Weapons to go offstage [Yale bans realistic stage swords in response to VT massacre]

Yale Daily News ^ | April 20, 2007 | by Courtney Long, Staff Reporter and Copy Editor

[Ieatfrijoles]

America 2007: Somewhere Between Nanny and Ninny

[napscoordinator]

Thanks for the post, but another FRiend also gave me another example. Post #25.

[CedarDave]

“Calling for an end to violence onstage does not solve the world’s suffering: It merely sweeps it under the rug, turning theater — in the words of this very play — into ‘creamy bon-bons’ instead of ‘solid fare’ for a thinking, feeling audience,” she said. “Here at Yale, sensitivity and political correctness have become censorship in this time of vital need for serious artistic expression.”

A young person (Holdren, class of '08) gets it.

[isrul]

Betty is mentally deficient and should be in a cage where regular folks can poke her with wooden swords for their amusement.

[CedarDave]

Morons are in large supply these days.

LOL! PC run amuck.

[MamaTexan]

The Three Basketeers

The Three Musketelles

[longtermmemmory]

The ivory tower truly is a for refugees from the real world.

These people are one missed meal away from writing a really nasty letter to the New York Times....

[Truth29]

Liberals need electroshock to try and make their neurons fire. What an indescribably stupid decision. I would have rather canceled the play and the actors refuse to work in a joke environment.

[gman992]

Is this like that one episode of Family Guy where Meg is in her school’s production of A Death of A Salesman? Instead of depressing end, everyone just dances around with sparklers? Another WTF moment!

[mutley]

LOL! PC run amuck.

It is truly and seriously, UNBELIEVABLE! I work at a University, and it makes me want to go around and start slapping all my liberal associates. However, I'd probably have to break it down into a two day effort. They are legion.

[lesser_satan]

“Lay on, MacDuff! And damned be he that first cries, “Ouch! quit beating me with that rolled-up newspaper”!”

[Redleg Duke]

When your entire world view is based on liberal rationale, nothing is too stupid to propose.

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

Cho was not unnoticed, no one would take action to protect the campus & get Cho the help he needed.

[nonsporting]

Liberals need electroshock to try and make their neurons fire.

If the V-Tech massacre couldn't cure their ideological blindness, nothing will.

They need to be dispositioned (vt.?) where they can do no further harm.

[rock_lobsta]

Well... ya know, some faggoty little actor may get offended by some artsy-fartsy type laughing at the wrong time and then he’s have to go all Titus Andronicus on his ass...

[the_devils_advocate_666]

That's One Bad Betty...

[ushr435]

Maybe they could substitute swords with walkie-talkies ala Steven Spielberg in “ET.”

[Leisler]

Yale. "Hey, fella! Puth away tha sthword ya big brute!" (snicker)

[Centurion2000]

Cripes, no wonder the muslim world thinks we are cowards and idiots.

[aculeus]

Plonk.

(”Ping” sounds too metallic.)