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This cartoon ran in a Saturday
(.yes, Saturday) issue of the Daily -
back in the good ol' days when the
paper cost a dime. It was accompa-
nied by a story about a mischevious
high school lad who, to amuse his
buddies on the school bus, flipped off
a state trooper. Well, the state trooper,
apparently pretty miffed, hauled the
prankster to the Connecticut Court of
Common Pleas. After much debate,
the court unanimously ruled that the
"digitus impudicus" - the politically
correct Latin term for the bird - was
not an obscenity, and that the boy
could not legally be punished for his
folly. Apparently, for something to be
considered an obscenity, ithas to arouse
sexual desire. Now, isn't this just go-
ing a little too far? John McEnroe
talked more with finger gestures than
with actual words and everyone ad-
mired him for it. But a silly schoolboy
with a spastic middle finger sends a
whole town into a tizzy shouting "ob-
scenity!" We say a big "fuck you!" to
that.
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EDITORS CONTRIBUTORS,
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Cal 763-0379 for information.
Nima Hodaei
Melissa R. Bernardo
ARTS EDITORS
Jessie Halladay
Aaron Hamburger
Megan Abbott, Andrew Cahn, Jason Carroll,
Rich Choi, Steve Culver, Geoff Earle, Steven
Knowlton, Kristen Knudsen, Alison Levy, Jenny
McKee, Sharon Musher, John R. Rybock, Liz
Shaw, Jordan Stancil, Scott Sterling, Sarah
Weidman, Kirk Wetters, Michael John Wilson,
Josh Worth
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