♦ Students at Indiana University were atwitter on a recent Friday evening. Someone reported seeing a white-robed Klansman with a whip roaming the streets of Bloomington. Warnings were tweeted. One read: “iu students be careful, there’s someone walking around in kkk gear with a whip.” The dangerous man turns out to have been a Dominican friar, Fr. Jude McPeak, who serves as an associate pastor at IU’s St. Paul Catholic Center. His whip? It was the long string of rosary beads dangling from his tunic belt.
♦ Traumatic times at Georgetown. Some buildings were “defaced” with pro-Donald Trump graffiti chalked onto brick walls. The offending messages: “Support Officer Wilson” (referring to the police officer acquitted after shooting and killing Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri), “Trump ’16,” and “Build the Wall.” Ever vigilant, Georgetown’s Office of Student Affairs has “reached out to students who may be affected.” Georgetown policy prohibits anything that might be seen to threaten or offend members of the community. The matter will be taken up at the next Speech and Expression Committee meeting.
