NAS published an review of three new “hook-up culture” books by Wendy Shalit in Academic Questions. Two of the three books she reviews are mentioned in the CNN article. Shalit is the author of A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue (1999), Girls Gone Mild: Young Women Reclaim Self-Respect and Find It’s Not Bad to Be Good (2007), and The Good Girl Revolution: Young Rebels with Self-Esteem and High Standards (2008). Her website is www.girlsgonemild.com

Well, the festivities, seminars, workshops and other aspects of Yale’s recent “Sex Week” are over, but don’t fret: there’s lots of follow-up information available that may tide you over until next year and beyond. The Yale Daily News is now publishing minute statistics and details about the libidinal lives of seemingly everyone at the New Haven campus. The school’s 46K annual tuition sure buys you a lot, doesn’t it?

The university is scurrying to disassociate itself from Awadh A. Binhazim, who is listed on the campus’ website as “Adjunct Professor of Islam at the Divinity School” and an adviser to the Muslim Student Association (MSA). Binhazim also offers courses gratis at Vanderbilt.

The professor, as World Net Daily reports, responded to a question before a “diversity” meeting of students by acknowledging that homosexuality is punishable by death under Islam and that he accepts whatever Islam teaches.

Devin Saucier, who posed the question and serves as president of Vanderbilt’s chapter of Youth for Western Civilization, called Binhazim’s presentation before the group a “30-minute, roses and butterflies overview of Islam.”

Saucier explained in a blog that he attended (and videotaped) the MSA-sponsored event out of curiosity about the

‘unholy alliance between Muslims and leftists – how could the latter, who fervently support multiculturalism, gay marriage, and gender equality, ally with the former, who support religious and cultural supremacy, traditional marriage, and the oppression of women? … I knew [the gathering] would be ripe grounds for me to expose the gullibility of leftists who grovel at the altars of tolerance and acceptance.’

The rest of this enterprising student’s observations about the event are of interest, as are Vanderbilt’s predictable evocations of “free speech for all” and simultaneous touting of its “non-discrimination” policies regarding sexuality.