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Title: University of Texas issues 29-point checklist on offensive Halloween costumes
Post by: Sanguine on October 28, 2016, 05:33:36 pm
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Even themes approved by school ‘can be carried out incorrectly’

Leave your cowboy boots and Hawaiian leis at home this Halloween unless you want to hear from University of Texas-Austin administrators.

Sorority and Fraternity Life, part of the Office of the Dean of Students, issued its updated “costume and theme resource guide” last week, instructing UT Greeks to avoid Halloween party costumes and themes that may “appropriate another culture or experience.”

It’s one of many school-sponsored guides or checklists recently given to the nation’s college students, particularly members of fraternities and sororities, telling them what they can and can’t wear in the runup to Halloween....

http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/29680/

Good grief... :thud:
Title: Re: University of Texas issues 29-point checklist on offensive Halloween costumes
Post by: dfwgator on October 28, 2016, 05:35:33 pm
So I take it going as Charles Whitman will be on the list?
Title: Re: University of Texas issues 29-point checklist on offensive Halloween costumes
Post by: Wingnut on October 28, 2016, 05:37:58 pm
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This is TEXAS???? We're doomed. Oh, wait....it's Austin, not Texas.

 :tongue2:
Title: Re: University of Texas issues 29-point checklist on offensive Halloween costumes
Post by: Sanguine on October 28, 2016, 05:38:28 pm
So I take it going as Charles Whitman will be on the list?

Yeah, like any of the youngsters in college now even know who he was.   **nononono*
Title: Re: University of Texas issues 29-point checklist on offensive Halloween costumes
Post by: ABX on October 28, 2016, 05:38:50 pm
Most Texans I know, including myself, would call this a checklist of what to wear to piss off hippies and SJWs on Halloween.
Title: Re: University of Texas issues 29-point checklist on offensive Halloween costumes
Post by: Idaho_Cowboy on October 28, 2016, 10:03:19 pm
I was thinking about being a Lumber Jack is that okay?  :laugh:
Title: Re: University of Texas issues 29-point checklist on offensive Halloween costumes
Post by: Idaho_Cowboy on October 28, 2016, 10:06:16 pm
Wait Wait, redneck/trailer park dwellers are on the list. Hells bells what do they think Texas folk are the other 364 days of the year.  :silly: Just kidding Texans. 
Title: Re: University of Texas issues 29-point checklist on offensive Halloween costumes
Post by: Wingnut on October 28, 2016, 10:06:34 pm
I was thinking about being a Lumber Jack is that okay?  :laugh:


I cut down trees, I skip and jump, I like to press wild flowers
I put on women's clothing and hang around in bars////
Title: Re: University of Texas issues 29-point checklist on offensive Halloween costumes
Post by: r9etb on October 28, 2016, 11:32:48 pm
Good grief... :thud:

Even worse: the university paid somebody -- paid numerous somebodies, in fact -- to hold all the meetings to think up, create, edit, polish, and publish this thing.

Is it any wonder college costs are going through the roof?
Title: Re: University of Texas issues 29-point checklist on offensive Halloween costumes
Post by: geronl on October 29, 2016, 12:13:06 am
The state needs to cut off funds
Title: Re: University of Texas issues 29-point checklist on offensive Halloween costumes
Post by: IsailedawayfromFR on October 29, 2016, 02:01:29 am
The most frightening image I can think of is of Charlie Strong as the five million dollar man.

now that is a great way to waste a lot of taxpayer money.  Should scare anyone to see it.
Title: Re: University of Texas issues 29-point checklist on offensive Halloween costumes
Post by: Joe Wooten on November 10, 2016, 06:29:22 pm
Good grief... :thud:

PC crapola like this was the reason I quit the alumni association 20 years ago and refuse all attempts to re-join.
Title: Re: University of Texas issues 29-point checklist on offensive Halloween costumes
Post by: r9etb on November 10, 2016, 06:40:06 pm
PC crapola like this was the reason I quit the alumni association 20 years ago and refuse all attempts to re-join.

OTOH, PC crapola like this is part of the reason Hillary Clinton lost the election.  Rational people are sick of it.
Title: Re: University of Texas issues 29-point checklist on offensive Halloween costumes
Post by: Sanguine on November 10, 2016, 06:51:13 pm
OTOH, PC crapola like this is part of the reason Hillary Clinton lost the election.  Rational people are sick of it.

Good point.