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Apr

11

Penn Adds Responsibility Pledges To Food Fight

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There’s an annual tradition at Penn where juniors “officially” become seniors after wearing red shirts, biting pieces off of styrofoam hats and carrying around canes. In recent years, the juniors were being pelted by shaving cream, eggs, ketchup and other condiments.

Much pointless controversy ensued, and Penn threatened to shut down the tradition, Hey Day, if people didn’t straighten up and fly right. Well, we apparently now have closure! Penn has fixed the event by making sure everyone can have fun in a safe, university-approved manner:

After lengthy negotiations this year, administrators and students agreed in February to give seniors “safe and celebratory items” to throw — likely marshmallows and streamers — and to ask them to sign “responsibility pledges” to ensure the festivities don’t get out of hand.

Penn’s then going to surround the campus in bubble wrap, just in case.

Marshmallow compromise saves Penn ritual [AP/Yahoo!]
Editor’s note: No, I couldn’t top this headline.
 
dmac | 2:51 PM | 2 Comments
Food, Penn, Responsibility Pledges
 
  1. JeffB Says: Apr 11 4:56 PM

    Marshmallows are no guarantee of safety - the student section in Camp-Randall Stadium at Wisconsin used to load them with pennies and throw them at visiting players, coaches, fans. It got pretty ugly for a while.

  2. Citizen Mom Says: Apr 11 8:06 PM

    And see, at Penn STATE you had a mob of guys who would streak around campus every year during finals and chant “Tits on glass!” in front of the women’s dorms until someone gave them a show.

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