Are T-shirts for the big game 'undignified'?

Student-created t-shirts for the 'Tommie-Johnnie' game range from witty to disrespectful, St. Thomas official says. What do you think?

October 1, 2011 at 1:50PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Each year, the St. Paul school struggles with how to handle shirts created for the rivalry between St. Thomas and St. John's, a TommieMedia article says. As the vice president of student affairs put it:

The design changes each year. Judging from a scan of Facebook, students order a shirt by posting the size they want on the wall of a Facebook group dedicated to the shirts. The photo above came from a group called "OFFICIAL 2011 Tommie/Johnnie T-Shirt."

Students quoted in the article had mixed opinions about the shirts. A junior said:

Last year, the school offered students a trade: The rogue T-shirt for an appropriate, university one. This year, the article says, the school won't. Instead, officials could turn students away, or ask them to turn the shirts inside out.

What do you think of the shirts? How should and shouldn't colleges and universities handle student-created paraphernalia at sporting events?

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