Leave it to Penn State to discriminate against student parents. This weekend, some mom friends and I tried to take our children to see the movie Monsters Inc., offered by Late-Night Penn State.

Unbeknownst to us, we had to have our student IDs with us. I was told strictly only one guest only per ID and that I would have to choose which of my children I wanted to take in. Since my friend and the kids had no ID, we asked if we could find people to take us and our kids in to the movie, and the person in charge, John Harlow, agreed. That is until we actually found people to take us in; He changed his mind and said we were cheating and our children were not allowed to go in the movie as the guest of someone else.

We weren't allowed in with our kids, but the cute girls ahead of us did the same thing, found someone with an ID to take them in, and they were allowed. But then again they didn't have kids. I guess Late-Night Penn State just didn't want kids to be at a children's movie. After five years at Penn State paying a student activity fee for programs that I can never participate in since I am at home with my son, I finally found something.

Unfortunately, being a student with children is not good enough to be let into a children's movie here at Penn State when the people in charge and mean and inconsistent with their rules.