<p>Well, the prohibition against alcohol spending is already in place. I’m not sure that there are other rules in place already regarding how the money is spent, and the money for this year has already been allocated. I suppose the administration could threaten disciplinary action if the funds are used in this way, but so far as I know, the Simmons house committee wouldn’t be violating any rules already in place by hiring strippers with their house funds.</p>
<p>At any rate, the rules can be circumvented – for example, if one were to buy a large number of paper plates, then return the paper plates and buy an equivalent amount of alcohol, but turn in the receipt for the paper plate purchase, house funds could be used to purchase alcohol by way of paper plates.</p>
<p>So are you saying that it’s okay for students to use school money to hire strippers so long as the money is allocated to the dorms in advance? Seems like a distinction without a difference.</p>
<p>No, I’m saying the dorms already have the money for the year, so I don’t see how the administration can stop this particular event from going forward, at least in a monetary sense. </p>
<p>I happen to personally think the idea of hiring strippers for the dorm is stupid and puerile, but there aren’t specific rules against it. If the administration doesn’t want it to happen in the future, they’ll have to amend the rules as they stand now to make sure that it won’t happen again. I think it’s only fair to abide by the rules, and amend them after the fact if they’re found to be insufficient.</p>
<p>If the school doesn’t want to have its money spent on strippers, all it needs to do is make a “no strippers” rule. How hard is that? Would it take more than few hours to create such a rule? </p>
<p>If it fails to take action then I guess that MIT views hiring strippers as an acceptable way to spend the school’s money. Which is certainly within their rights, but I can’t imagine it will help them very much when the next alumni fund raising drive rolls around.</p>
<p>Ahhh, but what is a stripper vs a performance artist like Annie Sprinkle or a certified ballet that happens to be performed nude which has certainly been done? Or highlights of Hair? In Seattle we probably have several plays a year with some nudity at the legit theater groups. They won’t be able to define it without excluding many legit shows.<br>
It is not worth getting all Falwell about.</p>
<p>Have you seen the latest promo campaign for the Pacific Northwest ballet?
Is it just my imagination or would that photo not seem out of place in the back pages of the Stranger? ( or on Dan Savages wall)</p>
<p>( It is a photo of a young good looking male dancer- barechested- with his tights rolled low on his hips- sorry I don’t know his name)</p>
<p>Seems to me like it would be a more appropriate classroom experience. Something in the classics, really conservative, great books/core curriculum and all, like an ad-lib staging of Petronius.;)</p>
<p>“Opie Opie Opie, if you want to laugh at parental concerns, at least use your spell checker. I personally was aghast when I read the press release on the MIT web page.”</p>
<p>Midmo, </p>
<p>Sorry for the speeeellling error. I guess you were trying to say Opie Opie Opie real fast, then pausing to catch your breath. Or was it Opie, Opie, Opie, (while slowly shaking your head)? </p>
<p>“opie: I’m starting to think you’re not from Mayberry after all.”</p>
<p>There’s a gentlemen’s club on the edge of town, just past the ol’ fishin hole. ( I think it was called Aunt Bee’s) </p>
<p>I do find our outrage over anything sexual, while allowing violence pretty much a free pass odd. </p>
<p>Part of my “sex” talk with my kids was showing them the Friday the 13th series or all the other slasher movies. Why? because everybody knows if you have premarital sex, you will be brutally murdered by some huge guy in a hockey mask. Try that next time you have to have the “talk”. </p>
<p>Side note: I did talk to my S about the MIT thing and he mentioned it had been done at his school too. No big deal. Me? I’m cheering for the smart kids. They deserve to get laid too.</p>
<p>Miss Grammar, the last comma was Opie’s mistake. Mine was omitting the first and second one in my original “spelling lesson” to Opie. I will certainly be more careful about my grammar when correcting others, in the future. Or, perhaps I will just stop correcting others, even in jest, since it just gets me in trouble. (I know, don’t start sentences with conjunctions.)</p>
<p>But on the subject of this thread, as a parent of an MIT hopeful, I find the story distasteful. It is hard to imagine parting with 45K a year so junior can watch strippers. That much we can do here.</p>
<p>Last night was Oktoberfest at D’s college. No professional strippers (I think the students can handle that on their own) but sausages and beer to go with the polka. I mentioned to her dad that it was nice to have “free beer” at a social event (D doesn’t usually drink, but loves all things Germanic, so she was charmed). Dad just stared me down – “FREE!” – at $44,000 you call it FREE? Guess he has a point.</p>
<p>I never said I could spell or even form complete sentences. If my children didn’t look like me, well… I have no idea how smart they became on their own. I have to stop typing now because I’m chewing gum.</p>
I guess you were trying to say Opie Opie Opie real fast, then pausing to catch your breath. Or was it Opie, Opie, Opie, (while slowly shaking your head)?