The goal of higher education is enlightenment. That the college experience is also conducive to sustained bouts of stupidity should come as news to nobody.
Raging hormones, binge drinking and parental distance are a formula for bad decisions and worse mornings after. That at least some of the University of Kentucky’s cheerleaders are alleged to have abused alcohol, applied provocative peer pressure and engaged in sexually charged conduct on school trips is about what you would expect of any close-knit group on most American campuses.
It is far less shocking, in fact, than if UK’s cheerleaders had all heeded the program’s puritanical travel policies posted in 2002.