[NU Sports] Flips flops year round!

[cherron604 at aol.com]

This raises a bigger question.
 
I am hopeful that the lacrosse, baseball, softball, etc teams win their individual honors, and are honored by nice pep rallies in Evanston, either now or next year when everybody comes back in the fall.
 
The White House thing is distresssing, however.
 
Partisan politicians have (not surprisingly) discovered that you can invite champions to the White House (or Governor's Mansion, or State Capitol) for a photo-op and some good publicity.
 
The politicians are in a win-win scenario...they look proud, everybody smiles, they look magnanimous, they get good publicity (the events are always heavily reported in the team's local media).
 
The sports champions are faced with a dilemna - give the participants access to the 'honor', or stay away, and risk a backlash.  Our lacrosse players got the worst outcome - they showed up for the honor, and were hit with a backlash anyway, for allegedly not showing the proper respect.
 
In our highly partisan world, will we see some University decline some future White House invitation, to spare their people the unpleasant side effects (note however, that the unpleasantness never hits the politicians hosting the events, just the attendees).
 
It would seem that some other democracies chose wisely when they created a 'ceremonial' head-of-state (for photo ops, bridge openings, congratulating spelling-bee winners), in combination with a 'political' head-of-state (for the rough-and-tumble political world).  Israel, France, the UK and some others come to mind.
 
Which raises a different question - would the Oxford women's cricket team wear flip-flops for an audience at Buckingham Palace ?
 
Chuck Herron   Tech '85
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Roy Lamberton <rstetson at capps-assoc.com>
To: wseliger at aol.com; nwu-sports at tssi.com
Sent: Fri, 19 May 2006 07:27:16 -0400
Subject: RE: [NU Sports] Flips flops year round!


First off, I doubt the Prez, or the White House took any offense from the Women
wearing Flip-Flops last year. GW is used to young ladies of college age and
probably had more than a few of the footware around during visits from his
twins.

Anyway, enuff politics.

The way things are going right now, there are several NU teams who might be
visiting the White House, and quite frankly, I don't care what they wear on
their feet -- I just want them all to get the opportunity to visit.

rsl

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> The 'flip flop' is actually fashionable to wear year round 
> (or was this past winter - they're probably on to the next 
> new thing already).  I was surprised to see lots of current 
> college students wearing 'flip flops' at sporting events I 
> attended at NU this past winter.
>  
> I don't get this, but I've never been accused of being a 
> slave to fashion.
>  
> - Bill
> 
> 
> <SNIP>
> The "flip flop" is currently a fashionable women's shoe 
> choice in the summer 
> time. 
> <SNIP>
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