Community standards

Freshman year, in the carefree days when men were boys and the quality of life in Irish C was maintained by a very active Acquisitions Committee, RA Katie Krenitz asked us to come up with a set of community standards.

We came to a consensus on one standard: Don't be a dick.

There were times when we broke that rule. I think it's pretty safe to say we all did it. I, for example, had a night where I either spit or puked on every single person in the hall. But, for the most part, we did what we could to make amends. And most of us remembered the rule.

At past sporting events, Lewis established himself to be the "topical heclker," once telling a hockey goalie he was as mobile as Terry Schiavo. Distasteful as it may sound, I'll admit it was funny.

Now, Lewis has chosen to equate the Washington Huskies' 56-17 loss to Cal on Saturday to a heartbreaking Getty Images photo of a Hurricane Katrina victim.

I'm not in the business of censorship. You can post whatever you want in this blog. You can be as nice, as mean, as s sincere or as ridiculous as you want. You can try as hard as you want to be funny or shocking or whatever the hell Lewis was going for.

When we lived in Irish, we didn't follow the rules much (except, of course, the "no alchol" rule), and it would violate the spirit of Irish to start imposing rules for this blog.

I only ask that when we're posting, we try to follow the standard we agreed on back in the day.

Don't be a dick.