University: Community of Family or Community of the Barnyard?

I just read an insightful 2005 article by Ruth Lassiter titled The Role of the Shadow Curriculum in Achieving the Pax Academica. You can read the complete article in The Catholic Educator Vol. 51 Winter 2010. 

What underlying message, in addition to academics, does the university community send to the young people in its care? What is their "shadow curriculum?" The excerpt below describes what students experience on most college campuses today, sadly even Catholic ones:

The shadow curriculum is quick to recruit incoming freshmen. In their first week on the campus,