K-Lo has an interesting, if not distressing, piece up on the main page about a letter to alumni from the President of Loyola University (New Orleans), Father Kevin William Wildes, S.J., defending the Catholic university’s decision to allow the Vagina Monologues to run on campus. It’s more of an embrace of the decision than a defense, actually. I’m an alumnus of the school, having graduated from the College of Business some 15 or so years ago. To say I was disheartened by Fr. Wildes’ email “letter” would be an understatement.

I haven’t seen the play, nor will I. But I have read enough about it — passages devoted to statutory rape between a twenty-something woman and a 13 (now 16, given the initial outrage) year old girl — to know that it has no place on a Catholic college campus. I had unfortunately deluded myself into thinking that my alma mater was immune from this sort of non-sense, which has infected a couple dozen other Catholic colleges and universities. But I was wrong. So cheers to Fr. Wildes, the new admininstrator of the University. He’s succeeded in dumbing down an excellent educational institution in the name of political correctness.