From the Purdue Exponent:
Fashioning a polo shirt that complemented his witty humor, an atheist high school math teacher recounted how he won his tussle with an influential right-wing group.
What? That wasn’t the takeaway point from this article? I guess for Purdue students, it’s important to illustrate that atheists aren’t always running around naked. That misconception may be partially my fault.
Glad Hemant’s talk went well at my alma mater!
PS: Club members report that about twice as many people showed up than the Exponent reported. Boo, student reporting!
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Ryan Coons
January 31, 2011 at 6:49 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I wear polo shirts all the time, so I’m part of the solution. On the contrary, I refuse to button them for any reason, so I am also part of the problem.
Roki_B
January 31, 2011 at 6:57 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
popcollar bro-theist
John Small Berries
January 31, 2011 at 6:58 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
“Fashioning a polo shirt”? Did Hemant actually make an article of clothing during his talk? Or does “fashioning” have some definition equivalent to “wearing” or “sporting” that I wasn’t aware of?
the_Siliconopolitan
January 31, 2011 at 7:59 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Thank you for putting that thought into words for me.
the_Siliconopolitan
January 31, 2011 at 8:00 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Well, at least they’re spending time commenting of the personal appearance of a guy this time.
Cameronbrwn4
January 31, 2011 at 8:13 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
We had more than thirty RSVP’s. Boo student reporting indeed.
Sam Barnett-Cormack
January 31, 2011 at 9:34 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Does the student paper often put a negative spin or misreport on atheist events?
leanne
January 31, 2011 at 10:59 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
polo shirts are for tools!
sunnybook3
January 31, 2011 at 11:13 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I was thinking the same thing…. I’m also wondering exactly how said polo shirt complemented his witty humor. In fact, I’m completely baffled as to why the shirt was important enough to use as a lead-in to the rest of the article, but not important enough to be mentioned again. This may keep me awake tonight!
Bruce Wright
February 1, 2011 at 12:28 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Huh? Does this writer (and their editor) not know that the word “fashioning” means something?
Vanessa
February 1, 2011 at 4:55 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
That’s the Exponent for you…
John Small Berries
February 1, 2011 at 2:44 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
The only thing I’ve been able to come up with is that perhaps the author is a business student immersed in corporate jargon (such as “leveraging” instead of “using”), and therefore believed that “fashioning” was a perfectly reasonable way of saying “appearing fashionable in” or “wearing the fashion of”.
Katherine
February 1, 2011 at 4:48 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
http://www.cafepress.com/+frie… ?
Pepijn Schmitz
February 10, 2011 at 1:40 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
So what did the polo shirt say? Am I missing something? I’m guessing that “fashioning” means that he made a polo shirt with some particular text or design on it, not just that he made his own polo shirt. I don’t see what would be the point about starting an article with that…
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