-Caveat Lector- THE PROBLEM OF NATIONALITIES IN USA: STUDENT FACES EXPULSION FROM COLLEGE FOR WEARING SCOTTISH ATTIRE American student Jeremy His is facing expulsion from college. His "guilt" is that one day he turned up in a school discotheque wearing wearing a traditional Scottish attire, indispensable detail of which was a knife, or "sgian-dhu." The school board in Holt, in Michigan is now due to decide if Mr. Hix will be expelled for violating the state's zero tolerance law against bringing weapons to school. Mr. Hix (who also plays the bagpipes) said he did not think about the knife as a weapon when he attended the school dance in May. The knife was more than 3in long, according to BBC. Mr. Hix said: "It's part of the formal wear for a Scottish man. "It's literally an item, like a piece of clothing. It doesn't stand out when you look at it. It's sort of natural." He said he had the sgian-dhu tucked into his sock for nearly two hours before a chaperone at the prom noticed it. Mr. Hix was forced to leave the prom and could not attend classes for the rest of the school year. Under Michigan's law, which went into effect six years ago, students must be expelled for 180 days if they bring a weapon to school. Weapons include knives with a blade of 3in or more. It is strange that such a multinational and tolerant, as it seems, country as the USA does not permit its citizens to wear their national regalia. Even in the Soviet Union (dubbed by someone "evil empire"), various ethnic groups had the right to turn up on the streets or other public places wearing their national costumes, including daggers, as was the case with, for example, Caucasians (Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaidjanians, etc.) or Central Asians (Uzbeks, Tajiks, Kazakhs, etc.). http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/07/12/9894.html <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
