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Dating and hook-up culture in 2021 are seemingly grouped together through the media, giving every thirsty college student access to dating apps like Tinder, Bumble, and Grindr.
Even amidst COVID-19 and the strict guidelines every student must follow, people’s lives do not stop. Students still want to live the stereotypes of college experiences even if it does end with some type of warning and a twenty-hour hangover.
According to an unnamed Champlain College student who was sitting at the Quad eating a banana in fifteen-degree weather; “Students are dangerously horny. One day they love you...but then you never see them again.”
Harshly abrupt, but honest, the unnamed student emphasized the fact that college students are wild-cards. “People just don’t care about feelings anymore...it’s ruthless,” said the student.
The phrase “dangerously horny” had already piqued immediate interest in the topic, which soon led to several other in-person interviews discussing whether single students living on campus continue to partake in dating and sex, or if people are willing to stay celibate for safety.
When Freshman Ella Brown was confronted with the rather private question, she gave a thoughtful response: “Personally I’m not really trying to hook up with people, but I know people who live in my dorm feel otherwise...I hear loud sex at 3 am sometimes.”
Brown then went on to explain that there is a mutual “No-snitch” policy in most dorms between students because “No one wants to ruin the college experience more than it already is ruined.”
Another Freshman Champlain student Kaylee Green, sitting next to Brown said about hookups at Champlain: “I’ve heard numerous stories about students sneaking their hook-ups into the dorms,”
“One time this guy in my class was bragging about how he went on...four Tinder dates in one weekend off-campus, brought one of his dates back to his dorm, and then got her free breakfast from IDX the next morning,” Green stated.
Brown and Green both seemed to agree that they know people who break the rules to get laid. However, the only way to truly understand how a horny college student copes with COVID was to track one down and ask them questions directly.
Figuring out who the most credible source was on the topic of ‘being horny’ was moderately difficult due to the on-campus pandemic regulations. Eventually, word of mouth from multiple students led me to freshman Jude Lee.
“I’ve always loved women,” Lee explains. His infatuation roots from the first time he laid his eyes on Cameron Diaz in The Mask. “Women should be celebrated all day every day,” Lee says.
In honor of International Women’s Month, Lee noted that his intention was to bring as much happiness to women as possible because of the ongoing stereotypes and societal pressures they endure. Before the pandemic he was single, looking for love. That failed, so Lee made the decision to love all women equally and to not just focus solely on one.
“No virus or pandemic will stop me from upholding my duty as a respectful lady-lover,” he explains. Jude Lee concluded by reciting a lyric from “Still Not a Player” by Big Pun: “I’m not a player, I just crush a lot.”
Ultimately, college students have and continue to have the tendency to do whatever they want regardless of sanctions or rules. The ancient philosopher Plato said it best: “Lust is inseparably accompanied with the troubling of all order, with impudence, unseemliness, sloth, and dissoluteness.” Colleges can throw as many restrictions on the students as they see fit, but each individual still decides for themselves when those rules matter. And for several Champlain-ers, lust is indeed accompanied by overruling order.
Investigative Journalism with Jilly: Edition One
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