PC Watch: On-Stage Props at Yale

Yale, which has perhaps the nation’s most famous drama school, has decided to ban guns from its on-stage plays, along with most other weapons. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Yale’s:

dean of student affairs, Betty Trachtenberg, reacted to the Virginia Tech murders by taking decisive action: She banned all stage weapons from plays performed on campus. After protests from the drama department, she modified her decisive action to "permit the use of obviously fake weapons" such as plastic swords.