College editors to apologize for "Top 10 Holocaust Movies" list

[matcom]

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The editors of the Nassau Weekly will apologize in next week's issue for publishing a list of "Top 10 Holocaust movies I've never seen but would like to," which angered some students.

The list, which was printed in the magazine's Feb. 10 issue under the larger headline "And Now For Something Completely Offensive," was written by the magazine's coeditor-in-chief Jacob Savage '06 and features editor Rob Buerki '06.

In the list, Savage and Buerki — who are both Jewish — altered mainstream movie titles like "Dude, Where's My Car," "A Weekend at Bernie's" and "Meet the Fockers" to "Dude, Where's My Family," "A Week at Bergen-Belsen" and "Exterminate the Fockers."

Associate Dean of Undergraduate Students Hilary Herbold said the list was "undeniably offensive" and that discipline was "not out of the question."

"These kinds of things of things that have appeared in the Nassau Weekly are not ordinarily the kinds of things we discipline," Herbold said. "But we are concerned about making students feel uncomfortable."

The decision to apologize came following a meeting with Associate Dean of Undergraduate Students Thomas Dunne, Savage said.

Dunne could not be reached for comment.

http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2005/02/16/news/12031.shtml

[RubyDuby in GA]

1. But I bet Prince Harry approved

Seriously, I can understand saying something completely stupid like this to someone's face if you're a complete idiot, but this had to go through a process before being put in a newspaper. There was time to mull it over and then pull it.

As Ferris says "I weep for the future"..........

[livinginphotographs]

2. File yet another story in the

"What the fuck were they thinking?" folder.

Jesus, some people really need to think before they act.