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Grinching the green: [Canadian] university bans St. Patrick’s Day celebrations from campus
National Post ^ | March 3, 2016 | Tristin Hopper

Posted on 03/03/2016 9:59:45 AM PST by rickmichaels

Spooked by the spectre of 7,000 drunken university students flooding into the streets on St. Patrick’s Day, Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ont., has authorized swift measures to purge the Irish-tinted celebration from its campus.

St. Patrick’s Day merchandise has been banned from the campus bookstore and vendors of green leprechaun hats have been turned away.

Extra security will be posted to keep drunk students out of campus buildings. And all building doors along the university’s south and western edges will be locked to seal the campus off from neighbouring street parties.

As university provost Deborah MacLatchy wrote in a message to staff, the measures are meant to “shift the culture” around Waterloo’s ever-rowdier St. Patrick’s Day.

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1 posted on 03/03/2016 9:59:45 AM PST by rickmichaels
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To: rickmichaels

How about arresting and prosicuting the drunks? They tolerated the evil until it grew to massive proportions so now the solution is to arrest St Patrick.

A microcosm of the demise of America.

They destroy what is good to protect evil’s freedoms.


2 posted on 03/03/2016 10:11:39 AM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: rickmichaels

What you get when you elect socialists.


3 posted on 03/03/2016 10:14:44 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: rickmichaels

An excuse. Because it’s SAINT Patrick’s day. Just like the bastards want to dump Columbus day, they want to eliminate anything associated with Christianity, even if in NAME ONLY.


4 posted on 03/03/2016 10:27:25 AM PST by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: I want the USA back

MacLatchy? How Orange of her! John Knox and Ian Paisley would be proud of the bonnie little harridan.


5 posted on 03/03/2016 10:36:59 AM PST by namvolunteer (Obama says the US is subservient to the UN and the Constitution does not apply. That is treason.)
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To: rickmichaels

But they’ll gladly release the students for Spring Break, right?


6 posted on 03/03/2016 11:31:28 AM PST by DPMD
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When I saw the headline, I thought it was a joke from something like The Onion. No joke.
7 posted on 03/03/2016 11:42:13 AM PST by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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To: I want the USA back

“they want to eliminate anything associated with Christianity, even if in NAME ONLY.”

Oh Puhleeeeez. Saint Patrick’s day in the USA is now nothing but a holiday for drunks to have another excuse to get drunk.


8 posted on 03/03/2016 1:39:39 PM PST by rhoda_penmark
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