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Student furry group approved at New York's SUNY Plattsburgh
The Post Millennial ^ | December 17, 2025 | Roberto Wakerell-Cruz

Posted on 12/18/2025 2:39:24 AM PST by Morgana

Student leaders at a New York state college have approved a new campus club dedicated to the “furry” subculture.

According to The College Fix, the Student Association at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh voted 11–1 on Nov. 16 to approve “Plattsfur” as a provisional student organization. The decision adds SUNY Plattsburgh to a growing list of universities that have formally recognized furry-themed clubs in recent years.

Furry fandom is a subculture centered on wearing animal character costumes.The International Anthropomorphic Research Project describes the community as including “fans, artists, writers, gamers and role-players” who typically create a personalized animal identity known as a “fursona.”

The group reports that more than 75 percent of furries are under the age of 25, with nearly 60 percent currently enrolled in college.

Plattsfur was presented to student lawmakers as a social and creative outlet. The club currently has 17 members, according to the campus newspaper Cardinal Points. Junior anthropology major Styx Williams said the organization was created to provide a place for students with shared interests to connect.

“We aim to not only have social dialogues, but also incorporate certain elements of crafts as well as arts, and not only teach methods, but also invite people to explore stuff that they may not have before,” Williams told Cardinal Points.

“Originally, this started with a handful of us that were friends that kind of just found out that we’re all furries,” Williams said. “We realized that there’s not really a club geared toward that on campus.”

Since receiving provisional approval, Plattsfur has hosted events including a coloring-page meet-and-greet and a campfire gathering, according to posts on the club’s Instagram account.

SUNY Plattsburgh is not alone. In the past two academic years, colleges approving furry clubs include Minnesota State University, Mankato; California Polytechnic State University; California State University, Northridge; the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; and others.

UC San Diego’s “Triton Tails,” a chapter affiliated with the global Anthromorphic Animal Appreciation Association, reports that there are now more than 100 university-based furry clubs worldwide.


TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: defundsuny; furry; plattsfur; suny

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They should form their own sorority or frat house. Gives a whole news meaning to the term "animal house"

from Imgflip Meme Generator

1 posted on 12/18/2025 2:39:24 AM PST by Morgana
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To: Morgana

So the taxpayers are putting their nasty little butts in “college” to learn how to be house mice, possums, Acme Coyotes, and other furry varmints?


2 posted on 12/18/2025 2:44:02 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Freedom isn' FREE. Neither is Socialism. Somebody has to pick up the tab for the freeloaders.)
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To: Morgana
The Asian students spend their time studying Maxwell's equations, and tensor mathematics.

The American students dress in onesy pajamas and make animal sounds and smells.

3 posted on 12/18/2025 2:44:30 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: Morgana

Apparently, the term “education” in higher education bears little resemblance to actual education.


4 posted on 12/18/2025 2:48:01 AM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing)T)
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To: Morgana

Democrat assassins and killers need little balls of fur to cuddle up to. Sickos.


5 posted on 12/18/2025 2:49:49 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Freedom isn' FREE. Neither is Socialism. Somebody has to pick up the tab for the freeloaders.)
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To: Morgana

“Plattsfur has hosted events including a coloring-page meet-and-greet and a campfire gathering”

Fake fur costume and sparks from the campfire could make for an interesting evening.


6 posted on 12/18/2025 2:52:31 AM PST by NH Red
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To: NH Red

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bal_des_Ardents


7 posted on 12/18/2025 3:01:17 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Democrats seek power through cheating and assassination. They are sociopaths. They just want power.)
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To: Flaming Conservative

emphasis on the “high” in “higher education.”

They must be.


8 posted on 12/18/2025 3:26:26 AM PST by normbal (normbal. Non-native Tennessean.)
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To: Morgana

Social contagions.

What these people don’t realize is, the kind of governance they typically advocate for - totalitarian socialist/communist regimes - traditionally treat their disorders with copper/lead “pills” after their useful idiocy has firmly ensconced said tyranny into permanent power.

While past acts of mass murder by the likes of Castro, Pot, Mao, Stalin, Lenin aren’t a guarantee of future performance, one can hope, can’t they?


9 posted on 12/18/2025 3:26:58 AM PST by normbal (normbal. Non-native Tennessean.)
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To: Morgana

If you give me a choice between furries and muslims I only have one thing to say: “whos a good boy!”

CC


10 posted on 12/18/2025 4:00:04 AM PST by Celtic Conservative (Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam!)
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LOL!


11 posted on 12/18/2025 4:00:28 AM PST by MayflowerMadam ( "Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away". - B. Franklin)
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To: Morgana

Ha!
That wasn’t the prevailing sort of fraternity “back in the day”
But it appears that “evolution” has reversed.


12 posted on 12/18/2025 4:06:44 AM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Just more Adult children trying to hide from reality. Sad, pitiful behavior actually.


13 posted on 12/18/2025 4:37:12 AM PST by The Louiswu (USA FIRST...USA FOREVER)
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To: Flaming Conservative

It’s a bunch of “adults” that refuse to grow up and actually learn how to operate in the real world.


14 posted on 12/18/2025 4:38:43 AM PST by Trumpette1954 (Live laugh love!)
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To: Morgana

Most people, probably including most parents, have no idea how pathetic most of our upcoming generation is. Good times create weak men, and have we ever created weak men (with poisoning dropping their testosterone to boot). Call it an 80-year, 4-generation cycle or whatever you will, but in this case it has been an orchestrated takedown of our young and their minds.


15 posted on 12/18/2025 5:04:44 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Flaming Conservative

College education will be the next Carnival cruise line. Nobody will sign on to years of that nonsense.


16 posted on 12/18/2025 5:57:38 AM PST by cnsmom
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To: Morgana

I was a guardian ad litem doing a home visit. When I arrived, the dad was dressed as a bat in a costume with feet and everything. These people need to grow up. It’s fine as a little kid or on Halloween or a costume party, but get real.


17 posted on 12/18/2025 6:13:29 AM PST by yldstrk
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To: Morgana
Just another sign of a decaying society.
When we no longer have to struggle for food and shelter we become soft and look for ways to fill the boredom.
When that's not enough, the entertainment becomes more and more perverse.
18 posted on 12/18/2025 6:29:12 AM PST by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, the Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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College education will be the next Carnival cruise line. Nobody will sign on to years of that nonsense.

Already happening. The university population is now 58% female and only 42% male.

19 posted on 12/18/2025 6:31:07 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: Morgana

The Animal House analogy is correct. College kids used to do all kinds of wild and crazy stuff. Today they can’t do anything because everything has to be “safe” and “controlled” and “politically correct”. But you can still dress up in a costume and hang out with friends who do the same.


20 posted on 12/18/2025 7:27:44 AM PST by CtBigPat (Thank you, JimRob. )
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