If anyone's interested in reading Ryan's article, here's the link:

http://bbhssexed.tumblr.com/

Contrary to what some people believe, students at Parochial schools do not receive a great education. People pay good money to have their youth kept in the dark.
Randy Francisco

Blanchet is an Archdiocesan School. The problem is bigger than the local church, which is more liberal (believe it or not) than most in the US.

Lord forbid that anybody should find out that Mentifex (BHS 64) reads The Stranger (or even The Weekly), but having had my photo appear in the Blanchet Miter when I wuz a Blanchet senior, now I seize the chance to correct the record. The Miter journalist Mary Lampe asked me what I wanted to do in life, and I lacked the courage to let the Miter print the fact that I wanted to spend my life working on artificial intelligence (AI). U C, the Catholic Church back then might have taken a dim view of somebuddy trying to create an artificial Mind ( http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/AiMind.html ) which would severely test the proposition that human beings (but not robots) have souls. So instead of blurting out my deepest ambitions to the Blanchet Miter, I forever held my peace -- until now. As for the subject matter of the current Miter article, see http://mentifex.virtualentity.com/robowi… for the Mentifex take on things, or http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/20100522.ht… for an infinitely more explosive article than the rather tame student-rant under discussion here. In closing, a fond farwell to my freshman algebra teacher, Mr. Bill Herber of the Blanchet faculty.