Rice Thresher
Letter to the editor
September 22, 2000
To the editor:
The Rice vs. Tulsa game was bad enough. to make things worse, the
Marching Owl Band had to tell the most lame, sexist joke I have heard in a
while, involving dumb blondes, strippers and nuns.
I am an Owls fan and I happen to be a woman. From my place at the
stadium, it seemed that 40 percent of the Rice crowd consisted of women --
students, faculty, relatives of the athletes, etc. Making fun of the rival
team or the registrar is a cool thing to do at halftime in a college game.
Offending 40 percent of one's own fan base is another thing altogether.
Nomy Arpaly
Assistant professor
Philosophy Department
Tulsa Game Script
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