Remember how Yale Banned Realistic Looking Stage Weapons? As Bruce Schneier pointed out "Not only does this not make anyone safer, it doesn't even make anyone feel safer."
Now the university has repealed the ban. "Administrators decided Monday afternoon to require that audiences instead be informed of the use of stage weapons before the start of every performance."
Dean of Student Affairs Betty Trachtenberg said "I think people should start thinking about other people rather than trying to feel sorry for themselves and thinking that the administration is trying to thwart their creativity,...They're not using their own intelligence. … We have to think of the people who might be affected by seeing real-life weapons." These must be those theater goers who don't watch TV or see movies or read history or newspapers or watch the news or see Shakespeare.
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