South Bend, Ind., Oct 26, 2018 / 23:00 pm
Students at the University of Notre Dame have asked university administrators to block pornography on the university's wi-fi networks.
More than one hundred students signed letters, one sent by men and one by women, requesting that filters be installed on university networks. The letters also referenced an online petition, at which more than 1,000 "Students, Faculty, Staff, and Friends of Notre Dame" requested the same filter.
The men's letter, published Oct. 23 in the university's student newspaper, said that a filter "would send the unequivocal message that pornography is an affront to human rights and catastrophic to individuals and relationships."
The women's letter, published Oct. 24 in the same newspaper, was addressed to the signatories of the men's letter.
"We stand in solidarity with your request to filter out pornography on Notre Dame's wireless internet networks," it said.
"Every human person is worthy of the utmost dignity and respect. Pornography use at Notre Dame threatens this respect by preventing men and women from encountering the full personhood of one another in friendships and relationships. How? Pornography propagates a mindset that people, especially women, are mere sex objects," the Oct. 24 letter said.