InstaPundit is upset about articles like this one heckling UT. Well, we can't exactly heckle UT's football team; THAT would be unsporting. Like clubbing a baby seal.

Yo Rick, read Instapundit again, fool. He isn't upset by this article, he's upset by the University.

TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
PART I - CRIMES
CHAPTER 13 - CIVIL RIGHTS

-HEAD-
Sec. 242. Deprivation of rights under color of law

-STATUTE-
Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation,
or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory,
Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any
rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the
Constitution or laws of the United States, or to different
punishments, pains, or penalties, on account of such person being
an alien, or by reason of his color, or race, than are prescribed
for the punishment of citizens, shall be fined under this title or
imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if bodily injury
results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if
such acts include the use, attempted use, or threatened use of a
dangerous weapon, explosives, or fire, shall be fined under this
title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death
results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if
such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated
sexual abuse, or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or
an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned
for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to
death.

So, John, the University should be punished because they deprived the fraternity members of their rights, simply because they were white?

Uh, no. UT should be punished for depriving the students of their First Amendment rights.

Hey, if Michael Jackson, one of the original Jackson Five, can go around impersonating a white woman, why can't white frat boys do the reverse?

Hysterical, Anne. I hadn't looked at it that way before.

I'm glad I got out of school in the early 90's - I went to a Halloween party as Flava Flav
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Amphitheatre/9427/pesxe.html

(he's that 'sidekick' rapper dude in Public Enemy) one year. Took the clock off the wall in my kitchen and tied it around my neck, bought some gaudy (fake) gold chains, big sunglasses, put on a sweat suit and I was set (oh, I went in blackface too, of course).

Back then, the black guys in my fraternity thought it was funny. I'd probably be in jail if I did that now.

Why would a white person need blackface to impersonate Michael Jackson? An albino would need skin bleaching treatments to get that white, eh.

I was at the Halloween Parade in Manhattan yesterday and saw a girl (in her 20s) wearing a some sort of little military outfit with a swastika on it. Don't think I wasn't extremely disgusted and offended. Heck, I assume she was waiting for her friends to show up in their Ku Klux Klan outfits. Maybe those kids in Tennessee didn't mean to offend. But, I guess they did.

I went to a Halloween party last night as Maxine Waters. Exhausting. A whole night continuously mouthing non-sequiturs.

And if they were offended, so what? The First Amendment isn't designed to prevent anybody from being offended. Exactly the opposite, I would think.

No fan of PC here, particularly the unexamined, extreme, self-righteous kind practiced by University types, but I am wondering if maybe kicking an organization off campus (de-certifying, whatever) is stictly seen legally as an infringement of individual civil rights? Perhaps the right of assembly, but isn't that stretching? Just wondering if this is the best example of college administrator PC (I mean, it's a target-rich environment out there).

Ron, yes. Under modern free speech jurisprudence, it is illegal for the state to deny any routinely-granted general benefit to any person or group based on the expressive content of an action.

You can deny my group ballot certification as a party, nonprofit status, parade permits, the right to adopt-a-highway, or fraternity status on the grounds that members of my group wear facepaint, but only if wearing school colors facepaint, blackface, whiteface, clown makeup, American-flag facepaint, and swastikas are equally treated.

You can deny it on the grounds that members of my group burn cloth in public, but only if burning an Iraqi flag, an American flag, and a T-shirt are equally treated.

But, the moment you react to the *meaning* of the act, and not the physical act itself, you're violating the First Amendment as currently construed.

Many years ago, I dressed as a pregnant nun for Halloween; these days that would be tantamount to a lawsuit, I guess.
But, hey, I'm Baptist. Most Baptists are in disguise ALL the time.
The First Amendment is wise beyond its years....

The University of Tennessee anounced today that it is suspending all fraternities. The reason given by the UT Vice President and Provost, was that several students had complained that the fraternities were impersonating college students.
A spokesman for the fraternities said they would release a statement, after they sobered up from the week end parties.

After reading the garbage on this site, I now know, why we have prisons.

Yes, they're for people who don't know how to use commas.