<p>Can you believe?
My daughter was going to apply there... What a shame.</p>
<p>I don't understand, why are you shocked? Students have sex. That's hardly a breaking news headline! </p>
<p>My university has a similar support system - 'college families'. It's not unusual for 'incest' to occur. In fact, my 'college mother' married my 'college grandfather' last summer!</p>
<p>A group of young adults who spend an amount of time together end up having sex? E gad!</p>
<p>Also, this article is from 2004.</p>
<p>This is typical. Don't cut Pomona off your list because students have casual sex; if you eliminate schools based on whether the students have casual sex, you'll find yourself with a very, very short list.</p>
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"Sponcest is sweet. It’s like hooking up with your sister and your mom at the same time."
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<p>...W.T.F.</p>
<p>I didn't have a problem with the article until I came to that.</p>
<p>Surely the OP is joking? This is not news.....</p>
<p>Try reading some other student newspapers. Yale's has a sex columnist, or did at one time.</p>
<p>Student's write for shock value.</p>
<p>At your more academically challenging schools, casual sex is more common because students study too much to have time or emotional resources for a relationship.</p>
<p>Read "Charlotte Simmons" by Tom Wolfe. </p>
<p>Be more concerned about the air pollution at Pomona.</p>
<p>That reference to incest, I interpreted as a reference to a close group of friends. It wasn't literal.</p>
<p>The article is pretty funny, although clearly in the time-honored tradition of writing a news story about something that isn't news.</p>
<p>I love developments in college slang. The two extremely useful words I had never heard until a few years ago, which give a name to phenomena that have existed since time immemorial, are "sexile" and "dormcest".</p>
<p>Troll? Kid posting as parent? hmmmm....</p>
<p>And when I read the title of this thread, I heard clear as day in my head, Claude Rains saying, "I am shocked, shocked, to find gambling going on in here!" (For the youngsters or non-movie fans among us, it's from Casablanca.)</p>
<p>^^ROTFLM"D"O, Chedva. (D = derriere)</p>
<p>Kind of looks like a troll, kind of doesn't</p>
<p>Uh, it's a lot worse at other "top" schools, where there are whole student-run magazines on the topic...</p>
<p>Harvard: <a href="http://www.wiretapmag.org/stories/19159/%5B/url%5D">http://www.wiretapmag.org/stories/19159/</a></p>
<p>Yale: <a href="http://www.sexweekatyale.com/sex.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.sexweekatyale.com/sex.htm</a></p>
<p>Harvard had a student-produced sex magazine - "H-bomb". Better not apply there either.</p>
<p>OK, maybe I am stupid -- but what exactly is a "sponsor" at Pomona?</p>
<p>You're not stupid. I googled it up, as I was interested, too. The admin creates groups of freshmen on the dorm floors, with many activities to make close bonds like a family. THere are also upperclassmen in the family/sponsor unit. That's what I could figure out from reading; surely someone from Pomona can express it a lot better. It's meant to be a warm, connected network so kids feel included.</p>
<p>Ahh, I see. Makes sense now. Thanks!</p>
<p>Now I feel like I am superconservative here.
I am sure that romantic meaningful relationships still exist just may be not at Pomona.</p>
<p>A sponsor is a sophomore or junior who, paired with another sponsor of the opposite sex, is assigned to a group of about eight to twelve first-year students. This includes transfer/exchange students (my D was their sponsor last year). Sponsors are the first people first-years seek out for advice on classes, etc., support when encountering problems, and you name it. (There are also RAs in the dorms.) All students in the same sponsor group live in adjacent rooms in a residence hall, and sponsor groups are seen to be one of the many ways support groups are formed on campus. Kids from the same sponsor group have been known to remain close friends long after graduation.</p>
<p>In many ways, sponcest is a running joke on Pomona's campus, and it's a very open topic. Many kids will make efforts to avoid it b/c you are living so closely to one another and have developed close relationships as a result. But the word itself does sound pretty bad.</p>
<p>Hope you will change you mind about Pomona--it's a great school!</p>
<p>"At your more academically challenging schools, casual sex is more common because students study too much to have time or emotional resources for a relationship."</p>
<p>It's too bad.</p>