Ring-tum Phi Articles Recounting the 2000 Mock Con "I-Da-Ho" T-shirt catastrophe (with picture)

Ring-tum Phi Articles Recounting the 2000 Mock Con "I-Da-Ho" T-shirt catastrophe (with picture)

Black Student Experience
Black Female Experience

The highlighted articles detail Washington and Lee's campus climate after the 2000 Mock Convention. The Idaho Delegation voted to create t-shirts with the phrase "I-Da-Ho" across the chest, and below it, a provocative and grotesque drawing of a black woman (pictured). Students show every emotion from outrage to annoyance in these articles. While some students believed that the image was offensive and degrading, others felt like it was a joke everyone was taking too seriously. Ultimately, the students involved were punished, and the faculty member who created the design was fired.

Special Collections at Washington and Lee University

https://repository.wlu.edu/handle/11021/31725

https://repository.wlu.edu/handle/11021/31726

Ring Tum Phi

March 13-20, 2000

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