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Related: About this forumIowa Senator Introduces Just The Whiniest Bill About The Stanford Band
http://deadspin.com/iowa-senator-introduces-just-the-whiniest-bill-about-th-1756993421The notoriously edgy Stanford marching band performed a skit full of dumb hick stereotypes during halftime of Stanfords 45-16 thwacking of Iowa in the Rose Bowl. Despite the fact that the skit wasnt particularly good, funny, or unexpected, everybody lost their goddamn minds. Iowa fans got mad, Rose Bowl officials got mad, and now a deeply stupid Iowa State Senator has gotten mad.
Senator Mark Chelgren introduced a bill Wednesday that would prohibit collaboration and cooperation between Stanford and the University of Iowa, Iowa State, or Northern Iowa until Stanford apologizes for the bands skit. Here is the relevant text:
The state board of regents shall prohibit any future collaboration or cooperation between the institutions of higher learning governed by the board and Stanford university, excluding sporting events, until Stanford university officials publicly apologize to Iowas citizens and to the university of Iowa for the unsporting behavior of the Leland Stanford junior university marching band.
This might be the smarmiest, wimpiest, pettiest, weakest, most pathetic thing I have ever heard of. Chelgrens feelings were so hurt by the actions of a bunch of dumb 20-year-oldsthat everybody knows and agrees are dumbthat he seeks to prevent Iowas institutions of higher learning from collaborating with one of the best universities in the world. And to top it off, Chelgren intends to punish the students and teachers of Iowa while letting university athletic teams continue to play against Stanford.
Chelgren may be a dumb hick, but unlike the Stanford bands portrayal of the state, not everybody in Iowa is. Happily, the chair of the Iowa Senates Education agrees that weakening the states universities because a thin-skinned man is throwing a tantrum is the stupidest shit hes ever seen. Via the Des Moines Register:
Senator Mark Chelgren introduced a bill Wednesday that would prohibit collaboration and cooperation between Stanford and the University of Iowa, Iowa State, or Northern Iowa until Stanford apologizes for the bands skit. Here is the relevant text:
The state board of regents shall prohibit any future collaboration or cooperation between the institutions of higher learning governed by the board and Stanford university, excluding sporting events, until Stanford university officials publicly apologize to Iowas citizens and to the university of Iowa for the unsporting behavior of the Leland Stanford junior university marching band.
This might be the smarmiest, wimpiest, pettiest, weakest, most pathetic thing I have ever heard of. Chelgrens feelings were so hurt by the actions of a bunch of dumb 20-year-oldsthat everybody knows and agrees are dumbthat he seeks to prevent Iowas institutions of higher learning from collaborating with one of the best universities in the world. And to top it off, Chelgren intends to punish the students and teachers of Iowa while letting university athletic teams continue to play against Stanford.
Chelgren may be a dumb hick, but unlike the Stanford bands portrayal of the state, not everybody in Iowa is. Happily, the chair of the Iowa Senates Education agrees that weakening the states universities because a thin-skinned man is throwing a tantrum is the stupidest shit hes ever seen. Via the Des Moines Register:
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Iowa Senator Introduces Just The Whiniest Bill About The Stanford Band (Original Post)
KamaAina
Feb 2016
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GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)1. ... excluding sporting events, ...
So much stupid, so little time.
hughee99
(16,113 posts)2. If Iowa had won, I bet this wouldn't have happened. n/t
Iggo
(47,554 posts)3. The more pissed off they get, the funnier it is.
Thanks, Iowa.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)4. Is Condem now a state senator?