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Obviously in light of the Virginia Tech shootings and responding to the need to "look out for a whole campus of potentially vulnerable undergraduates" a Yale administrator "decided that she didn’t want any weapons used or portrayed during theatrical productions."

From now on, Yale students can only perform Mary Poppins or Wizard of Oz type plays.

Drastic move" Absolutely.

In a comment on InsideHigherEd, one poster wrote:

At "the local high school here (ETHS—Evanston Township High School). Needless to say, the school has a “no guns on campus” policy. The high school theater department was putting on a play in which a police officer appeared, and the student in full police uniform was stopped because his uniform included a holster with a toy pistol when he left the theater to go to the washroom. Aside from suspending the offender, the administration demanded that the play be changed to eliminate the 'gun' and eventually it was."

Apparently, stupidity is not limited to high schools...but can invade our so-called 'elite' universities as well.

Why don't we all just stay on the porch?