2008 Woodie Awards
'Sex' goes on brief hiatus due to rage
SEX AND THE BUBBLE
Nikki Skora
Issue date: 2/17/06 Section: Trinity Life
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Some students may have noticed that the sex column was in absentia last week. I'd like to play it off as a silent protest of St. Valentine's Day. It wasn't, exactly, but we're going to journey down that road anyway. Kind of the way there weren't exactly weapons of mass destruction in Iraq (unless you count Saddam), but we journeyed down that road anyway.
I find the celebration of St. Valentine's Day highly illogical. Christians don't celebrate cigarettes on Easter because, in fact, Easter is a holiday that has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with cigarettes. Rather, it celebrates the resurrection of a religious figure. It celebrates the idea of new life with Easter eggs and baby animals that mess all over the floor. Easter is a nearly 2000-year-old holiday, yet its meaning has not been lost amid the commodification of its festivities.
Valentine's Day however, is a lost cause. Valentine's Day is based on the celebration of one of three possible third-century martyrs. Yes, that's right, we're not even sure who exactly St. Valentine was. None of these men had anything to do with some arbitrarily commercialized red and pink Technicolor version of what is supposed to be a very profound emotion. So, I decided the logical thing to do was give it about as much attention as it deserved (namely, none) and print articles about other, more exceptional subjects.
What does deserve some attention is what we, the students of Trinity, give (or more often do not give) our attention to. Sex is in absentia again this week. It is in absentia because I am furious. It's a healthy rage, really. At a recent meeting of Students Advocating Gender Equality (SAGE), a biology professor expressed disappointment, saying, "This campus is not political enough." I and several other students share her disenchantment with the eerily quiet apathy that fogs too large a portion of our University grounds.
Trinity is blessed with only a handful of politically-minded and active students. I believe that college is one of the most opportune times during which we can and should become politically aware, active and productive. We have many political groups on campus, and I would like to applaud the students who lead and organize these groups and the students who attend events organized by those groups.
I find the celebration of St. Valentine's Day highly illogical. Christians don't celebrate cigarettes on Easter because, in fact, Easter is a holiday that has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with cigarettes. Rather, it celebrates the resurrection of a religious figure. It celebrates the idea of new life with Easter eggs and baby animals that mess all over the floor. Easter is a nearly 2000-year-old holiday, yet its meaning has not been lost amid the commodification of its festivities.
Valentine's Day however, is a lost cause. Valentine's Day is based on the celebration of one of three possible third-century martyrs. Yes, that's right, we're not even sure who exactly St. Valentine was. None of these men had anything to do with some arbitrarily commercialized red and pink Technicolor version of what is supposed to be a very profound emotion. So, I decided the logical thing to do was give it about as much attention as it deserved (namely, none) and print articles about other, more exceptional subjects.
What does deserve some attention is what we, the students of Trinity, give (or more often do not give) our attention to. Sex is in absentia again this week. It is in absentia because I am furious. It's a healthy rage, really. At a recent meeting of Students Advocating Gender Equality (SAGE), a biology professor expressed disappointment, saying, "This campus is not political enough." I and several other students share her disenchantment with the eerily quiet apathy that fogs too large a portion of our University grounds.
Trinity is blessed with only a handful of politically-minded and active students. I believe that college is one of the most opportune times during which we can and should become politically aware, active and productive. We have many political groups on campus, and I would like to applaud the students who lead and organize these groups and the students who attend events organized by those groups.