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

Sutherland, Brittany: Sexual Health


            Sexual culture is a highly touchy subject, especially among adolescents whose families would rather not believe their children are engaging in such behavior. More often than not, nowadays, people have had past sexual experiences prior to marriage. But, I don’t believe that today’s college students are having more sex than before, especially when it comes to “hook-up” type encounters.
            From my point of view, adolescents are not having sex more often than previous generations. To me, sex should be between couples that truly love each other. There are still many that believe that sex should only be between a married man and woman, but I wouldn’t go so far. My beliefs and everyone else’s, of course, aren’t the same.  Some are much more lenient and others far more strict.
            There are still students who sleep around often, and perhaps as time has gone on sexual culture has changed and such behavior is less frowned upon in our generation. In my life however, sexual relationships are still treated as taboo. Not all of my friends share these ideas though, one of my very best friends had the mentality of partying and sleeping around and she had a child from one of her “hook-ups”.
            The phrase “dating is dead” is very untrue around Magnolia. In our southern locale, everyone I know has dated at least once before entering college, though dating has changed. Past generations used dating to find a partner to spend life with, now it is just another way to get with someone sexually.
            With more education available today about pregnancy and STDs students, from my perspective, have been having less casual sex. While college students have always been wildly experimental, sleeping around constantly is becoming less a part of their experimentation.

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