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Should UND Expel Students For Wearing Shirts That Offended Sioux Tribe?

 
 
 
If they are in violation of the UND Code of Conduct, then they should be disciplined in accordance with that Code of Conduct. Otherwise, no, but I would advise they be given a sternly worded talking-to.
 
College is no place for the free expression of ideas!!![/conservoprogressive]
 
It was an off campus party with no affiliation to the University? If yes, then how is it any of the University's business?

Edited to add: They seem to have based it off of a former school mascot, so maybe the university has some relevancy here.
 
KeepTalking said:
If they are in violation of the UND Code of Conduct, then they should be disciplined in accordance with that Code of Conduct. Otherwise, no, but I would advise they be given a sternly worded talking-to.
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The UND is an arm of the state government and gets Fed funding. As such, it should have zero authority to dictate the contents of otherwise legal speech, in this case what jokes students tell, on their own time, off-campus. IF the code of conduct claims such authority, then the code should be changed and the students should sue the University for discrimination.
 
How were the Sioux harmed by this? How was the shirt derogatory? It sounds like it was derogating the wearers as drunkards more than criticizing the Sioux, and the stupid pun... well, that was just embarrassing.

So what's the politically correct rule, no non-reverential ethnic references, ever?
 
If it becomes acceptable for colleges to expel students who do something "offensive," then most colleges would have to part with half of their students.
 
Just so long as they also expel anyone who wears a shirt with anything resembling a drunken leprechaun on St Patrick's Day, it's OK. By "OK", I mean a gross violation of their constitutional rights that the school should get sued over, of course.
 
Speaking of getting siouxper drunk, I wonder where I can get one of those shirts... Seriously, it is a cheeky and quite clever twist on the school mascot. It's a pun. An insensitive one, but those are generally the best type.
 
Social justice warriors, uinte!
 
This has the picture, It is not just an old Fighting Sioux shirt:

http://gawker.com/north-dakota-students-siouxper-drunk-shirts-are-super-1575223043

I think that this is just only a couple of step below having an arab terrorist "suicide bomber" party. However, it was not done on campus, luckily for the students. If this were a party of employees of one single company on there own time, I think that they would have a hard time not being disciplined.

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Expulsion? That's hilarious. He must think Daniel Snyder (owner of the Washington Ethnic Slurs football team) needs to be executed.
 
Would anyone here ever socialize with a person wearing Washington Redskins apparel, especially if they were just making a point about how evil PC is?

How about years after the name of the team is changed?

This is maybe one of the best videos about PC:

 
repoman said:
If this were a party of employees of one single company on there own time, I think that they would have a hard time not being disciplined.
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Whether we agree or disagree, private institutions can censor ideas and mete out punishments for expression.

Government institutions have different standards.
 
Is "Siouxper drunk" really comparable to those?
 
Just in case you don't know, "Drunken Indian" is akin to "Nigger" in North Dakota.

The reaction is worse than the offense in my opinion.
 
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