As I’ve said to others before, my beef is not that he was cancelled; it’s that this Corvino clown was booked in the first place, and that he STAYED booked for so long; it was an 11th-hour cancellation, but I guess the saying, “better late than never” holds true here. I’m glad that Dr. Balog set the precedent that he can and will use his presidential authority, but I think it does say something about Aquinas that there was not already a policy in place to say, “Look, they can’t bash the Church, mmm’kay?” Ah well. As someone who will be an alumni, I’m very pleased with this.

Now if only they would stop admitting more freshmen than they can afford to house and kicking everyone else off campus, forcing some to drop out of college all together because they cannot attend unless they live on campus. Friggin’ Trustees….but that is another blog for another day.

That said, onto the main point of this post.

I already posted last week about the immature vandalism of part of the display for Pro-Life Awareness Week here.  Well, the campus paper today ran an editorial that made me positivly livid.  (By “editorial,” I mean an official position statement of the paper itself, no name assigned to it.)  The “Cliff’s Notes” version is that the paper does not think our yearly pro-life week should be allowed to happen.  They even twist the words of our Holy Father to implicate his disagreement!  Sick!  >_<  Furthermore, they claim the week is a violation of the “Dominican heratige” of the college.  (Quotes used because that “heretage” is almost always a perversion thereof whenever the school mentions it.)  The article also implied that our cross display was “threatening” to pregnant students.  ばかだよ！

Besides the expected Letter to the Editor, I’m starting to contemplate writing the Bishop of the Diocese.  Do I think it’s going to do a scrap of good?  Crud no; this Bishop is as spineless as the horror stories you hear about no-knees Bishops.  However, I can at least say I “put my money where my mouth is.”  Blah.

Is there anything I should know for writing a Bishop?  Terms of address or other such things?  Comments appreciated.

God Bless!  ^_^

Where from comes this lovely sentiment? Well, my children, (who are probably older than I…) let me tell you a story.

Every year, the week after fall break at this college is Students for Life’s Pro-Life Awareness week. Every year, we put simple white, wooden crosses out in the grassy area by the statue of Mary, known to those at the school as “touchdown Mary.” The sign out there varies, usually some statistic, but it makes the purpose of the crosses plain. This year’s sign read, “1 out of every 4 pregnancies ends in abortion. Who’s missing from your life?” (Our president came up with that. The VP, yours truly, has about as much creativity as an orange peel.)

Every year, (I’m a fifth-year senior,) I hear rumors that the pro-abortion segment of the campus (the majority,) is going to put coat hangers on the display, vandalize it. Well, my first two years saw no protests that I noticed, and junior year it was mainly our fliers for events that week being ripped down. Immature, but whatever. Last year, on Wednesday of the week, (a day there are many fewer people on campus, which made their choice seem funny, though it IS also a day fewer people are in class,) there were students standing in front of the display all day holding pro-abortion signs and all that. A few of them made me laugh because I wanted to say, “EXACTLY!” Signs like, “It’s not your body!” Duh! Not your body, either! It’s another body, an innocent child’s, being dismembered in the womb. There was a letter written to the editor of the newspaper by an outraged student, and I agreed with that letter, but I knew the response that was going to come, and did the next issue. Another letter basically told that student where he could stick his views, and I have it on trustworthy authority that most of the faculty and staff believed the same. (Can you tell this “Catholic” campus is extremely liberal?)

So what happened this year, you may be asking? Well, Wednesday was uneventful, and the SFL pres and I both felt we must have dodged a bullet. Wrong. This afternoon, I was walking from my dorm to the student cafeteria for our speaker for the week, (”How Abortion Affects Men,” very good talk by a post-abortive couple; they had aborted two children (conceived in wedlock) and now have two about my age, a little younger,) and I walked past our cross display. This year, my fears of vandalism were more for the Memorial for the Unborn by the chapel, but that’s college property, so I guess in that sense the pro-death side isn’t always as dumb as it usually acts. Anyway, I see a huge sign in the ground that seems to obscure our smaller sign in the cross display. The sign gives some WHO stat about a number of women dead from illegal abortions (conveniently neglecting giving it any context that would put it in some kind of context,) and a coat hanger attached to the sign. Already, my blood pressure is up and I can hear my heart pounding in my ears. Naturally, I walk closer. COAT HANGERS ALL OVER THE CROSSES. This was done in front of the building where most of the PhDs have their offices, and I’ve no doubt someone probably saw something, but due to aforementioned liberal bias of the campus, deliberately chose not to act. I took pictures for evidence on my cell phone, and then went to the speaker. Appraised our president and staff sponsor (all clubs need either a faculty member or a staff member to sponsor the club,) of the situation, and she mentioned it to one of our theology profs. (The theology department here is golden; as one of my friends puts it, a real “diamond in the rough,” and dang is it rough going here most of the time.) The look on the professors face was one of profound disappointment. Anyway, our staff sponsor called….someone, probably to report the flagrant vandalism.

The happy end of this, though, is that a few of my friends went and took down the whole mess (and one “clepto-ed” the hangers for her own personal use :p ) and took the sign to the house that is my dorm. After we’d taken down the entire cross display (we were required to today instead of tomorrow, since our new president is being inaugurated tomorrow and a pro-life display might offend some donor >_> ) our president and her husband took the sign back to their place. The poles’ll probably be reused for something. :p Part of me can’t wait to see what happens in the next issue of the campus paper, but I have a strong feeling that if any students write to complain about the pro-abortion vandalism, they’ll effectively be told to “bite it.”

Yeah, don’t go to this school. Ever. Unless you enjoy a mecca of political correctness that rarely passes up a chance to be utterly ashamed of its Catholic identity, especially knowing the bishop of the Diocese is not going to do JACK!

OK, rant done, must write annotated bibliography and prepare for my in-class presentation Saturday morning. I need to do well because it’s also the day I’ll be asking that professor for a recommendation for the ACE program. Eep!

God bless!!! ^_^