FRC Advisor Questions Morality of Environment, Quality of Education at Harvard
by Jim Brown and Jody Brown
February 23, 2004
(AgapePress) - A pro-family physician in Massachusetts says moral degeneracy has become the norm at Harvard University. Students at the Ivy League school are not only living in a morally degenerate campus environment, he says, but also paying $35,000 a year for a "substandard" education.Harvard recently approved a student magazine called H Bomb which will feature articles about sex and photographs of nude Harvard undergraduates. Even though the Harvard Crimson calls the new publication a "porn magazine," the two young women publishing H Bomb tell the Washington Times they disagree with that assessment.
Katherina Baldegg and Camilla Hrdy say their project is just "a magazine that deals with sex and the issues surrounding sex for men and women of all sexual orientations." In a joint statement, they say the mag will provide "comfortable, relaxed discussion that doesn't hold back and puts a lighter spin on something that shouldn't be a restricted or delicate topic at Harvard."
Dr. John R. Diggs, an advisor to the Washington, DC-based Family Research Council, says he is not surprised the 368-year-old school is endorsing pornography. A number of people in the school's hierarchy have sexualized problems themselves, he says.
"Harvard has clearly strayed from its roots," Diggs says. "It was originally founded as a seminary to bring the light of Jesus Christ to the world -- and that's what it's for: to train people to be able to do that. There are a variety of organizations which have highlighted the fall of higher learning, so to speak, into lower learning -- some of them are actually teaching courses on pornography. This certainly happened at the University of California at Berkeley and a variety of other schools."
Diggs cites as one example Mount Holyoke College which, like Harvard, is located in Massachusetts. That school, he says, actually had a course on how to strip. "This is a women's college that decided to teach women how to strip," he says. "So that a school [Harvard] would eventually have a publication which is pornographic on its face is no surprise."
According to Diggs, Harvard's endorsement of the student porn magazine should make parents think twice about sending their teens to the school.
"I think the real bottom line comes from the people that pay their paycheck -- and that is the parents," he says. "The parents are the ones who drop the paychecks on these schools, and I think they need to have a bit more influence on what happens at the school.
"One way that this can speak is by simply choosing to go to other schools. There are other excellent schools; they may not be perfect, but at least they have a solid base."
Diggs says for several decades, Harvard and other "elite" universities have been selectively choosing people who have a liberal mindset from the beginning. "One of the essences of liberalism is not to have a base -- it's to be ever changing, to have no foundation," he says. "And therefore, when you start drifting, you don't even know you're drifting."
Diggs says because school officials have lost their moral compass, they simply do not see degenerate things as being degenerate.
Harvard just reported this month that almost 20,000 students have applied for entrance next September -- the second largest pool in school history.
