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UA President Asks Grads Not to Toss Tortillas (Culturally Insensitive Wacko Police)
Arizona Daily Star ^
| May 9, 2002
| Inger Sandal
Posted on 05/09/2002 6:54:15 AM PDT by codebreaker
The University of Arizona is putting a wrap on tortilla tossing at graduation.
UA president Peter Lykins is urging students not to bring the discs to fling into the air at Saturday's ceremonies because it's a waste of food and culturally insensitve to some people.
Patti Ota, the UA's vice president of executive operations and senior associate to the president, will personally try and talk students out of the tortillas at the door,using food bank boxes to play on their guilt.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: grads; tortillas; ua; wackos
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To: TxBec
Do not attack the Cantinflas!
To: codebreaker
"I smell a very colorful Arizona Freep opportunity here..."I'll bring the totillas. I have a couple of packages in the 'fridge getting a little old on me!
I think throwing corn tortillas is pretty colorful. It's better than throwing your cap and losing it. And the cardboard or whatever is in the cap can put someone's eye out. I don't think a tortilla has ever been blamed for putting an eye out or causing an injury.
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posted on
05/09/2002 10:37:53 AM PDT
by
Slip18
To: codebreaker
I wish the PETA idiots
WOULD something like that in Detroit. The octopi (octopusses?) wouldn't be the only things being scraped off the ice.
Tip of the day: don't even think about messing with Red Wing fans in their own building.
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posted on
05/09/2002 12:00:16 PM PDT
by
SAJ
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
The tough part about the octopus toss is smuggling them into Joe Louis. Tortillas are easy, but to smuggle an octopus, that takes guts.
To: codebreaker
Well this is a school so it will have to be a public strip search. Tortilla tossing a bigger worry than someone wearing thong panties because it's done out in the open. They could put that vice principal from Rancho Bernardo near San Diego in charge of the process.
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posted on
05/09/2002 1:26:41 PM PDT
by
airedale
To: airedale
I can see it now, "Who is wearing thong tortillas?"
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posted on
05/09/2002 2:12:51 PM PDT
by
CdMGuy
To: codebreaker
Instead of throwing tortillas, they should throw something inedible, like rice cakes. Afterwards, any rice cakes that didn't get crushed by being stepped on could be rounded up and recycled to be used as drink coasters for frat party keggers (I know, frat boys don't use coasters). The ones that do get crushed could be recycled by the local Mailboxes Etc., to be used for packing material.
Tortillas are much too versatile a food to be wasted in such a manner.
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posted on
05/10/2002 6:44:58 AM PDT
by
Pablo64
To: discostu
LOL!! What a funny, funny story! :^)
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posted on
05/10/2002 2:17:39 PM PDT
by
Boxsford
To: codebreaker
ha! Shouldn't that read burrito?
89
posted on
05/10/2002 2:20:58 PM PDT
by
Boxsford
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