Is Double Secret Probation Next?

THIS YEAR'S BLUTO BLUTARSKY AND OTTER
The college scene is dying. The atmosphere of learning through experimentation and taking chances is being stifled by snobocrats with no sense of humor and less sense of style. It's one thing for a high-profile group like the Badger Marching Band to be scrutinized and censured for antics befitting, well, college students, but an ultimate frisbee team? Straight from the campus that brought you Animal House? (No kidding, flimed in Eugene just before I got there)You've gotta be kidding me! This is how it all went down, so to speak, in Eugene (well, Corvallis, to be precise).
It seems that the University of Oregon (yes, my beloved Ducks--1984--) field a host of club sports, much as any other university does. I would suspect that Phil Knight has little to do with it, but that's a story for another day. Anyhow, this ultimate frisbee team was ranked #3 in the nation--wait a minute--we RANK club sports now? Pretty soon Congress will be debating a playoff system instead of the BCS of UF. Grr!
On April 11, the Ducks were standing up against the hated Oregon State Beavers in a sectional match. Though the reason is both unclear and unnecessary, several of the OSU players were playing without shirts (they were not sponsored by Nike either, apparently), and the Ducks responded by playing without pants, or shorts, or tights, or underwear, or, well, anything but LONG shirts. There being no contact in ultimate frisbee, there were no safety issues involved, but someone complained nonetheless (probably Niedermeyer), and the team, left dangling for a week over potential punishment, has been finally been suspended from competition. I would be totally aghast as this repression of expression, but it's just another example of how sanitized the college experience has become.
For the uprighteous out there, this was not the first offense by the EGO. The club had already been sanctioned last year for MAKING 'WAY TOO MUCH NOISE AT A PARTY! No word whether or not togas were involved or whether Otis Day and the Nights were playing ("A little bit louder now...a little bit louder now"). As a topper, when being questioned before the student board (puppets, no doubt, of Dean Wormer)who levelled the decision, co-captains Bluto and Otter (pictured) are thought to have said something like "Speeding, drinking and nudity--they're not bad things."
Seriously, folks, this is COLLEGE here. And in Oregon, no less, home to ALL of California's hippie population whose kids named Skly NEVER wear clothes anyway and openminded-bluestatedness! IT'S COLLEGE!
The guys got no love from the administration of the ruling national body (no, NOT Mrs. Dean Wormer) The Ultimate Players Association, located in Boulder, Colorado, where the town motto is "If you have to ask, you can't afford it." The president noted, "You have to wear clothing. It's in the rules." Rules, schmules...IT'S COLLEGE!
So much for the Eugene Gentlemen's Organization and their hopes for a mythical national champioship. It's a travesty of the educational system, and I'm going to take my OU Ducks tire cover off my vehicle tomorrow in protest.
That way, I'll be ready with the marbles for the parade through the streets of Eugene.