This is complicated by the fact that most of the likely animal prints are predators themselves, no? I mean, zebra, sure, but other than that animal print means mostly tiger or leopard.

(No, it's not actually complicated by that. I'm just being annoying.)

I thought this was the money quote:

"In hindsight and looking at it from a different light, a better decision should have been made,"

but then I saw this:

Among upset Crookston residents was Ileanna Noyes, the sister of Alfonso Rodriguez Jr. and a relative of a sexual assault victim. Rodriguez is on death row after being convicted of kidnapping and killing University of North Dakota student Dru Sjodin in 2003. "I've lived through both sides," Noyes said. "I'm enraged at the mentality of our school district, thinking it's fine to have something like that."

OK!

1: Maybe they're thinking big game hunting, which is apparently very popular in Minnesota?

The problem with Predator and Prey day is that the concept was not taken to its logical extreme. Rather than just wearing animal prints, the girls should have worn full-blown furry suits.

And worn razor-sharp claws, while lurking in ambush. Let's raise the stakes a little here.

Blown by whom?

Maybe they're thinking big game hunting

I'm not sure I like what you're implying about the student body, AWB.

For a moment I thought this was going to be about some innovative way of teaching about the Lotka-Volterra model.

Blown by whom?

From what little I know about furry culture, I assume it would involve a "coalition of the willing."

The first party of the year at my undergraduate institution (which is tiny, so there is only one big party at a time) was called Seducers and Corrupters. The first-years were to wear white and everyone else black. It was gender neutral, I guess! (At some point the dean at the SF campus decided the name was gross, so the students there changed it to Sadducees and Corinthians, but did the same stuff.)

That's confusing. Seducers and Corrupters seem like they're both predators. Seducers as in bright-eyed first years who are just so innocently hot that they invite others to pounce?

There was a controversy when I was at Michigan over a frat who put up posters with the phrase "Freshman Girls! Get 'em while they're skinny!" I was kind of grossed out by that one.

11: I think the "joke" basically was that the school was so tiny that we were extra enthused about the influx of new people. The first-years were the innocents to be seduced, corrupted, and initiated into the louche life of the liberal artiste. (In matter of fact, while some people did the wear white or black thing, it was basically just another party.)

90% of the students at that school are thinking "WTF is the big deal? Adults are so stupid!"

Peace Corps Samoa was like that a bit -- a new batch of volunteers would come in (every six months) and the pre-existing volunteers would circle like vultures.

Crookston High thought it would be a great idea to have a Predator and Prey day, where the boys all dress in camo and the girls all dress in animal print.like this.

Masks, fishnet body stockings, large knives, and dreadlocks. Nice.

("Hey, Billy. I thought you weren't afraid of no sophomore." "Something's out there, Major, and it ain't no sophomore.")

the Lotka-Volterra model

I used that badboy for a science project in HS about logging (predators) and redwoods (prey). Had to do an oral presentation and when I said "redwood data doesn't grow on trees" nobody laughed. In hindsight can perhaps see why.

I hope against reason that there was one quiet bookish girl who can't wait until she can shake that town's dust and spent the day explaining that she was dressed in homage to Borges' "Blue Tigers."

90% of the students at that school are thinking "WTF is the big deal? Adults are so stupid!"

Yup.

I thought "predator" had basically turned into a synonym for "pedophile" in popular usage. Fortunately, apparently not.

The students are also going to blame "Political Correctness" and, 10 years from now, are going to use it as an excuse for voting against their economic interests.

All I wanted to do was to wear my owl suit to school, and now the PC police has ruined it.

And that's the true origin story of Rorschach.

I'd want to go as anthrax, which would likely go ill nowadays. (It's endemic in several big-game ranges.)

I saw this on a fellow MNn's FB, and my reaction was: "Meh, it's crass and sexist, but probably par for the course in Crookston."

Pace Farley Mowat, the girls should have dressed as small rodents, with the boys dressed as wolves. And then the teachers could dress as hunters, who would shoot the wolves.