covered in the same Instructions. So why is it being treated as if it were?

If anybody can be offended on anybody's behalf, and make it stick, we're in 1984, not 2006. Still, we may adapt to this strangely tense new world by simply not talking about things that should be possible between civilized adults. That last go-round in the Colonel's office, I spread my hands and said: “Hey Colonel, a lot of literature is about sexuality. Are you telling me not to acknowledge that fact?”

He looked at me steadily. “Yes,” he said.

Is this any way to run a college? Or a fleet?