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Originally posted by kermitology+Mar 13 2005, 12:35 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (kermitology @ Mar 13 2005, 12:35 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Thunderball@Mar 13 2005, 01:53 AM
This is very typical of the Gauntlet, and their arrogant disregard for decorum, class and professionalism... they need the book thrown at them and then some. As a member of the Senate, I intend to make sure that happens... and to think, we considered working with the Gauntlet to promote the University... yikes!
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So the Gauntlet being invited to cover this event, sponsored by you in the SU, and they're the ones lacking professionalism? Give me a break.. I can't believe I voted for you. Take some damn responsibility, the most outcry from this is the naked people walking through MacHall, and that is not the fault of the Gauntlet.
Is this city so full of prudes that you can't see a naked woman without being terrified? What are you going to do when you finally get laid, run away crying to your mom about the bad lady with the vagina? Someone tell me exactly what was wrong with the story, it was something going on at the univeristy, and it's newsworthy. Sure the picture is a little brash, but, from what I understand, the photographer was trying NOT to get a money shot.
This woman's argument is utter crap in my opinion. You work as a stripper, you decided to participate in this event AT YOUR SCHOOL, and when people recognize you, you get p*ssed? I could very well be someone in her class, go to the show, see her and say..
"Holy shinguard, that chick is in my philosophy class!" Then I go to class and tell everyone, "See that girl in the back row? She was stripping in MacHall yesterday, you should go check it out!"
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Look, there's such a thing as professionalism... when that Streaker came on Saddledome ice and fell over, did the photo show him sprawled out on the ice with his manhood out to see?? No. If they wanted a picture of the sex show, take a picture of someone who isn't completely nude.
You cannot have a nude person in a publication easily accessible to the public. Its that simple. Imagine if some child grabbed that paper, hell, hoardes of them walk by them everyday, some parent would lose their mind and sue. Its not prudishness, its the way things are done and its that simple. The Gauntlet has been walking a very thin line lately, and they got arrogant with this one.
And as for the SU deciding to "invite" the Gauntlet, I can't believe you'd try to pin that on all the representatives. We all know that any decision like that is the department of the Exec, and no, I wouldn't have approved it, and I have been making that clear to my contemporaries in Senate and in the SU. You don't bring cameras into a strip club, you don't bring cameras into a sex show, that simple. I hope whoever "invited" the Gauntlet to photograph and publish pictures like that is reprimanded too. The SU has also been walking a thin line, and that needs to be dealt with too.