Gimme an F! Gimme a U!

True: during a women's basketball game this season I asked an athletic department flack why there weren't any university cheerleaders at the game. Not that I give a shit--and, frankly, our cheerleaders veer into downright chubby territory. Yes, I am being an asshole, but you don't understand: them uniforms don't get any bigger just 'cause the women do.

I was told that the cheerleaders, as well as our dance team, which won a national championship in "hip-hop dance," have the option of attending sporting events because they fought for the right to be treated like any other student organization, not like an appendage of the athletic programs.

Interesting.

Though, really, how much agency do you want to give to women and men--listen up, Mr. President!--in tight uniforms whose "organizational" goals consist of bouncing up and down, acting excited, shouting, and gyrating for a captive audience?