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

[Constitution Day]

Perhaps they can use Nerf swords.

[ozzymandus]

“Realistic stage swords”??? LOL

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Either that or they'll be re-enacting "Pickett's Charge", only like this:

Sorry, andy58, those fence posts are far too sharp.

[subterfuge]

Oooh, you got served!

Oh no you di-ent!! Word...

[subterfuge]

Thats a man baby!!

(What woman wears a turtleneck?)

[longtermmemmory]

Yale University turning your boys into Girly Men...

Thanks for paying the money.

[PsyOp]

They should show up and do the play with plastic light sabers.

[NinoFan]

This is insane.

[NinoFan]

Did you read the part where she initially didn’t want even FAKE weapons to be used? This isn’t about safety. (That would be bad enough given the fact that these are adults who are putting on a play. They can handle swords just fine.) This is about an idiot who thinks that not showing weapons in a play is going to discourage anyone from killing someone else. It’s a disgusting display of censorship.

[Gator113]

Next: Group hugs 5 times a day. They will each need a special ‘hug rug’ and will be required to face Nevada and then California while they hug.

I sure hope they all went to paper plates and plastic ware.

[libstripper]

Idiocy! Well, there goes Julius Caesar and Hamlet!.....

You could throw in a few others by the Bard: Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Titus Andronicus, Richard III, Henry IV, Henry V, Macbeth, Henry VIII, and King Lear, for example. This woman is a raving, pure nitwit.

[Xenalyte]

Mmmmmm, live steel . . .

(Dear Lord above, PLEASE make me a barbarian again this season!)

[Mogollon]

Isn’t that special!?

[Beckwith]

Betty Trachtenberg - betty.trachtenberg@yale.edu

Forty-two degrees and not a dime’s worth of sense.