Burnt Orange Report

Uh...

By Jim Dallas

I attended a training session for judges for this weekend's UH high school speech and debate tournament. The professor went off on a tangent (while describing the prose interp. event), noting that we should try to give kids good marks even if they do something blatantly shocking, like using the "crucifix scene" in The Exorcist as their interp piece.

OK, Professor, but I seriously hope that the kids won't be interpreting the Washington Post any time soon; the scary images it might induce will leave scars.

The Washington Post:

DALLAS - The gloves have come off in the tight election race between two Texas congressmen - and every other article of clothing appears to be fair game as well. Democrats on Monday circulated old newspaper clippings of a 1974 college streaking stunt staged by hundreds of students - including then-18-year-old Pete Sessions - at Southwest Texas State University.

The conservative Republican congressman - who wrote a column condemning Janet Jackson's nude display during her 2004 Super Bowl halftime performance - apparently bared his bottom with about 300 others in a stunt that ended with arrests and a clash with police. Newspapers were filled with nude photos and headlines like: "Dudes, Broads, Bare Bods."

Southwest Texas students were apparently trying to break a streaking record set by another university amid a nationwide college streaking craze.

"Congressman Sessions' old school days are long gone," said Sessions' spokesman Chris Homan. "He recognizes it as an immature action of an 18-year-old college freshman."

But the campaign of Democrat Rep. Martin Frost is holding his rival's bare body to the fire.

"Pete Sessions exposed himself to children and strangers," said Frost spokesman Justin Kitsch. "He's exposed himself as a hypocrite as well."

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