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Friday, March 28, 2008

Uh oh, NDSU

I don’t really know what to say about this.

FARGO, N.D. - North Dakota State University is investigating complaints about a campus skit in which a white student in blackface portrayed Barack Obama receiving a lap dance.

The same skit, part of a charity fundraiser held at a campus theater, also featured a depiction of cowboys having sex with each other, witnesses told The Forum newspaper, which first reported the backlash Friday.

“We’re trying to find out the right approaches for accountability, but at the same time try to heal wounds that have occurred and allow the campus to move ahead,” Janna Stoskopf, NDSU’s dean of students, told The Associated Press on Friday.

The March 18 skit involving the NDSU Saddle and Sirloin Club was performed at the Mr. NDSU Pageant, which raises money for diabetes research. People who attended it said a pageant contestant from Saddle and Sirloin dressed as a woman from the Internet video “I Got a Crush on Obama” and performed a strip tease for another student who was wearing dark makeup and an afro wig.

In the background, two male students dressed as cowboys simulated anal sex while holding an Obama sign that one student ripped at the conclusion of the 30-second performance, the Forum reported.



I don’t quite understand what the point of the Brokeback boys was supposed to be…

Comments

You mean a Greek charity event might stray into unseemly behavior?  Oh my goodness--I’m about to faint!  Next thing you know, they’ll be telling me that some bars have posters of scantily clad women on the walls!

Bike Bubba on March 28, 2008 at 02:36 pm

BB, this is a lot more than just sorority/frat shenanigans.


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Anna on March 28, 2008 at 03:46 pm
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Anna,
No it doesn’t.  Its just what it was intended to be - Satire - Saturday Night Live uses blackface to portray Obama all the time.  Why is okay there but not here done by a bunch of college kids?  Get over yourself, all this PC baloney is ridiculous.

patriot on March 29, 2008 at 06:54 am

If someone got into certain other’s frat parties, if they were not shot, we just might see a bit more nastyness than satire.  Back in the day, a few people barely got out with their lives when then tried to attend a submarine race watcher’s party in Cleveland.


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Chief RZ on March 29, 2008 at 07:22 am

Anna, it’s certainly worse than most Greek parties, but it is a Greek party nonetheless.  This simply falls in the same category as dousing frat boys in a mixture of feces and peanut butter when they propose to their girlfriends, and chasing them naked down the street.

No, I am not making this up.  While thankfully “Animal House” is not a documentary for all Greek houses, there is more truth there than we’d like to see.

Bike Bubba on March 31, 2008 at 06:53 am
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