Loco Parentis: Another Look at “Unwanted Advances” by Laura Kipnis
BY AARON BARLOW Somewhere around 1970, I walked by a wall on a college campus that had been plastered with a huge poster of Dr. Frankenstein’s monster. Below, someone had splashed the words “loco parentis.” That was exactly how we students felt in those days about college and university power over our lives. Then, it…