T-Shirt Times

By Greg Moran
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

Lawyers for a former Poway High School student who was pulled out of class for wearing an anti-gay T-shirt have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review an early ruling in the case.

Papers filed yesterday by the Alliance Defense Fund urged the court to take up an April ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which said high school administrators were justified when they removed Tyler Chase Harper from class.

AdvertisementIn 2004, Harper, then a sophomore, wore a shirt on which he wrote, “I will not accept what God has condemned,” and on the back, “Homosexuality is shameful ‘Romans 1:27.’ ” The incident occurred during a day set aside by a student group to promote tolerance of gays and lesbians.
School officials said the shirt was offensive, could have led to disruptions at school and violated the school’s dress code. Harper has sued the district saying his free speech rights were violated. The case is still pending in San Diego federal court.

Meanwhile, his lawyers had asked U.S. District Court Judge John A. Houston to issue an injunction preventing the school from enforcing its dress code while the case proceeded. Houston ruled against Harper on the issue.

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COLLIER COUNTY: Administrators at one Collier County high school are banning T-shirts that were worn by seniors and even a few of the teachers. Students are upset with the decision because they believe the shirts brought students closer together.

Officials with the Collier County School Board say the T-shirts that have a picture of a frothy mug on the back are simply inappropriate. In fact, board members believed the shirts to be so bad, Gulf Coast High School students that were wearing them at school had to take them off, turn them inside out, or cover them up.

Gulf Coast High School is the home of the Sharks. Students say that administrators attacked their shirts with the same ferocity that a shark would attack its prey.

"I hear the announcement everybody wearing the shirt go to I.S.S. and I laughed. I thought, this is going to be bad," said Gulf Coast student Patrick Steyer. "Everybody was arguing that we should be able to wear the shirts because there is nothing wrong with them."

On the front of the shirt it says, "GCHS 2007 Seniors." On the back it says, "We’re busting outta this mug." The phrase is coupled with the picture of the frothy mug.

The problem is that many people interpret the mug to be a mug full of beer. The students had words printed underneath the mug that they thought would clear up any misconceptions. But that was not the case.

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By Daily News staff

Thursday, October 26, 2006

About 50 Gulf Coast High School students are at odds with school administration today over their senior class T-shirt.

The students were taken out of class this morning and told to turn their T-shirts inside-out or remove them, or they would be in violation of the school’s dress code.

The shirts said “we’re busting out of this mug” on the front, then on the back had a mug with foam, and the words “root beer” in small print. Gulf Coast High seniors said they don’t agree with the administration’s reasons for having the shirts removed.

The school administration said the shirts had alcoholic innuendo and weren’t appropriate for the classroom.

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A 34-year-old street vendor selling bootleg T-shirts after a Red Hot Chili Peppers concert lost a few teeth after an unknown motorist dragged him down the street after the sold-out show, according to authorities.

South Philadelphia detectives said the street salesman from the Bronx held on tightly after a motorist passing by grabbed a shirt and refused to pay late Monday night outside the Wachovia Center.

Investigators said the passenger in a white Ford F-250 grabbed the seller’s arm, too, dragging him nearly a block before letting go and speeding away

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HONOLULU (KHNL) - Sunday’s earthquakes not only shook Hawaii, they also rattled a whole lot of nerves. And now some people are wearing their stories of survival on their sleeves. "Hula Quake" t-shirts hit store shelves on Tuesday.

Crazy-Shirts designed the commemorative tees, which boast: "I survived the quakes." The shirts include a drawing of a Richter scale, the date, times, and magnitudes of Sunday’s earthquakes. The tees are going for about $23.

A portion of the proceeds will go toward recovery efforts.

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Goshen - Some of the messages were painful, allowing for as much biography of domestic abuse as a woman could fit onto the front of a T-shirt.

Some were heartbreaking, like the one that simply read: “Daddy, please stop hitting Mommy.”

If you stood back from the more than 300 T-shirts on display outside the Orange County Government Center in Goshen last Thursday, you were reminded of how frequently women are abused by the men who say they loved them.

But you also could see that there is strength in numbers and in each message of survival.

The Orange County Coalition Against Domestic Violence hosted its second annual Clothesline Project outside the county building to bear witness to violence against women, crimes large and small, physical as well as emotional, and for which statistics will never present a true picture because there is so much hidden and kept silent.

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