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An email was sent to all the college JCRC chairs in light of the posters put up around campus to promote the event.
In the email, Academic and Welfare Officer Charlie Leyland reminded the JCRC chairs of their "duty of care to all college students", highlighting that over 780 undergraduates have dependants and that York is a "child-friendly" campus.
She continued: "Inappropriate material plastered around colleges is an abuse of your power, tasteless, and incredibly inconsiderate."
In response, Vanbrugh chair Dani Fill admitted: "When designing the poster we didn't think about children on campus because we are at university at the end of the day."
Fill went on the defend the event, saying: "P.O.R.N.O. may seem to suggest you have to dress in barely anything but it is a matter of choice. You can wear barely anything to any event, you are not forced to just because of the theme."
However Fill has apologised for any inconveniences the posters may have caused. Charlie Leyland could not be contacted for any further comments.
I think people should be able do decide to print whatever they want.
We are part of a grown up society and to have the possibility of some people censoring us based on some moral authority that the UK government does not even have sounds crazy.
"I think people should be able do decide to print whatever they want."
As in publish WHATEVER they want on campus? Like Nazi propaganda? Like hardcore fetish porno? Like homophobic material?
My point is - I am sure you do realise that there are welfare concerns. We do have the responsibility not to offend people. And with children on campus, as well as many people from sensitive cultural backgrounds, printing nudity is not really appropriate.
#1, that's just silly. You can't let people put whatever they want on posters. There are laws against a lot of stuff anyway.
I agree with Charlie - you have to remember that there are children on campus all the time, young teenagers go through the uni on the way to school and that a lot of us don't want to see tasteless posters anyway.
On the other hand, I haven't seen any P.O.R.N.O. posters that I thought were that bad, though I've only seen one.
The posters were demeaning. They were demeaning last year but at least they demeaned men and women equally. The sex doll used to advertise the event was pretty disgusting too.
In a university with such a high proportion of international students, there really should have been more thought put into the event.
Not all international students come from culturally sensitive backgrounds, but point taken. Let us refrain from generalisations though.
if you would promote promote a Nazi event I don't think that you would get too many people showing up. The point is that loads of people that don't view this issue in the same light as you did go, did not have a problem with it, in fact, demand was usually large.
Who are you to say that they were wrong in enjoying the idea?
comment deleted by the author #1, that all depends who has given the money for the printing and who owns the land on which they are posted. There are other stakeholders here aside from the JCRC in question.
I've not seen any of these posters, but generally not many town councils or shop owners would allow a porno poster in the town centre or in a shop window. It's still not appropriate.
As long as the posters aren't obscene, i don't see a problem with advertising this particular event on campus though. The feminist argument is really dumb though. Womens officers are allowed to campaign and that's sexist.
As long as there's no sex or sextoys or nudity or anything else the public could deem obscene, i think postering shouldnt cause much trouble.
Anyone know how the event actually went? Sold out? Money-maker for the college? Good fun?
Amazing night had by all!
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comment deleted by the author #9 - are LGBT groups anti-heterosexual? are Racial Equality groups racist?
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