PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
Contact: Caitlin La Ruffa
Director, Love and Fidelity Network
609-688-8779 x 313
claruffa@loveandfidelity.org
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY – Dedicated to promoting an alternative to prevailing campus cultures that devalue sex and degrade meaningful relationships, hundreds of college students will gather for the Love and Fidelity Network’s seventh annual national conference, “Sexuality, Integrity, and the University” on the campus of Princeton University next week.
Featuring nationally-recognized speakers, such as Dr. Michael Pakaluk, Dr. Robert George, and Kay Hymowitz, student leaders from college campuses across the country will travel to New Jersey for an intensive two days of learning how to lead efforts to promote family, marriage, and sexual integrity on college campuses.
“On campuses around the country, students are increasingly realizing the empty promises of the hook-up culture,” said Caitlin La Ruffa, Director of the Love and Fidelity Network. “This annual event is a powerful way to remind students that they are not alone in their efforts to stand up for an authentic understanding of relationships, sexual integrity, and marriage and to equip them with the latest research in those fields.”
The conference, which will take place on November 7-8, will feature keynote addresses by George, a leading constitutional scholar and expert on religious liberty issues, Pakaluk, a former Marshall scholar whose work on true friendship is nationally-known, and Hymowitz, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute whose books include Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men Into Boys and Marriage and Caste in America: Separate and Unequal Families in a Post-Marital Age.
The event will also feature addresses by Dr. Scott Stanley, a research professor and co-director of the Center for Marital and Family Studies at the University of Denver whose recently published report addressed the question “what do premarital experiences have to do with marital quality among today’s young adults?”, Timothy Reckart, an Oscar-nominated animator and director, Kerry Cronin, a professor of philosophy at Boston College who has been called the “Date Doctor” for her work on dating at BC, and Dr. William Hurlbut, MD, a physician and Consulting Professor in the Neuroscience Institute at Stanford University. Last year, nearly 300 students from over 30 college campuses took part in the annual conference.
“With the disappearance of an authentic understanding of human love and relationships from college culture, this conference will provide a chance for student leaders to equip themselves with the tools they need to be effective witnesses for faithful love in their community,” said La Ruffa. “We hope it will help them build relationships with current experts and become future leaders of the movement to promote a culture of sexual integrity.”
The Love and Fidelity Network is the leading national program that promotes marriage and the integrity of sex at the collegiate level. It aims to equip college students with the resources, arguments, and support they need to uphold the institution of marriage, the special role of the family in society, and the integrity of human sexuality within their university communities and as leaders in the public square. It provides leadership coaching to these university men and women and offers funding for campus initiatives. The Network was established in Princeton, NJ, in 2007 in response to the inadequate treatment of marriage, family, and sexuality at many colleges and universities. Today, the Love and Fidelity Network actively supports over 60 student fellows and campus groups at 25 schools. The Love and Fidelity Network is the principal program of the Collegiate Cultural Foundation.
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