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College Students Hang Sexually Explicit Banners & Outrage Campus



Female students at Old Dominion University (ODU) in Norfolk, VA were the recipients of an unwanted, hypersexual welcome back to school this weekend. Students hung banners off the second floor balcony of a private residence near the university that read, "Freshman Daughter Drop Off," "Rowdy and Fun, Hope Your Baby Girl Is Ready For a Good Time..." and "Go Ahead and Drop Mom Off Too..."

Local TV station WAVY-10 obtained a statement from Ellen Nuefeldt, Vice President of Student Engagement and Enrollment Services at the school, that said they had begun working to have the signs taken down as soon as they were made aware of them. "At ODU, we foster a community of respect and dignity and these messages sickened us," Neufeldt's statement read. "They are not representative of our 3,000 faculty and staff, 25,000 students, and our 130,000 alumni. Ours is a community that works actively to promote bystander intervention and takes a stand denouncing violence against women."

John R. Broderick, President of ODU, sent WAVY-10 a copy of an email he sent to all students and faculty addressing offended students, alumni and the campus community. In no uncertain terms it reminds everyone of the school's zero-tolerance policy for sexual harassment. "I said at my State of the University address that there is zero tolerance on this campus for sexual assault and sexual harassment," Broderick writes. "This incident will be reviewed immediately by those on campus empowered to do so. Any student found to have violated the code of conduct will be subject to disciplinary action."

The school also posted a video featuring campus leaders who speak with a unified voice in support of the zero-tolerance policy. Watch it below.

Going from left to right, #1 is over the top, #s 2 and 3 are within the bounds of decency. This is from a dad who sent who sent 2 daughters to college.

#3 may have been drafted by the dad of one of the students in the lodging depicted in the photgraph.

If they had not included #1 and had changed "daughter" to "coed", they would have gotten some publicity, but fewer rebukes.

Hmmm. Wonder if they understand the meaning of "sexually explicit"? I'm trying to find anything sexually explicit in those banners, or any sexual harassment.
Bad taste, maybe. Sexually explicit or harassing, no.

I bet that's Heywood from the Zone. bahahahahahaha

Signs are in poor taste and as an administrator that is not a 1st impression i would want to make. Also. You cant do things like this in todays culture. Now they are an easy target for someone who wants to make an example

That needs to change Solo. The policies Universities put in place these days are outrageous.

I'm sorry, and I'm not one to be so much on the PC side, but this is classless. And if I was checking my daughter in and saw those banners, thinks could have gotten really ugly.

Classless, yes. Demanding discipline, no. If I understand correctly, the signs weren't on campus.

If it was a fraternity, I don't think it matters where the signs were. Otherwise, I agree.

(08-25-2015 12:54 PM)SEA33HAWK Wrote: [ -> ]I'm sorry, and I'm not one to be so much on the PC side, but this is classless. And if I was checking my daughter in and saw those banners, thinks could have gotten really ugly.

This is what I said on our forum. You can have your free speech, boys, but I perceive your signs as a threat to my daughter (and wife) so now I'm going to teach you a lesson. I'm certain, at the very least, I would have stopped the car out of sight, walked up and ripped the signs down. Would probably escalate from there. I fully admit this isn't the appropriate way to handle it but I'm okay with the misdemeanor trespassing charge.

From what little I've read/heard, I don't believe it was a fraternity. From the posted article it states, "Students hung banners off the second floor balcony of a private residence..."

Again, I find the signs completely inappropriate, but they seem to be short of harassment. I wonder if there is anything in the code of conduct about publicly embarrassing the school?

Enough of the choir boy act fellas'. We all went to college(I assume), and were guys in college. This sign is what we all were thinking(although I never thought of mom's in college). There is no "threat" in the banners. And if you aren't realistic enough to accept that your daughters going to college aren't any different than the girls you hooked up with in college, you're an idiot.

Having been there makes me even more protective. I've raised three girls and have had a family member date raped as a teen. So, while it was cute and funny when I was that age, it is no longer humerous to me. Ask the young man on trial today how funny it is to him now.

What do the signs have to do with date rape?

(08-26-2015 03:51 PM)82hawk Wrote: [ -> ]What do the signs have to do with date rape?

Serious? I probably would have asked the same question earlier in my life. I learned a lot about respecting women while serving on a corporate diversity team.

Is it classless? Yes.

Does it insinuate a support of rape culture? No.

It's not the smartest thing that they could have done, but that's college. Lots of dumb things happen there.

As disrespectful as I believe those signs are, there is no link between them and rape or any other sexual assault.

If it weren't for social media and the need to instantly vilify others... These signs would be a non-issue. This is the world we live in.

The media didn't create the term "student salute". I understand the banners were probably all in fun. But there can sometimes be a fine line.

Oh man, a corporate diversity team. That explains it. Thankful I've never been subjected to such foolishness.

I have always been respectful to women. As a business owner, I have never even made an inappropriate comment in 20+ years. But this isn't business, and these kids aren't the boss. These banners remind me of something Don Rickles would have said. Everyone needs to lighten up, especially universities.

Incredibly immature and should be treated as such.Maybe they get to work in the laundry department for a while-washing sheets.

(08-27-2015 09:13 AM)jumpinmullet Wrote: [ -> ]Incredibly immature and should be treated as such.Maybe they get to work in the laundry department for a while-washing sheets.

There's no legal justification for any punishment here. They didn't hang the sign on school property. That'd be like if your kid was renting an apartment and hung a immature sign in his window and the school he was attending made him was dishes for a week in the mess hall. No. No. No. No.

This isn't 1939 Berlin.

You can't just go punishing people for doing things you disagree with if they didn't break a law.