Rush Limbaugh talking about your logo

[HartfordHank]

Something about a feminist student complaining the logo encouraging rape culture!

 

[ddminct]

Something about a feminist student complaining the logo encouraging rape culture!

STFU

 

[Carl Spackler]

The internet and the ability to formulate words is a beautiful thing, and an ugly thing. This piece of writing, for a college class should have never made it past the teachers' desk, other than back to the student's hand, with a failing grade, and a DO OVER!

No sweeping this girl's poorly worded, poorly conceptualized piece of writing under the rug now. Hopefully the professor and the university department administrators are smart enough to deal with this properly and publicly, now that it is public.

For the record, I know many hardcore feminist women. I'm married to one. There's nothing more feminine, and to me personally.....attractive, than a true feminist. I like to surround myself with strong people, and my wife is the strongest person I know.

Feminism, from my male perspective, exists because in this country people have been allowed freedoms that didn't exist elsewhere in history, and the world, and that freedom of choice, rightly so, should exist for women as well as men, and women that felt the desire and want to be something other than child bearer's and child rearers, and home makers, were able to explore those opportunities in life. Feminism also exists from my male perspective, to provide a support system and structure to help identify, prevent and remove women from emotional and/or physically abusive relationships. In both of those respects, feminism has done wonderful things to advance those causes.

In my male opinion, and I know of at least one feminist that also agrees, my wife, its when women begin to really extend beyond those two basic concepts, that problem arise. The major one, is trying to work from the thought processes that males and females should exist equally. Equality. Males and females should ahve the same ability to make choices for themselves, but they will never be the same. Men and women are different, the key, and where feminism as a movement is embarrasing to males like me, is that true feminists have found wonderful ways to make sure then when masculine and feminine are put together, that they fit properly, because when it fits well together, it's amazing.

When it comes to advancing the cause of making sure that male/female relationships are healthy and well, men are pretty pathetic in what we've done.

The other major problem, when things get extended, are when the basic concepts of feminism (freedom of choice and avoiding abusive relationships) are used to push an individual agenda other than those things, and that's clearly the issue here.

I'm incredibly sad that this girl feels as unsafe as she does, and I'm incredibly disappointed that she's got a teacher, and a college course program, that has allowed her to make it worse for herself, rather than better.

 

[freescooter]

yeah yeah what else is new?

 

[pj]

I'm incredibly sad that this girl feels as unsafe as she does

Come on. If she felt unsafe she wouldn't feel comfortable slinging vicious accusations at others. She feels extremely safe, so powerful that she can accuse others of tendencies toward rape without fearing any consequence, and expects to obtain sympathy from others for the ludicrous and inane event of feeling threatened, not by a dog, but by an image of a dog.

 

[HuskyNan]

She's survived a rape. Maybe she's a little oversensitive.

http://t.dailycampus.com/uconn_dail...er-attacked-online,517a05f4da27f5d9d0b105eb/2

 

[Jimdish255]

She's survived a rape. Maybe she's a little oversensitive.

http://t.dailycampus.com/uconn_dail...er-attacked-online,517a05f4da27f5d9d0b105eb/2

And maybe Rush is just a big turd who makes a living smearing the sick, poor, handicapped, minorities, young women and anyone else he thinks he can put in their place by encouraging the most vile human instincts among his listeners.

 

[uconnfan68]

And maybe Rush is just a big turd who makes a living smearing the sick, poor, handicapped, minorities, young women and anyone else he thinks he can put in their place by encouraging the most vile human instincts among his listeners.

ditto.

 

[weyuo]

I am having a hard time grasping the concept of mature adults in college looking at a logo and somehow feeling empowered to go out and rape someone. I would hope that by the time a person is accepted to and enrolls in a college they would have matured enough to understand that a logo is just that, a logo and if they haven't matured that far yet then the logo is not the problem. The biggest problem I see now a days is that being responsible for your own actions and being held accountable for those actions is too easily dismissed by environment, upbringing or whatever BS excuse a person or his/her lawyer can come up with.

 

[HuskyNan]

Did any of you actually read Luby's letter?

An Open Letter to UConn President Susan Herbst
April 24, 2013
By Guest Contributor

86
Dear President Susan Herbst,

I write to you today as a UConn student, but more specifically as a UConn woman and feminist. I want to first express my admiration for you as a woman who has made it in a “man’s” world, who has faced the odds and done the seemingly unthinkable; become the first woman president at UConn over the course of its 130-year history. You serve as a shining example that even the most challenging of ceilings can be broken, and you speak to the considerable strides women have made over the last 50 years in academia and the professional world. One of the most vivid memories I have of my admiration for your accomplishments was when Gloria Steinem gave you a standing ovation for your successes, along with a full auditorium of students and faculty, during her speech at the 40 year anniversary of the UConn Women’s Center this past fall. It is on behalf of that standing ovation, my feminist foremothers, and the respect that I feel for your success personally that I write this letter of concern and intervention to you today.

Over the course of the past few weeks, UConn has gradually unveiled its “New University Visual Identity Program” which will make UConn the school’s new “wordmark” with a unified appearance, and will require a change in the Husky Dog logo from its current mascot to a more “powerful and aggressive” looking logo. In your Second State of the University Address, you spoke to the reasoning behind this re-branding and logo change, and these justifications left me overcome by waves of anger and frustration. As a UConn student who is proud of my University’s academics and my future degree, I feel frustrated; as a woman student living at this campus I am outright offended. I am appalled by the selective amnesia these justifications display and angered at the superficiality of this Visual Identity Program.

The updated identity package that will be presented on the 18th, like the wordmark, is intended to show what UConn and our student athletes convey every day: poise, confidence, competitiveness, and the determination to succeed in the classroom and on the field and the court.

The aforementioned was one of the statements made in your address. Here is a timeline of some events that are disturbingly absent from this account of the past year in UConn athletics:

• On June 21st 2012, UConn Men’s basketball becomes the first BCS school team to face a postseason ban based solely on low APR (Academic Progress Rate) scores.
• On October 6th 2012, Lyle McCombs is arrested on charges of second degree breach of peace for a domestic violence dispute in which he was, “yelling, pushing, and spitting at his girlfriend” during an argument outside a residence hall.
• On February 11th 2013, Enosch Wolf is arrested on charges of third degree burglary, first degree criminal trespassing and disorderly conduct when he “refused to leave” a female student’s apartment, “grabbed the hair of the victim and pushed her head” and “knocked the glasses off the victim’s face with his hand.”
• On March 21st 2013, Tyler Olander is arrested for trespassing in a structure or conveyance while on Spring Break in Panama City, Florida.

These are serious marks against both our athletic program and our university as a whole — marks that, other than a decision made by Coach Kevin Ollie to suspend Wolf indefinitely, have gone unaddressed, unmentioned, and unacknowledged by UConn authorities. What does this timeline say when juxtaposed with your justification? It beckons the question, what does UConn do with marks like these? The answer appears to be: we turn them blue and shape them into something new.

Instead of giving these problematic aspects of male athletic peer culture at UConn a second look or a giving the real face of athletics a true makeover, it appears that the focus of your administration is prioritizing the remodeling of the fictional face of the Husky Logo. Instead of communicating a zero tolerance atmosphere for this kind of behavior, increasing or vocalizing support to violence against women prevention efforts on campus in the face of such events, or increasing support to student run programs that seek to work with athletes on issues of violence as well as academic issues, it would appear that your administration is more interested in fostering consumerism and corporatization than education and community. Another example of this shift in priorities can be seen in the current administrations selection of the new logo — a selection made with no involvement from or consultation with the normal, everyday, non-Olympian student body:

Contrary to speculation, the Husky will not appear to be mean, snarling, or capable of frightening small children! Instead he will be rendered as the sleek, beautiful animal a real Husky truly is.

Well President Herbst, the new Husky logo may not be capable of frightening small children, but the face of real life UConn athletics is certainly capable of frightening college women.

It is looking right through you and saying, ‘Do not mess with me.’ This is a streamlined, fighting dog, and I cannot wait for it to be on our uniforms and court.~Geno Auriemma stated about the new logo change.

What terrifies me about the admiration of such traits is that I know what it feels like to have a real life Husky look straight through you and to feel powerless, and to wonder if even the administration cannot “mess with them.” And I know I am not alone. It is on this note that I ask you to hear these words. And whether you hear me or not, I thank you for the ceilings you have shattered that benefit women in academia such as myself. In the words of Audre Lorde, “this letter is in repayment.”

In solidarity,

Carolyn Luby



http://president.uconn.edu/wordmark/

http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect/public/NCAA/Resources/Latest News/2011/February/UConn mens basketball program penalized

 

[Jimmy Serrano]

First time I've read the letter. First time I'm commenting on this. There's nothing to see here. It's a pretty big leap to come to the conclusion that she thinks the new logo encourages rape.

She is dead wrong about one thing though. Wolf's crime was not the only one addressed. In one of the more disgraceful moments of last year, P made McCombs sit for a whole quarter of football.

 

[ZooCougar]

First time I've read the letter. First time I'm commenting on this. There's nothing to see here. It's a pretty big leap to come to the conclusion that she thinks the new logo encourages rape.

She is dead wrong about one thing though. Wolf's crime was not the only one addressed. In one of the more disgraceful moments of last year, P made McCombs sit for a whole quarter of football.

That was so Urban Meyer of Coach P. Add that to the list of embarrassments.

Pretty sure that Pasqualoni's decision was overridden by Warde, and McCombs ended up paying the piper the following week.

 

[johnhuskies95]

Did any of you actually read Luby's letter?

An Open Letter to UConn President Susan Herbst
April 24, 2013
By Guest Contributor

86
Dear President Susan Herbst,

I write to you today as a UConn student, but more specifically as a UConn woman and feminist. I want to first express my admiration for you as a woman who has made it in a “man’s” world, who has faced the odds and done the seemingly unthinkable; become the first woman president at UConn over the course of its 130-year history. You serve as a shining example that even the most challenging of ceilings can be broken, and you speak to the considerable strides women have made over the last 50 years in academia and the professional world. One of the most vivid memories I have of my admiration for your accomplishments was when Gloria Steinem gave you a standing ovation for your successes, along with a full auditorium of students and faculty, during her speech at the 40 year anniversary of the UConn Women’s Center this past fall. It is on behalf of that standing ovation, my feminist foremothers, and the respect that I feel for your success personally that I write this letter of concern and intervention to you today.

Over the course of the past few weeks, UConn has gradually unveiled its “New University Visual Identity Program” which will make UConn the school’s new “wordmark” with a unified appearance, and will require a change in the Husky Dog logo from its current mascot to a more “powerful and aggressive” looking logo. In your Second State of the University Address, you spoke to the reasoning behind this re-branding and logo change, and these justifications left me overcome by waves of anger and frustration. As a UConn student who is proud of my University’s academics and my future degree, I feel frustrated; as a woman student living at this campus I am outright offended. I am appalled by the selective amnesia these justifications display and angered at the superficiality of this Visual Identity Program.

The updated identity package that will be presented on the 18th, like the wordmark, is intended to show what UConn and our student athletes convey every day: poise, confidence, competitiveness, and the determination to succeed in the classroom and on the field and the court.

The aforementioned was one of the statements made in your address. Here is a timeline of some events that are disturbingly absent from this account of the past year in UConn athletics:

• On June 21st 2012, UConn Men’s basketball becomes the first BCS school team to face a postseason ban based solely on low APR (Academic Progress Rate) scores.
• On October 6th 2012, Lyle McCombs is arrested on charges of second degree breach of peace for a domestic violence dispute in which he was, “yelling, pushing, and spitting at his girlfriend” during an argument outside a residence hall.
• On February 11th 2013, Enosch Wolf is arrested on charges of third degree burglary, first degree criminal trespassing and disorderly conduct when he “refused to leave” a female student’s apartment, “grabbed the hair of the victim and pushed her head” and “knocked the glasses off the victim’s face with his hand.”
• On March 21st 2013, Tyler Olander is arrested for trespassing in a structure or conveyance while on Spring Break in Panama City, Florida.

These are serious marks against both our athletic program and our university as a whole — marks that, other than a decision made by Coach Kevin Ollie to suspend Wolf indefinitely, have gone unaddressed, unmentioned, and unacknowledged by UConn authorities. What does this timeline say when juxtaposed with your justification? It beckons the question, what does UConn do with marks like these? The answer appears to be: we turn them blue and shape them into something new.


Instead of giving these problematic aspects of male athletic peer culture at UConn a second look or a giving the real face of athletics a true makeover, it appears that the focus of your administration is prioritizing the remodeling of the fictional face of the Husky Logo. Instead of communicating a zero tolerance atmosphere for this kind of behavior, increasing or vocalizing support to violence against women prevention efforts on campus in the face of such events, or increasing support to student run programs that seek to work with athletes on issues of violence as well as academic issues, it would appear that your administration is more interested in fostering consumerism and corporatization than education and community. Another example of this shift in priorities can be seen in the current administrations selection of the new logo — a selection made with no involvement from or consultation with the normal, everyday, non-Olympian student body:

Contrary to speculation, the Husky will not appear to be mean, snarling, or capable of frightening small children! Instead he will be rendered as the sleek, beautiful animal a real Husky truly is.

Well President Herbst, the new Husky logo may not be capable of frightening small children, but the face of real life UConn athletics is certainly capable of frightening college women.

It is looking right through you and saying, ‘Do not mess with me.’ This is a streamlined, fighting dog, and I cannot wait for it to be on our uniforms and court.~Geno Auriemma stated about the new logo change.

What terrifies me about the admiration of such traits is that I know what it feels like to have a real life Husky look straight through you and to feel powerless, and to wonder if even the administration cannot “mess with them.” And I know I am not alone. It is on this note that I ask you to hear these words. And whether you hear me or not, I thank you for the ceilings you have shattered that benefit women in academia such as myself. In the words of Audre Lorde, “this letter is in repayment.”

In solidarity,

Carolyn Luby



http://president.uconn.edu/wordmark/

http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect/public/NCAA/Resources/Latest News/2011/February/UConn mens basketball program penalized

Equating a change in an athletic logo with a "rape culture" is absolutely absurd. Also, her implication that changing the logo is somehow a tacit approval of what McCombs and Wolf did is ridiculous.

It is abhorrent to even connect those incidents to rape. I'm not at all defending what those guys did, but McCombs was freaking charged with breach of peace, and his girlfriend received a summons as well.

Connecting those incidents as representation of all the male student athletes is quite frankly way out of line, and reprehensible.