[marshall]

I didn't see it in St Louis but I had a long chat with our district director about the clothespin problem that I've seen happen at some events. Students will take to putting clothespins on other students in some sort of ritual tag game, which is fine if those students know each other. It's when they don't that I have a problem with it. Putting them on strangers is not acceptable and it's going to lead to a more serious problem down the road if nothing is done about it.

It's an issue and I've had more than one student feel harassed because of it. In all cases for my team it has been female students who felt harassed for having the clothespins placed on them by male students from other teams. I'm tired of dealing with it year after year personally and I plan on making a big point of it so it stops. It's unacceptable.