Higher Education

As reported by the associated press two students from Penn state were pictured dressing up as shooting victims from Virginia Tech. The photographs were posted on Facebook; the students were wearing Virginia Tech shirts with a fake bullet hole and bloodstains part of a Halloween custom. The officials at Penn State responded by sending an apology condemning the actions of the Penn State students. However the students are not going to face any disciplinary action for there conduct.

This is a truly reprehensible act. That being said I agree that no punishment from the schools standpoint is in order. This was a simply act of free speech. Extremely offensive, stupid, and disgraceful speech; but its their right to do so. The School has no grounds on which to act and lets be real in this country if they did; they would be facing a law suit a week later. The fact is you cannot punish some one for being an insensitive moron. Hopefully their peers will simply realize the reality and this will prevent others from following the awful example set by this event.

Sad as this all is, it wont end here. I can assure you that this is probably going to spawn into tolerance and sensitivity classes for every student in every high school and college in America. Rather then pointing out the stupidity of the matter the reaction will be to educate the population on how to be more politically correct. Fact is this is not an issue of not understanding a tragedy; its an issue of two extremely ignorant and stupid kids who think they're being funny. Leave it alone because it is not the first time, nor the last.