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³White Chicks² not coming to VA Tech or Blacksburg
By Rachel DeLauder, Managing Editor of the The Collegiate Times
Published Thursday, June 24, 2004

Following lobbying from Interfraternity Council Advisor Eric Norman and
several campus officials, the new Wayans brothers movie, "White
Chicks,²
will not be shown at the campus¹ Burruss Auditorium, and Virginia
Tech¹s
Foundation has moved to keep the movie out of the New River Valley Mall
11,
which it owns, due to an gift from a local developer. It appears that
any
Hokie wanting to see ³White Chicks² will have to leave the valley.

³This film², says Norman, ³is about the Wayan brothers. both
African-Americans, using make-up and costumes to impersonate white
women.
Our interfraternity council has repeatedly publicized our efforts to
keep
fraternities from hosting ghetto parties and minstrel shows, and
anything
where members might wear blackface make-up and clothes. We cannot
honestly
enforce such policies, when African-Americans are allowed to wear
whiteface
make-up.²

³Last fall,² according to IFC president Nic Temple, who¹s also
president of
Pi Kappa Alpha, ³our Judiciary Council put a chapter on social
probation for
an incident where at least two members in blackface were at an official
chapter party.² He supports the effort to ban ³White Chicks² from the
city.
³How can we enforce our anti-blackface policy, when the campus theatre
is
showing a whiteface flick.²

³We¹re not against diversity, and our sponsoring a fall performance of
the
Shangri-La Acrobats, a Chinese group, proves this,² said IFC Vice
President
Pat Colleran, a Phi Kappa Sigma.

The nearest theatre showing the film is unknown.