Frat Gives Tongue to Patriotic Sentiment
Cornell Daily Sun March 10, 2003
A conservative fraternity has called on interested women to show their support for the president's war policy by engaging in "freedom kissing."
"It's time to support the president, and not just with lip service," says Lester Baxter, president of the Cornell chapter of Upsilon Sigma Alpha. "We don't want anything to do with the French. We're only drinking American wines and cutting American cheese."
Members of the fraternity can be seen wearing graphically busy buttons depicting an American flag, a picture of Saddam Hussein with the international "No" symbol, a mouth with a protruding tongue, and the text "Give me a freedom kiss!" The practical success of this campaign is reported to be "mixed".
Lucy Steele of Campus Code Pink scoffed at the campaign: "Gallo wine, domestic cheeses, no French pastry, and no French letters, I suppose. They'll get freedom kisses in their dreams."
> Commence French-kiss-ins against the war at the White House, the
> Pentagon, the Department of Justice, etc.