The volleyball team will exist for the 2010-11 academic year, District Judge Stefan Underhill ordered.

Underhill ordered the university to issue a compliance plan within 60 days, and “that compliance plan shall provide for the continuation of the women’s volleyball team during the 2010-11 season.”

“Competitive cheer may, some time in the future, qualify as a sport under Title IX; today, however, the activity is still too underdeveloped and disorganized to be treated as offering genuine varsity athletic participation opportunities for students,” Underhill said.

Despite an increase in the number and proportion of competitive cheer competitions, as well as a the creation of a National Competitive Stunts and Tumbling Association (NCSTA) championship, Underhill said he was “not convinced” that competitive cheer can be included in Title IX statistics.

The ruling is in agreement with Jeff Webb, CEO of cheerleading organization Varsity Spirit, who testified during the case. Webb said competitive cheering is as much a sport as chess, the Associated Press reported in an article from ESPN.

“The University naturally is disappointed that the court has disallowed competitive cheer as a varsity sport,” said Lynn Bushnell, Quinnipiac’s vice president for public affairs. “We will continue to press for competitive cheer to become an officially recognized varsity sport in the future.”

Bushnell added that Quinnipiac “intends to add women’s rugby” as a varsity sport for the 2011-12 academic year.

Additionally, Underhill took issue with Quinnipiac varsity roster numbers. He pointed in particular to the fact that certain athletes were counted three times for cross-country, indoor track, and outdoor track.

“The University is still continuing to deflate the size of its men’s rosters and inflate the size of its women’s rosters,” Underhill said.

- Read about how the volleyball team battled for an injunction, and a chance to play their full 2009-10 season, from September of 2009

Read his full decision here, and stay with The Chronicle on this breaking news story.

Volleyball Ruling

A Year in Pictures

To see a recording of the ceremony, click here.

Also, check out the full text of Nye’s commencement speech below.

QUOTABLE:

President John Lahey to Class of 2010: “What can I say, you’re simply the best.”

Lahey: “Remember the advice of Winston Churchill…Never give up, never give up.”

Bill Nye: “We can’t just do less. We have to find ways to do more with less. That’s the key to our–your future.”

Nye: “Everyone you ever meet knows something that you don’t.”

Nye: “Vote. You have to vote. If people don’t vote, the least they can do for the rest of us is shut up.”

Graduate Shana Bennett (former BSU president): “Hold firmly to that flame within. Never be fearful of the power that rests within you.”

Nye’s Commencement Speech:

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“I go tanning because it makes me feel good,” Boresky, a Quinnipiac sophomore, said.  “Most people think I like to look tan, but the main reason I go is because it gives me a little high that nothing else does.”

This beauty, though, carries a price beyond the dollar sign.

“Tanorexia,” “fake and bake,” and even “oompa loompa” are several terms used to describe the tanning contagion that influences many Quinnipiac University students. Since 1980, the frequency of melanoma in young women has increased 50 percent, according to www.skincancer.org, a national skin cancer website.

“Some of the girls and guys completely overdo it,” sophomore Krista Balzofiore said. “It gets to the point where it looks unnatural and almost unhealthy.”

A $5 billion industry, tanning salons are multiplying throughout the U.S. Many young women are now self-proclaimed tanning addicts. Though the health risks are well-publicized, many can’t resist the lure of tanning beds.

In addition to the toll on health, salon goers’ pocketbooks will be soon be taxed.

President Obama’s approved healthcare bill will burn tanning fanatics and salon owners. Effective July 1, indoor tanning salons must charge customers a 10 percent tax for their servicrs. The tax will produce an estimated $2.7 billion over 10 years.

Doctors and industry financers fought the proposed tax on Botox, or “Bo-Tax.” The U.S. Senate traded the 5 percent tax on cosmetic procedures for one larger tax on tanning services in December.

“The tanning tax will decrease the number of teens who tan because teenage customers don’t want to pay,” Shannon Rosenberg, an employee at Mediterranean Tanning Salon in West Caldwell, N.J., said. “We might lose younger customers since we just raised prices on our tanning beds.”

Coincidentally, Rosenberg has noticed an increase in business during the spring and summer months, which is when the tax becomes effective.

“It’s a part of people’s daily routines. They wake up, go to the gym, go tanning, then do their laundry,” sophomore Nicole DellaValle said.

Mediterranean Tanning Salon offers employees free tanning and 50 percent off of all store products, a nice perk for Rosenberg who tans three to four days per week.

“My main concern is skin cancer, wrinkles, and sun spots,” Rosenberg said. “I take the proper precautions though. I don’t burn myself and I use creams.”

Those who use tanning beds more than once a month have a 50 percent higher chance of developing melanoma, according to www.cancer.gov, the National Cancer Institute website. Although anyone exposed to UVA and UVB rays risks skin cancer, people with fair skin, light hair, and blue or green eyes are most susceptible, as are people with a family history of skin cancer.

Melanoma is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer in women ages 20 to 30, and 71 percent of tanning salon patrons are women ages 16 to 29, according to the American Cancer Society website.

“My mother has pre-cancerous cells associated with sun exposure,” Boresky said. “I make sure I use a moisturizer on my face that has SPF 20 before I tan. I know that it’s not enough and I am risking my health, but it’s a risk I’m willing to take.”

Contrary to popular belief, sunscreens, tanning oils and creams won’t prevent skin cancer.  SPF (sun protection factor) only protects against UVB rays, not UVA rays. Most dermatologists won’t recommend anything below SPF 15. Many sunscreens quickly break down in the sun and lose effectiveness.

UV radiation causes short-term effects such as wrinkles, sun spots, burns, and scarring. Long-term effects include cataracts, edema, vascular system damage and increased skin damage, according to a variety of sources published in academic health journals.

“Skin is very important in that it protects the rest of our body from the outside world, helps to regulate our temperature and allows us to have a sense of touch,” said registered nurse Linda Medrzychowski from Voluntown, Conn. “Skin damage, whether from the sun or from tanning, is cumulative.”

Located in Hamden, Conn., Tommy’s Tanning Salon supplies several QU students with their tanning fix. Most tanning salons offer four levels of tanning beds. Higher levels mean more UV rays and a quicker, darker tan. Level one consists of 120 watt lamps while level four features 580 watt lamps. The monthly cost for level one is $24.99 in comparison to $79.99 a month at level four.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires tanning salons to label every UV and sunlamp product with warning statements. Since the healthcare bill passed, the FDA is considering placing stronger warnings and restrictions on tanning beds.

While tanning salons must list possible physical side effects, there aren’t any warnings for psychological addiction.

“Tanning and/or melatonin is one therapy for Seasonal Affective Disorder, or seasonal depression,” Professor of Biology Michael Vieth said. “Melatonin interacts directly with the serotonin receptors in the brain, and most likely interacts with the reward pathway.

Tanning is used as a way to prolong the positive side effects of increased melatonin. But, add in the addictive personality, and we have issues.”

Tanning ranks No. 4 on the list of top 10 modern addictions, according to www.toptenz.net, a pop culture website. Tanorexia refers to a mental disease, similar to anorexia, when a person believes they are never tan enough. Addicts fear paleness or a fading tan. This obsession has spawned a number of online “tanorexics anonymous” self-help groups.

“People go tanning to look skinnier, that’s why I go,” Rosenberg said. “If I start to lose color, I freak out.”

Although there is no official 12-step rehabilitation program for tanners, simple alternatives such as spray tans and sunless tanning lotions provide the same results. Tanning therapies like melatonin pills and interventions can help decrease addiction.

A study at Wake Forest University in North Carolina revealed that “tanorexics” experience a high, much like drug addicts. UV rays produce endorphins that cause euphoric feelings. The study observed eight people who tanned frequently and eight people who tanned less than 12 times per year. All participants were given a drug to block endorphin production while using non-UV tanning beds. The frequent tanners developed withdrawal symptoms much like drug addicts.

“I do not know that we can detox a tanning addict,” Vieth said. “Just like smokers quitting after cancer, it may just take some health issue (cancer, vision issues, hair loss, sterility) to finally cause an addict to want to quit.”

With the advent of new technology and the Internet, things become more and more customized for whatever niche people may be searching for.  The latest trend on the Web is the explosion of hyper-local and location based news and services.

Social networks like Yelp, Gowalla and Brightkite allow you to broadcast to your friends and followers where you are and what you’re doing.

“We are already changing the playing field in terms of how people share news, how brands offer promotions and how social media marketers direct campaigns,” Katie Wagner, public relations and marketing consultant at Brightkite, said.  “We work with national brands to offer our users amazing local deals based on where they’ve checked in, their interests and even the temperature outside.”

Mobile technology is making it easier and easier for people to check in, check out and read up on their favorite local eateries and shops.  That’s what Yelp is trying to help.

Brightkite is a social network that allows people to check in to different locations across the globe.  You can see who has been there before, check out tips and send out a mass text to your friends.  This ability allows Brightkite to “alert users to traffic, flight delays and other important local happenings,” according to Wagner.

Image credit: Yelp

“When more users are aware of Yelp and engaging with each other, it enriches the experience for everyone involved,” Yelp Director of East Coast Marketing Kevin Lee said. “For contributors to the site, this means more eyes are reading the great content that they’re putting out into space, and hopefully they’re being recognized by others in the community for taking the time to share their experience with the wider public.

On Yelp, users add and review businesses that they’ve visited or eaten at.

“It goes without saying that casual visitors to the site glean valuable information about reviewed businesses to help them make decisions on how to spend their hard-earned income,” Lee said.

New York City-based blog Neighborhoodr is taking a similar approach.

Hyper-local news is also booming.  Instead of reading a newspaper with news from around your state or area, now you can turn to websites that specialize in what is going on around your area only.

Anthony De Rosa, 34, and co-founder of Neighborhoodr, a user-submitted New York City news blog is taking a grassroots approach.

“We created Neighborhoodr to be an ecosystem that would have a built in community that could always tend to the site through crowd sourcing content via the massive Tumblr community,” De Rosa said. “We see tons and tons of content in our Tumblr stream relevant to even the most far off neighborhoods in NYC and bring it to the surface. Our platform is unique, nobody else uses Tumblr on the scale we do for Neighborhoodr content.”

De Rosa thinks the hyper-local news will be the wave of the future because of its personalization.

“They get very relevant information that is important to them,” De Rosa said. “More likely than not cannot get anywhere else, directly from people who also live in their neighborhood. It’s not some editor at a newspaper who doesn’t live there telling them how it is.”

“User-submitted content is the future of content,” De Rosa said. “We have editors at each neighborhood that comb through submissions to bring the most relevant user submissions to the surface to share. The top down model is the future. Having one person tell everyone about a neighborhood is a silly concept. It’s too myopic, too narrow a point of view and doesn’t truly give a full picture of what is going on. We give the entire neighborhood a chance to speak for itself.

“Our model is unique and tough to replicate, we have a vast network to draw content from, and we provide a wide variety of points of view from people direct from neighborhood residents, not newspaper editors,” he said.

Instead of having users contribute the news, AOL owned Patch.com is hiring journalists to cover very specific beat – a town.

On Patch, reporters cover everything about one town.  From school board meetings to local food joints to high school sports, the town is canvassed by one main reporter and a few freelancers.

Jennifer Connic, a 33-year-old graduate of the Quinnipiac University graduate journalism program, covers the Millburn-Short Hills, N.J., beat for Patch.com.

“I don’t know if it’s so much personalized news as its hometown, local news,” Connic said. “We tell people what’s going on in their towns and in their neighborhoods and what’s happening right now. They can’t get that many other places. When there’s some big event in town, people come looking at Millburn-Short Hills Patch. Whether it’s a fire or an important school budget vote, people are here reading to find out what’s happening now in their town.”

Image of Connic's Patch website

Connic was one of the first reporters who joined Patch when they launched in 2009.

“Nearly two years ago the Patch people approached me because of my experience in online local news, and I started there before anyone even knew what Patch was and became one of the first editors,” Connic said. “I was drawn to this because it’s where my experience is and what I enjoy to do. There’s a lot to love about covering local news.

“I quibble with the term ‘hyper-local’ because what we do is no different than what local, community journalists have been doing for a long time,” Connic said. “It may be in a different package online, but the journalism itself isn’t a lot different. This is the brand of journalism I’ve been doing for more than a decade.”

De Rosa thinks they’re improving on what has been around for years.

“They [local papers] simply can’t provide the scale and variety of voices we give a platform to,” he said. “Town papers are too reliant on too few people with too narrow a point of view.”

Technology is letting more and more people have voices – speak to the public or whomever wants to read or listen.  Now, innovations like smart phones and Twitter are only making it easier to spread info, especially while on the go.

“There is definitely a switch from desktop computing with the increase in smart phones use and apps,” Wagner said. “However, the early adopter crowd is almost completely mobile; forward thinking brands are allotting more of their budgets to target these users.”

Lee agreed.

“People are becoming more and more expectant of having information and conducting transactions at their fingertips at any point in time, anywhere,” Lee said. “Mobile technology is becoming more complex to meet this need; as products and services provide greater utility, consumers and businesses are turning toward mobile for everyday commerce.”

All agreed that Twitter is a very useful tool to help advance their application and reach out to its users.  Twitter is a micro-blogging platform that allows people or companies to broadcast short messages to whoever chooses to follow them.

“For me, the biggest social network tool I use is Twitter,” Connic said. “It’s my tool to instantly publish information, especially breaking news. My account feeds straight onto the site at the top of every page. So if I want to draw someone’s attention to an article or story, I use it to do that.

“Plus posting breaking news there is incredibly important. I also answer reader questions and retweet things people bring to my attention,” she said. “One night with the school budget I received plenty of questions on Twitter, which I tried to answer best I could. I do a lot of real-time reporting, so Twitter is an important tool for that.”

Brightkite and Yelp use a different approach.

“We use Twitter in three main ways: to announce company/service news to our followers, to answer customer concerns expressed over Twitter via a direct message and to allow users on Brightkite to send their check ins & posts to Twitter and Facebook,” Wagner said.

“On a smaller, yet still impactful scale, our customer support team at Yelp HQ handles thousands of inquiries on a daily basis regarding questions and concerns from the community,” Lee said. “Not to mention our extensive interaction with the public via our Facebook page and official Twitter handle, @Yelp.”

Of the location-based social networks, Foursquare is the far and away leader.  Boasting over 1 million users, the company has recently signed deals with the New York Times, Bravo and The History Channel. Through these relationships, users are given facts or specials badges when they check in at certain locations determined by the companies.

Foursqaure was not available for comment.

“I use Foursquare to an extent,” Connic said, “I use it mainly to tell my readers where I am in case they need me because my account is connected with Twitter. We don’t have an office, so I’m out in the community working. So it’s important for people to find me. I do think there is a trend toward location-based information. We do a bit of that now with our maps, which are connected to stories, events and the directory.”

De Rosa agreed that it’s what the new users want.

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“I think they are very much the future because people want to know what is going on, where their friends are and where are the cool places to go,” De Rosa said.

But is this as personal as it’s going to get?

“It is one step closer, but we are constantly looking at ways we can make it even more personalized,” De Rosa said. “We may add filters in the future so people can look specifically at types of content they want to read about in a particular neighborhood, like say the best pet stores in the Astoria, Queens and the experiences people have had there.”

Connic, though, thinks this is as zoomed-in as we can get.

“I think what I do is as local as it can get. We get contributions from readers about youth soccer and Little League,” she said. “You don’t see a lot of places doing that sort of thing.”

Lee and Wagner shared a different outlook.

“It’s still an exciting and developing frontier, offering a lot of opportunities for consumers and local businesses that didn’t previously exist,” Lee said. “We’ll likely continue to see a proliferation of new products as technology improves, offering timelier, localized services to the public.”

“Pretty soon everything can be pulled out of the cloud from anywhere and posted, shared and exchanged on hyper-local networks,” Wagner said. “I think the future holds a lot more instant gratification from anywhere.”

De Rosa put the power in the hands of the contributors.

“Content, as always, is king and we have the best content out there,” De Rosa said.

In the fourth, it was all Bobcats, scoring five times to pull away. Haggerty started the fourth with his fifth of the game, followed by sophomore midfielder Zach Pall scoring to give the Bobcats’ a four-goal lead. Two straight goals from the Pioneers cut the lead in half, but the Bobcats didn’t fold. They scored the last three goals to come away with the 13-8 victory.

Haggerty got the Bobcats (7-5) going in the first quarter, scoring the first two goals of the game. A little under a minute after Haggerty’s second goal, junior attacker Jack Oppenheimer extended the lead to 3-0. Freshman midfielder Basil Kostaras sent a pass to Oppenheimer who was sitting at the top of the crease and he ripped it into the back of the net.

After a Pioneer goal cut the lead to two, Haggerty and Oppenheimer again scored less than a minute apart. Haggerty fired a shot from straight on that snuck past the goaltender.  Thirty seconds later, Oppenheimer scored his second of the game off a feed from junior midfielder Kevin Kelly.

Another Pioneer goal cut the lead to 5-2, but Oppenheimer feeded senior midfielder Garett Kerr to add on to the lead. Less than a minute later junior midfielder Billy Alessi fed Haggerty from behind the net for his fourth goal of the first half.

But the Pioneers scored the last goal of the half and the first two of the third quarter to cut the Bobcats’ lead to two. Oppenheimer responded with his third goal to extend the lead back to three. The Pioneers again scored the last goal of the quarter to enter the fourth down by just two goals.

The Bobcats return home on Saturday when they take on Bryant in a non-conference matchup.

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Andrew Lawrence hit a solo homer in the bottom of the eighth off DeFrancesco to make it 6-0 BC. The Bobcats scratched across their only run of the game in the top of the ninth on a bases-loaded walk earned by Joe Poletsky.

The Eagles struck first against the Bobcats’ freshman right-hander in the first inning. John Spatola put BC on the board with an RBI single, scoring Matt Hamlet for the first run. Spatola stole second base and came around to score on an RBI single by Matt Watson. Watson was gunned down at second by left fielder Ben Farina to retire the side.

Boston College pulled away in the fourth inning. After loading the bases with nobody out, Mike Sudol reached on an error by shortstop Mickey Amanti, bringing in the third Eagles run. Dummar then struck out Anthony Melchionda but was unable to prepare for the trickery the Eagles executed.

Brad Zapenas dropped down a bunt that was fielded by Dummar, whose only play was to first. Watson came across with the fourth Boston College run. The Eagles got another run in the fourth on an RBI triple from Garret Smith.

Clemens (2-2) was outstanding for the Eagles, giving up one run on six hits, striking out seven and walking two over 8 2-3 innings. Dummar (0-3) was charged with the loss, giving up five runs (three earned) on five hits, striking out five and walking three. DeFrancesco was strong for the Bobcats in relief, surrendering one run on three hits and two walks in four innings.

The Bobcats return to NEC action when they travel to West Long Branch, N.J. for a four-game series with Monmouth from Friday to Sunday.  Quinnipiac currently sits at 9-7 in the Northeast Conference.

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Regardless, they’re stealing our jobs. Every day. Why would someone hire a skilled landscape artist to revamp the front lawn for $100 per hour when we can just hire seven Mexicans to do it for $10 an hour with the division of labor? They wouldn’t; it’s more expensive.

Mexicans are taking all the jobs teenagers and high schoolers should be taking to develop a good work ethic. Mexicans take jobs like flipping burgers, cleaning dishes, and mowing lawns. Mexicans need to stop taking our jobs. We need to start a war on Mexicans.

You know what else I hate for taking American jobs? Machines. A single machine can effectively do the work of a dozen workers plowing fields or manufacturing cars on an assembly line. Why pay 20 assembly workers a $25,000 annual salary when you can just make the one-time expense of buying some machine for $250,000 that will last for five years? You wouldn’t; it’s more expensive. It’s just one-tenth of the cost, and machines don’t have sick days. Machines are taking all the jobs many hardworking Americans need to put food on the table for their families. We have ATMs taking the place of tellers, assembly machines putting together cars rather than auto-mechanics, and giant one-man field plows which eliminates the need for 25 workers with shovels. Machines need to stop taking our jobs. We need to start a war on machines.

You know what else I hate for taking American jobs? The Internet. The Internet allows us to instantly access anything and everything all around the world, including paying our bills electronically, and buying clothes from clothing stores’ websites, not to mention the fact that it’s the epicenter of information. Why should Best Buy hire 50 clerks when they only need 25 because half of their clientele shops online? Why would a company like Best Buy choose to only operate out of buildings when it can also operate online, expanding their sales while downsizing employment? They wouldn’t; it’s more expensive. Plus, the Internet doesn’t need a raise or healthcare benefits. The Internet is taking away jobs from librarians at libraries, clerks at stores, and, with the rise of e-mail and e-billing, even letter carriers working for the postal service. The Internet needs to stop taking our jobs. We need to start a war on the Internet.

You know what else I hate for taking American jobs? These do-it-yourself workshops they hold at Home Depot every Saturday. Whether it’s wallpapering your kitchen or building a patio for an outside deck, Home Depot hires a single employee to teach a workshop for about 20 people on how to do these things themselves, rendering useless people who actually do tiling, roofing, and plumbing for a living. Why would you hire a pro for $50 per hour plus materials to build your kid a swing set, when you can just do it yourself for free? You wouldn’t; it’s more expensive. Plus if you do it yourself, you don’t have to wait around all day for some stranger to show up at your house and then worry about them stealing your shit. These God-forsaken do-it-yourself workshops make professional plumbers and home fixer-uppers a thing of the past. We need to start a war on do-it-yourself workshops.

The point I’m trying to make is, I don’t understand why there is so much animosity and fear towards low-skilled Hispanics taking low-skilled jobs for lesser pay. They’re not “stealing” jobs. When I think of a Mexican stealing a job, I think of a white person walking out of a Sears with their head held high because of their new promotion, and then a group of Mexicans jumping him and wrestling the job out of his hands as if it were as tangible as a paper bill. If you don’t like the system, that is, companies hiring workers for lower pay, don’t fight the Mexicans: fight capitalism. That is what our economic system is fueled by; minimizing costs to expand the bottom line so the guy at the top can have another vacation home. That’s just how it is. No one is going to hire someone for more money to do the same job because it’s moral. It’s called competing for a job, and if your method of competing means you are willing to work for pubic hairs and a pat on the back, you win.

Or, here’s a grand idea, read a book and make yourself a marketable asset so your only job opportunities aren’t mowing a lawn or cleaning a pool. The more highly-educated you are, the less competition you will find for the job you wish to acquire. I’ve never heard of some CFO at a major corporation writing to the New York Times complaining about all these immigrants competing for the Vice-Chief-Accountant-Executive spot at his company. Heck, maybe if you even go as far as getting a master’s or PhD you won’t have to compete for a job because jobs will compete for you.

The Quinnipiac University Singers performed their annual spring concert to sweet sounds on April 22 in Buckman Theater. The concert marked Professor Fred Rossomando’s ninth consecutive year as choral director. In front of an overflowing theater, Rossomando successfully conducted 56 members through a repertoire featuring music from The Beatles, “Man of La Mancha,” and “A Chorus Line.” The musical collection consisted of “One” from “A Chorus Line,” The Beatles’ “Band on the Run,” an arrangement of “Ease On Down The Road” from “The Wiz,” “Somewhere Out There” from “An American Tale,” and a medley from “Man of La Mancha.” QU Jazz Ensemble provided the pre-concert music.

“Powerful melodies stick with people, it’s like the fabric of your life,” Rossomando said in an introduction speech.

The QU Singers performed their annual fall concert in December. The chorus began rehearsing for the spring concert in January with more than 55 students wanting to join. This concert marked the last performance for 5 senior chorus members.

“Although we are saying goodbye to several senior members tonight, I will never forget their leadership, strong voices and friendship,” Rossomando said in a special thanks note.

The Quinnipiac University Singers showcased their beautiful harmonizing through an eclectic blend of upbeat music throughout the decades.

WRECK of the week: ‘South Park’ censored

YouTube: Good Morning America: Limits of Funny: ‘South Park’ Censored

Comedy Central censored the 200th episode of “South Park” this week after they depicted the Prophet Muhammad disguised in a bear costume. Any physical representation of Muhammad is considered blasphemous, which forced the New York-based Muslim group, the Muslim Revolution, to warn creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker that they could be killed. The message sent to Stone and Parker insinuated that the two could end up like Theo Van Gogh, a Dutch documentarian murdered for his depiction of violence against Muslim women. In the latest episode, the bear costume was replaced with Santa Claus. Comedy Central also censored dialogue at the end between characters Stan, Jesus Christ and Santa Claus. In response to the censorship, Stone and Parker released a joint statement: “In the 14 years we’ve been doing South Park we have never done a show that we couldn’t stand behind. We delivered our version of the show to Comedy Central and they made a determination to alter the episode.” Comedy Central’s own Jon Stewart came to the defense of the show, telling the Revolution Muslim to “Go F—k yourselves.” Veiled threats against Stone and Parker violate their free speech. Comedy Central’s censorship is inconsistent with past situations because Muhammad has been depicted before and was not censored. Something needs to change.