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The photographs, which appeared on Battaglia's Web site, http://botag. net, depicted an "oversodomized frat pledge," "sorostitutes," and an unidentified white man wearing blue bed sheets with a caption referring to the Ku Klux Klan. A fourth photograph showed a white man in blackface and a bicycle chain over his shoulder, mocking Undergraduate Student Government (USG) and former Black Caucus Vice President Takkeem Morgan.

The College Republicans have a real winner on their hands. Why should anyone go to bat for him?

"A fourth photograph showed a white man in blackface and a bicycle chain over his shoulder, mocking Undergraduate Student Government (USG) and former Black Caucus Vice President Takkeem Morgan."

Yeah, well the punch-line to that joke is that the esteemed Mr. Morgan is a bicycle thief, politically correctly described as someone who "took a bicycle that didn't belong to him", better known as STEALING it.

It's all pretty vulgar, that I'll admit. And that was never me, not even back in the bad old teenaged days. I've always been a pretty prudish person, but other than the KKK bit, I say it's probably fair game. Certainly the Morgan bit is.

You say it's black face, I say it's a costume.

Compare and contrast these antics with those of the Gay Lesbian Transgendered community. I have NO DOUBT that community advocates sado-masochism, bondage and discipline and all the role-playing and costuming excesses that go with that territory. Also the theraputic removal and attachment of penises at will.

And yet Animal House offends them. Face it folks this is what we're up against. Those who possess both iron fists and thin skins.