… and their incoming students need. Before the University of Montana administration took them down, the following signs greeted this fall’s students:
Montana Hunting Season OPEN. Female Students The Prey.
Get Drunk. Get Raped. The Players Are Ready.
… and their incoming students need. Before the University of Montana administration took them down, the following signs greeted this fall’s students:
Montana Hunting Season OPEN. Female Students The Prey.
Get Drunk. Get Raped. The Players Are Ready.
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Dr. Bernard Carroll, known as the "conscience of psychiatry," contributed to various blogs, including Margaret Soltan's University Diaries, for which he sometimes wrote limericks under the name Adam.
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August 29th, 2015 at 5:23PM
maybe it was guerilla style protest art? some truth in advertising i’m afraid.
August 29th, 2015 at 10:23PM
According to the Billings Gazette story, “campus police are reviewing videotape to see if they can identify a culprit. However, [the campus police chief] did not know if posting the sign involved any kind of criminal act, and he also believed the message might be protected speech.”
Um, MIGHT be protected speech? The campus POLICE are involved? And they think a CRIMINAL ACT might have occurred? And they’re looking for a “culprit”?
Jesus Fracking Christ.
This sort of speech policing is a real sore point with me. (Long story involving my own campus.)
August 30th, 2015 at 10:05AM
I don’t know about your campus, Doc, but on mine it is basically forbidden to put up any kind of sign or banner that has not been approved by Dean of Students Bessie von Blondenhagen or her minions, the only exception being departments using only their official bulletin boards. Sidewalks may be written on without pre-approval, but woe to the miscreant who uses colored chalk. Come to think of it, I’m surprised that our large progressive community has not gone ballistic about the white chalk mandate, which is quite obviously a humungomacroaggression.
Administrative lethargy and the downsized maintenance staff lead to less-than-aggressive enforcement, but anything casting aspersions on athletes would be gone in an instant. “The Republicans Are Ready,” “The Meat-Eaters Are Ready,” or “The Arts and Sciences Faculty Are Ready” would probably be safe for a time.