Duke University Hires Strippers for Campus Event

The “New Whore Order” is just another example of how parent’s tuition money is being misspent!

2008 Campus Outrage Awards
The Collegiate Network

Proving that crazy and absurd antics of college life are no longer confined to fraternities and sororities but have now expanded into the classroom and administration buildings, the Collegiate Network announces the annual “Campus Outrage Awards.”

This year’s winners:

1. Duke University

At Duke, strippers at a private off-campus party are cause for scandal – and accusations of rape – but strippers on a public, on-campus stage are a source of academic appreciation.

During the Duke lacrosse “rape” scandal, the university administration criticized the lacrosse team for inviting a stripper to an off-campus party. The infamous “Group of 88” faculty members took out a full-page ad in the campus daily asserting that “regardless of the outcome of the police investigation,” the lacrosse players were guilty of something very bad because they paid a young woman to perform for them. Yet last February, the school hosted the Sex Workers Art Show Tour, which features strippers, prostitutes, and phone-sex operators in a “cabaret-style” performance. While some of the performers read poetry, others stripped to near-nudity and donned artificial sex organs (while mocking President George W. Bush). The show’s motto is “new whore order.”

In 2006, associate dean of students Stephen Bryan, criticizing the lacrosse team, said “It’s a moral choice. … We made a decision that a stripper at a campus event is something that we don’t want to support.” Vice President of Student Affairs Larry Moneta said that the event is “evidence that Duke continues to be a community filled with diverse people and opinions, and one committed to academic freedom and free speech.” In fact, the Sex Workers Art Show “is a hallmark of the intellectual environment [students] will experience at Duke.”

Duke is not alone in welcoming the Sex Workers Art Show, which is built on the in-your-face promotional model of the Vagina Monologues. Schools from UC Davis and Northern Arizona University to Harvard and the University of Michigan have featured this fine arts program. Yale isn’t yet on the roster, but its ivy-clad halls feature “Sex Week” every year. While the event was ostensibly academic in nature when it began in 2003, it has degenerated into a week-long fraternity party, with pornographic film screenings, lectures by sex industry workers, and free goody bags filled with contraceptives and sex toys, courtesy of the University Health Services center.

As the Sex Workers Art Show and similar movements tour campuses, students and parents may wonder for what exactly are they paying tuition: Why not just spend your college years attending frat parties with strippers? Just remember, if you want to go to a strip show, be sure it’s a school-sanctioned one.

One wonders if the same bunch of professional protesters that demanded the Duke Lacrosse players be castrated for hiring strippers for their off campus party where false rape allegations were raised were among those enjoying the show of sex workers in the “New Whore Order?”

Make sure to read the rest of the 2008 Outrage awards. You won’t want to miss the number two recipient, the University of Delaware, which used tuition money for a program that would “leave a mental footprint” on the “consciousness” of students. Just what kind of brainwashing did they have in mind? Here’s a slice:

“A RACIST: A racist is one who is both privileged and socialized on the basis of race by a white supremacist (racist) system. The term applies to all white people (i.e., people of European descent) living in the United States, regardless of class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality. By this definition, people of color cannot be racists, because as peoples within the U.S. system, they do not have the power to back up their prejudices, hostilities, or acts of discrimination. (This does not deny the existence of such prejudices, hostilities, acts of rage or discrimination.)”