Prometheus 6

I ask because there's a SERIOUS need for an analysis of The Miseducation of the Caucasian.

Quote of note:

Every student takes a course called "Foundations of Liberty," which teaches that democracy rests on biblical principles, traditional sex roles, limited government and private property rights.

Patrick Henry College in Purcellville, Va., does more than train home-schooled students. College administrators say that it also provides evangelical Christian home-schooling parents with a campus culture uniquely suited to their values — where the core curriculum includes a semester of "biblical reasoning" and students are expected to graduate with their chastity intact. [P6: I wonder how they verify that last one?]

In its application form, the college does not ask prospective students their race, but the student body is nearly entirely white. One black student attended briefly but soon dropped out, several students said.

The college enforces a strict moral code. Drinking without parental supervision is forbidden. Students live in single-sex dormitories. Male students are required to wear their hair neatly and women must dress "modestly."

Campus televisions block MTV and VH1 because the college considers their programming to be racy, and students' computers come equipped with a software program called "Covenant Eyes" that monitors the Web sites they visit.

But the most popular rule among parents, administrators say, is also the most controversial among students: the "courtship policy."
Before spending much time alone with a female student, a male student must ask her father or guardian for permission to court. Even then, displays of affection on campus are limited to holding hands while walking. If a couple stop moving, they must step apart.

Jane Grisham, a senior from California, said that in her first month on campus, a male student called her father to ask permission to woo her. "My dad thought he was crazy," she said.

All in all, though, several students said they were pleased with the rules. "You are having fun, but you are careful to adhere to the principles that you have always been taught," said Christy Somerville, a sophomore, "so you know what fun is O.K. and what is not."

Every student takes a course called "Foundations of Liberty," which teaches that democracy rests on biblical principles, traditional sex roles, limited government and private property rights.

Aside from the issue of slavery, the course suggests, early America was nearly ideal. In a recent seminar on Tocqueville's depiction of the early Republic, for example, Prof. Robert D. Stacey quizzed the class: "Who is chiefly responsible for the raising of children? Mothers, right? Sounds like a certain home-schooling movement I know."