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Cross-Like T-Shirt Design at Penn State University Sparks Controversy
A blue, cross-like design emblazoned on T-shirts at Penn State University has some critics seeing red.
The shirts — intended to foster school spirit — sport a vertical blue line down the center with the words "Penn State White Out" emblazoned across the chest, forming a design that some say resembles a cross. The back of the shirt depicts the same blue line obscured by the words, "Don't be intimated … It's just me and 110,000 of my friends." Roughly 30,000 of the shirts have been sold.
Penn State says it has received six complaints about the shirt, including one from the Anti-Defamation League's Philadelphia branch, from people who say it connotes a Christian cross. The logo design also has become the focus of controversy in the student newspaper, "The Daily Collegian," which has received several letters to the editor on both sides of the issue.
Michal Berns, a junior majoring in media law and policy, said she refused to buy the $15 shirt because of its religious connotations.
"At first glance, you don't necessarily think that's what it looks like, but when you look at it more, it does look like a cross," Berns told Foxnews.com. "That's the reason I didn't purchase it."
Berns said students can purchase the shirts when they buy season tickets for the university's nationally ranked football program or during the football season at the campus bookstore and other stores. The shirts are typically worn at Penn State's annual "White Out" game, at which a crowd of 100,000 screaming Nittany Lions fans creates a virtual sea of white at Beaver Stadium.
While Berns acknowledged the shirt's single blue stripe resembles the stripe on the team's football helmet, she and others at the university's Hillel Jewish organization plan to show their school pride in other ways.
"There always has to be some sort of separation," said Berns, referring to the state-funded school and religious affiliation. "Me personally, I'm not going to buy the shirts and I know others at [Penn State Hillel] who won't, either."
Bill Mahon, vice president for university relations, said six people have contacted Penn State to voice their objections to the shirt's design.
Full Story: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,569665,00.html
I'm an atheist...but fuck'in A...gimme a break.
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ACLU-esque bullshit. Don't they have hobbies?
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"including one from the Anti-Defamation League's Philadelphia branch"
Suprise, the Jews obviously wouldn't want this.
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"including one from the Anti-Defamation League's Philadelphia branch"
Suprise, the Jews obviously wouldn't want this.
it's your constitution - uphold it
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This is what they're crying over.
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This is what they're crying over.
well maybe if you add to the shirt flames on the cross and put a house in the background with a little black kid crying in the window...
I see a new southpark episode :D
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that's actually a cool t-shirt design. people need to stop whining.
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that's actually a cool t-shirt design. people need to stop whining.
I am not religious in any way. I have not been to church other than funerals and weddings in 15 years.
However, stories like this make me sick. Tolerance needs to work both ways and these anti-defamation people need to STFU.
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I am not religious in any way. I have not been to church other than funerals and weddings in 15 years.
However, stories like this make me sick. Tolerance needs to work both ways and these anti-defamation people need to STFU.
correct. Every campus also has those goth kids, looking all dark and sad, wearing some shirt about how much they don't believe in God or whatever.
I might take the time to adjust the glock in my wishband and perhaps quietly wish one of them will shove me so I can smash his head on the street...
but I would never try to have his lame shirt banned.
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It's unreal that in a country where children go to bed with not enough to eat, people are losing their homes, etc.... that some douches complain about this. Sad.
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It's unreal that in a country where children go to bed with not enough to eat, people are losing their homes, etc.... that some douches complain about this. Sad.
The brain-dead ditz probably has 100k in school loans, can't write a coherent sentence, and majors in art history or something of that nature.
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The brain-dead ditz probably has 100k in school loans, can't write a coherent sentence, and majors in art history or something of that nature.
And her cop husband probably throws her into the walls of their house on a nightly basis.