Feb 21, 2008

A gathering of the goodie-two-shoes...in Gotham?

I don't know which part of this David Segal feature on King's College bothers me more: its wide-eyed-yet-condescending look at young evangelicals or its suggestion that all NORMAL, less-Jesus-loving college students in crazy, godless New York ever do is take ecstasy and have random sex. (I have it on the best of authority that some college students in New York--even Catholics and atheists and Jews!--spend most of their time studying and sitting around.)

Check out this lede:

Saturday night in midtown Manhattan, and 25 college students are packed into the living room of a small apartment. The festivities are about to get underway, and in this demographic, in this town, that typically means mind-altering substances, which segue to deafening music, which ultimately leads to nudity.

That's not happening here. There isn't a bong in sight, or a drop of liquor. Just 7Up and Edy's ice cream. And when the student in charge of this shindig says it's time for the evening to begin, he doesn't bust out a cooler of Smirnoff Ice. He asks everyone to bow their heads and pray.

7Up, ice cream, and prayer. How precious.

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