- Sat Dec 19, 2015 6:49 am
#65884
Many years ago Al Capp (the cartoonist who drew the Lil' Abner strip) used a fictional student protest group composed of filthy, flea ridden hippies to illustrate the absurdity of the '60s in some of his other that Lil' Abner strips (You may remember another, Fearless Fosdick, the accident prone police detective who frequently shot himself and dozens of innocent bystanders. His solution to nearly any situation was to pull his gun and open fire).
The acronym for Capp's student protest group was, S.W.I.N.E. Or, Students Wildly Indignant about Nearly Everything.
The past has caught up with us and we are living it now.
From the New York Post:
Fosdick isn't too far off the mark either.
The acronym for Capp's student protest group was, S.W.I.N.E. Or, Students Wildly Indignant about Nearly Everything.
The past has caught up with us and we are living it now.
From the New York Post:
Students at an ultra-liberal Ohio college are in an uproar over the fried chicken, sushi and Vietnamese sandwiches served in the school cafeterias, complaining the dishes are “insensitive” and “culturally inappropriate.”This is the end of the world as we know it.
Gastronomically correct students at Oberlin College — alma mater of Lena Dunham — are filling the school newspaper with complaints and demanding meetings with campus dining officials and even the college president.
General Tso’s chicken was made with steamed chicken instead of fried — which is not authentically Chinese, and simply “weird,” one student bellyached in the Oberlin Review.
Others were up in arms over banh mi Vietnamese sandwiches served with coleslaw instead of pickled vegetables, and on ciabatta bread, rather than the traditional French baguette.
“It was ridiculous,” gripes Diep Nguyen, a freshman who is a Vietnam native.
Worse, the sushi rice was undercooked in a way that was, according to one student, “disrespectful” of her culture. Tomoyo Joshi, a junior from Japan, was highly offended by this flagrant violation of her rice. “I f people not from that heritage take food, modify it and serve it as ‘authentic,’ it is appropriative,” she said.
Oberlin’s black student union joined in the fray this month by staging a protest outside Afrikan Heritage House, an on-campus dorm.
The cafeteria there wasn’t serving enough vegan and vegetarian options and had failed to make fried chicken a permanent feature on the Sunday night menu, the school newspaper reported.
Those students started a petition that also recommends the reduction of cream used in dishes, because “black American food doesn’t have much cream in it,” according to the Review.
The Nevada-based Universal Society of Hinduism joined the food fight last week after students discovered that the traditional Indian dish, tandoori, contained beef.
“Consuming beef was considered sacrilegious among Hindus,” blasted society president Rajan Zed, the Chronical-Telegram reported.
Campus dietitian Michele Gross told the Review this week the first meeting between college officials and dyspeptic students went well, and changes are being implemented to address all concerns.
Fosdick isn't too far off the mark either.
- By johnforbes