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Virginia Fraternity Suspended Over 'Freshman Daughter Drop-Off' Sign
NBC4 Washington ^ | 24 August 2015 | NBC4

Posted on 08/24/2015 4:47:17 PM PDT by COBOL2Java

A national fraternity has suspended its activities at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia amid uproar over sexually suggestive signs posted as parents dropped off their recent high school graduates.

A private home across the street from the university's campus hung banners that read "Freshman daughter drop-off," with an arrow pointing to the front door, "Hope your baby girl is ready for a good time ..." and "Go ahead and drop off Mom too."

Several members of the fraternity Sigma Nu live in the house.

The banners generated outrage on social media and condemnation from university officials and student leaders.

In a statement, Sigma Nu's national organization said any fraternity members found responsible will be held accountable.

Sigma Nu says it condemns what it calls derogatory and demeaning language that was used on the banners.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcwashington.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: education; morons; olddominion; uva; virginia
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To: cincinnati65

A Heh heh heh... You said blowback....


21 posted on 08/24/2015 5:00:21 PM PDT by freebilly
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To: Timber Rattler

When I was in college (1976), My frat brothers and I would watch the Homecoming Parade pass our frat house front porch while we were drinkng beer in our underwear.


22 posted on 08/24/2015 5:00:33 PM PDT by wetgundog ("Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is No Vice" -AuH2O)
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To: cincinnati65
Wonder if a sorority posting the same signs would have gotten as much blowback?
Hmmm. A Sorority posting the *same* signs...


23 posted on 08/24/2015 5:00:54 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'll vote for Jeb when Terri Schiavo endorses him.)
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To: PennsylvaniaMom
Is this a microaggression? Or a macroagression? Or perhaps a “trigger” I get them all confused...

Maybe it's a "dog whistle."

...ducking and running.

24 posted on 08/24/2015 5:02:12 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: COBOL2Java

Was on a small conference call today and one of the participants said many years ago they had a sign in front of their frat house at the start of the fall semester that said that said “PARENTS, SURRENDER YOUR DAUGHTERS...”


25 posted on 08/24/2015 5:04:01 PM PDT by Fury
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To: COBOL2Java

Is that a tree between those two signs or is a guy laying on his back barfing into the air?


26 posted on 08/24/2015 5:07:15 PM PDT by roamer_1
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To: COBOL2Java

Sick little pr*cks


27 posted on 08/24/2015 5:07:34 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: COBOL2Java

How marxist.

if this college has sex week then this decision is hypocritical.


28 posted on 08/24/2015 5:07:52 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: ballearthout

The lady died long before the gentleman.


29 posted on 08/24/2015 5:08:03 PM PDT by wolfman23601
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To: Steely Tom

I think only’the ones who are worried their daughters would take them up on it are raising the stink.


30 posted on 08/24/2015 5:08:37 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: COBOL2Java

How are we to know this is not Bill Clinton’s house?


31 posted on 08/24/2015 5:09:15 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ballearthout

Poor taste, indeed.

I, along with several of my brothers, would take up positions outside the freshman women’s dorms on check-in day and offer to help carry their stuff in as a courtesy.

The young ladies thought we were wonderful, and it got us off on the right foot with their parents, as well.


32 posted on 08/24/2015 5:10:19 PM PDT by Arm_Bears (Biology is biology. Everything else is imagination.)
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To: COBOL2Java

I guess it would have been OK if they were asking for the sons and the dads with rainbow flags waving? lol


33 posted on 08/24/2015 5:10:35 PM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (The last suit you wear has no pockets!)
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To: COBOL2Java

Liberals have lost their ability to judge and discriminate or to discern between good and bad or serious and humorous.


34 posted on 08/24/2015 5:10:50 PM PDT by Iron Munro (We may be paranoid but that doesn't mean they aren't really after us)
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To: Lizavetta

Yeah, somebody joking about molesting my wife and daughter does not elicit a laugh from me. I do feel sorry for them though, because being feral never ends well for anybody. Being a gentleman gets laughed at today, but it is one of the fundamental building blocks of any decent civilization. These kids have been raised on tv and it has warped their humanity.


35 posted on 08/24/2015 5:11:05 PM PDT by ballearthout
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To: DemforBush
If Mom dropped by, those boys would not know what to do :-)

Just ask Otter

36 posted on 08/24/2015 5:11:15 PM PDT by rdcbn ("If what has happened here is not treason, it is its first cousin." Zell Miller)
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To: COBOL2Java

Animal House, picturing Dean Wormer’s wife and the mayor’s daughter. Thank goodness they made that movie back before the PC crowd ruined the country.


37 posted on 08/24/2015 5:11:20 PM PDT by Stevenc131
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To: COBOL2Java

Great. The special snowflakes had a meltdown and now a joke gets blown well out of proportion.

Seriously tell your college sons to stay away from females there.


38 posted on 08/24/2015 5:13:33 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: wolfman23601

I don’t think this is true, but I’m not going to debate it. Either way, the death of both the gentleman and the lady is a tragedy. Now the relationship between the sexes is just a warzone and everybody gets hurt.


39 posted on 08/24/2015 5:14:49 PM PDT by ballearthout
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To: wolfman23601

I graduated from ODU, too - and I’m a woman. When I saw this a few days ago I thought it was hilarious. Having lived on campus several years ago, and, I’ll admit it, having frequented similar “frat houses” - I’m sure these signs just made more freshman women show up out of curiosity. Their goal was achieved. This is harmless college humor.


40 posted on 08/24/2015 5:15:17 PM PDT by same old song
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