Sunday, April 30, 2006

Another Wrong Color: Not White this Time

An Arizona controversy:

"In a city aspiring to be defined by its good taste, a new Mexican restaurant, the Pink Taco, is opening with a name that some find offensive. Scottsdale Mayor Mary Manross was so put off by the name, a slang term for vagina, that she asked its owner to change it".

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The name was intended to be humorous and thus attract young people. Apparently the owners are keeping the name so far.




Christmas Comeback

We read:

"A Colorado school district has voted to restore the name of its two-week December holiday to "Christmas break." The Falcon School District 49 school board voted 3-2 earlier this month to make the switch from "winter break"... "We certainly had testimony on both sides, but the preponderance of testimony and e-mails were 10-to-1 in favor of restoring it to Christmas," board member Dave Stark said."

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Marvellous what a bit of democracy does.




Penn State Hoist by their own Petard

The recent censorship of a Jewish art exhibition by the School of Visual Arts at Penn State U was hastily ended when the university president intervened. But they are still in hot water over their dissing of the Hillel organization:

"Hillel sent a letter to university administration this week asking for a formal and public apology, a process to protect underrepresented opinions from silencing, sensitivity training for the School of Visual Arts and an investigation into the actions of the School of Visual Arts the Collegian said."

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Neat to see the same demands being made of Penn State that they have so often demanded of others.