SAU Honors College

The SAU Honors College was founded in 2003 by Dr. David Rankin, president of SAU. Dr. Lynne Belcher served as founding director and is retired from SAU. The Honors College seeks and admits qualified students who seek to pursue a serious academic program with equally gifted peers and committed teachers. Honors classes are small and provide academically enriching opportunities for students and the faculty who teach them. Currently, SAU enrolls nearly 170 honors students and graduates about 66% of admitees in four years or less. Anyone interested in applying to the Honors College or seeking further information should contact the director, Dr. Edward P. Kardas at epkardas@saumag.edu or at 870 904-8897.

Saturday, November 16, 2013

O'Neal, Kayla: Sexual Health


     Do college students participate in more sexual intercourse then they used to?  Personally, I don’t know for sure.  I do not encourage the discussion of sexual activities with my friends.  I am aware of all that is going on around me, but feel that sex something that should be saved for my future husband only.  

     People may be participating in sex more, but I definitely believe it has become more socially acceptable than it used to be.  If a non-married coed had become pregnant in the 1960s she would have been shunned and even kicked out of school.  Now, people produce TV shows about teenagers getting pregnant.  Also, TV shows, even those that are on family-oriented stations, show many sex scenes or speak about sexual topics freely.  Commercials, too, now show naked men and women in the showers and no one is even bothered by it. 

     Our culture is bombarded by the ideas of having sex before marriage or with different people even afterward.  Both now border on normal, and many even see them as desirable.  So, I believe that college students today do not see anything wrong with “hooking up.”   They think that if they don’t hook up that there is something wrong with them.

     College students may not have more sexual intercourse than they used to, but I think they definitely don’t see anything wrong with having sex and not being married.    

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