Brickbat: Black OUt

Earlier this year,
Arizona State University had its annual blackout football game, in
which students are encouraged to dress in black to support the
team. Some students showed up with their faces painted black as
well. The ASU Black and African Coalition (BAC) said that smacked
of racism and cultural
insensitivity, and the administration recently sent out a letter
asking students not to paint their faces at all, with any color, in
the future. So far, that’s just a request, but the BAC says it
plans to introduce a bill in the student government that would ban
face paint and mandate any student caught using it be required to
attend sensitivity training.