April 21, 2007
Ivy League public safety
Yale has acted to prevent a campus rampage by sword-wielding thespians.
In the wake of Monday’s massacre at Virginia Tech in which a student killed 32 people, Dean of Student Affairs Betty Trachtenberg has limited the use of stage weapons in theatrical productions.
Students involved in this weekend’s production of “Red Noses” said they first learned of the new rules on Thursday morning, the same day the show was slated to open. They were subsequently forced to alter many of the scenes by swapping more realistic-looking stage swords for wooden ones, a change that many students said was neither a necessary nor a useful response to the tragedy at Virginia Tech.
Don't you feel safer?
Defenders of Liberal Academia -- a.k.a. the Edjimicated Class -- say they're not disconnected from Red State reality.
Heh.
Posted by Mike Lief at April 21, 2007 09:50 AM
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