Posted on 01/31/2005 4:24:15 AM PST by Tank-FL
Virginia Military Institute officials are investigating a 2004 barracks Halloween observance during which cadets dressed as Nazi soldiers, drag queens and a starving African.
Officials at the Lexington college were alerted to the behavior when someone referred them to an Internet message board on which four photographs of the costumed men are posted.
"We've been made aware of the possible involvement of a small number of VMI cadets in various insensitive and inappropriate photographic poses appearing on a Web site unaffiliated with VMI," spokesman Stewart MacInnis said. "VMI does not condone such behavior and this matter is being investigated accordingly. While recognizing cadets have rights as private citizens to express themselves, we are disappointed in their behavior and judgment."
MacInnis said officials are satisfied that the pictures posted at richmond.indymedia.org are from an October event in barracks during which cadets were permitted to dress in costume for the evening. The Web site is operated by the Richmond Independent Media Center and offers a forum for "promoting social and economic justice in the Richmond area," according to its mission statement.
One picture shows three men in their VMI-issued black shirts and gray pants giving the Nazi salute to the camera. Two are wearing homemade swastika armbands. One is wearing a small Hitler-style mustache.
Another picture shows two men dressed in tiaras, wings, lipstick and eye shadow. One is holding a wand, and both are wearing underpants and tank tops that read, "I [heart] a man in uniform."
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Sensitivity Training begins at 0700!
http://www.wdbj7.com/Global/story.asp?S=2871394
let the Prince Harry bashing commence.
First Amendment bump!
The VMI cadets are private citizens, and free to do as they please. Harry on the other hand is a public institution, and must be held to a higher standard.
PUT SOME ICE ON IT!
I think they just walked in on an HDTV version of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."
Hehehe.
Isn't VMI the place where there was a big ruckus a few years ago when they admitted a *female* ?
Uh hello, it's halloween. How are they expected to dress up? As angels?
It's also the same place where they used to say grace before each meal. But that was stopped by the supreme court after a court case brought by a dissenting keydet.
What class are you?
I'm '95
Rah Va Mil!!
"You may be whatever you resolve to be"....As posted in Jackson, arch didn't refer to choosing your halloween costume.
Kids do crazy things, if you let 'em.
I'm class of 90.
My son is there now, class 06
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