Discussion on relationships tonight! Greg and Pam August who have been married for 21 years will talk about their relationship and offer advice to GW Catholics. Greg was our most popular speaker last year; Pam makes her first appearance at the Newman Center. Join us!
Speaking of relationships, a friend sent me the following about an essay contest on modern love by the New York Times. The Times is asking for stories about modern love and offering $1000 to the winner. My friend suggested that it would be good for GW Catholics to enter: “I think it would be a great opportunity to show that not everyone in our culture is sex-crazed.” She helped with a GW Hatchet story last year which involved two of our students, Matt Shoemaker and Andrew Buonopane. Here are excerpts from the article:
"Senior Matt Shoemaker, who has also chosen to abstain, said he believes that deferring sex until marriage is intimately related to the concept of love itself.
'If you commit to this sort of lifestyle, you can achieve it,' says Shoemaker, who cited the conflict between his former girlfriend's desire to have sex and his Catholic faith as an insurmountable problem for their relationship. 'I think it comes down to understanding what the actual purpose of love is.'
Junior Andrew Buonopane said he abstains because, in his mind, sex is too often connected with exploitation and ill treatment.
'Sex has a procreative function, it's the greatest form of love that two people can experience,' Buonopane says. 'In our society, sex has been used to express either lesser love, temporary affectionate feelings or a means to an end, a way to just feel good.'
Here is the info about the Times essay contest. If you have a good story or point of view but don’t want to sit down and write, my friend is “more than willing to help with the writing portion.” Deadline: March 21. Please click on today’s title to see the Times website about the contest.
"Three years ago we invited college students to tell us the truth about what love was like for them in this age of 24/7 communication, blurred gender roles and new attitudes about sex and dating. The response, from students at more than 365 colleges and universities nationwide, was overwhelming and eye opening.
So we’re asking again. If you have a personal story that illustrates the current state of love and relationships, e-mail it to us at essaycontest@nytimes.com. The winning author will receive $1,000 and his or her essay will be published in a special 'Modern Love' column on May 1, 2011, and on nytimes.com."
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