Sarah Jane Eubanks embraced the abstinence message in high school but when she got to Texas A&M there were few resources to help her keep that commitment.

“There is a lack on campus for sure. I think I can look back and remember seeing maybe a flyer or two every once in a while.”

Several Ivy League schools and a handful of other colleges are taking up the slack. Harvard, MIT and Princeton have started student organizations that look like high school clubs on steroids. Princeton Anscombe Society faculty rep Robert George says the currency at colleges and universities is reason.

“What we need to be doing is equipping our college students to understand the reasons and to make the arguments supporting virtue in matters of sexuality, the institution of marriage.”

Instead of gathering together in corner classrooms and whispering encouragement to one another, these college groups are taking the abstinence battle to those who preach sex anytime, anywhere, with anyone. Linda Klepacki of Focus on the Family Action is thrilled.

“This next generation is just proving to be warriors for health and I am grateful.”

Rings and pledges may be fine in high school but there’s nothing like a good argument to motivate the college set.