While I applaud Professor Hagen’s utilization of our First Amendment right to the freedom of speech and expression of our views, the views you elaborated on in her Letter to the Editor in Monday’s Daily Free Press are so baffling I was unable to completely process them during my first examination.

I am sure I do not have to inform her, a well-educated mental health professional, that today’s youth are acutely aware of the situations and consequences of their actions in which they are involved. The purpose of a GSA is not to purport the idea that “anything goes and there is no downside to any act.” Instead such an organization is designed to promote the tolerance and celebration of the differences that make us human. I am very sorry to hear that she believes that all people who engage in anal sexual intercourse are doomed to a life of AIDS and protease-inhibitors only to be cast down to the depths of hell in the afterlife; but, once again I am sure I do not have to tell her that homosexual people are not the only people who engage in anal sexual intercourse.

The teaching of safe-sex practices occurs in elementary school when many people are first exposed to “Sex Education,” or “Family Life” as it was referred to in my school district. I am sure it would be comforting to the Professor to know that all the men and women on this planet only have sex with members of the opposite sex, but as a psychologist she knows that is not true. To only teach heterosexual students the means to engage in sex safely the school is being remiss in teaching a portion of its student body. Wouldn’t it then be the schools fault if that student contracted AIDS later in life? I think Professor Hagen has extrapolated our society’s penchant for the overuse of the legal system to a degree that is ludicrous.

As for her view that the BUA’s Gay-Straight Alliance, not support group, was not made out of homophobia but out of a “clear-sighted view of what constitutes an appropriate mission for the Academy and what does not,” I am quite shocked. I have come to expect such comments, made mainly out of the hope for some sense of “shock value,” by our Chancellor, not a Professor teaching students about mental health and well-being. Unfortunately, once again, I am disgusted that portions of my tuition pay to keep a person here who thinks that a fairly significant portion of their student body is not only doomed to a life of AIDS, but is also a vile person who is socially degraded and will spend the eternity of the hereafter suffering for the “life of sin” that none of us had a say in. Perhaps if the Professors high school had boasted a Gay-Straight Alliance her perception of reality and the needs of today’s youth would not be so skewed.