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Tennessee House 'condemns' student organizers of UT's 'Sex Week'
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2014/feb/24/tenn-house-condemns-student-organizers-of-uts/?CID=happeningnowNASHVILLE — The state House of Representatives voted 69-17 Monday night to approve a resolution that “condemns the organizers” of Sex Week at the University of Tennessee — apparently a pair of students who co-founded the inaugural event on the Knoxville campus last year.
The resolution, sponsored by Rep. Richard Floyd, R-Chattanooga, also “expresses (the House’s) displeasure with the University for permitting ‘Sex week’ to be held” for a second consecutive year. Set for March 2-7, Sex Week is a student-funded, student planned week of events, lectures and forums ranging from sexual assault prevention, abstinence and long-term commitment to an aphrodisiac cooking class and a condom scavenger hunt.
Floyd’s resolution originally condemned “the administration of the University of Tennessee,” but he submitted an amendment at the start of the debate changing its focus to “organizers” of the event. But Republicans on the Senate Education Committee last week grilled UT President Joe DiPietro and UT Knoxville Chancellor Jimmy Cheek on the matter and said they are going to call them back for more discussion later.
Under questioning, Floyd initially denied that the resolution is condemning students but then admitted, “If the students are organizing it, we’re condemning them. At least I am.”
The resolution, sponsored by Rep. Richard Floyd, R-Chattanooga, also “expresses (the House’s) displeasure with the University for permitting ‘Sex week’ to be held” for a second consecutive year. Set for March 2-7, Sex Week is a student-funded, student planned week of events, lectures and forums ranging from sexual assault prevention, abstinence and long-term commitment to an aphrodisiac cooking class and a condom scavenger hunt.
Floyd’s resolution originally condemned “the administration of the University of Tennessee,” but he submitted an amendment at the start of the debate changing its focus to “organizers” of the event. But Republicans on the Senate Education Committee last week grilled UT President Joe DiPietro and UT Knoxville Chancellor Jimmy Cheek on the matter and said they are going to call them back for more discussion later.
Under questioning, Floyd initially denied that the resolution is condemning students but then admitted, “If the students are organizing it, we’re condemning them. At least I am.”
On one hand, I am irritated that TN politicians have nothing better to do than officially condemn others in the name of purity. On the the other hand, I am amused that the number of politicians who voted to finger-wag was 69.
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