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11/22/2008: "Conversation cops step in to school students"

Your friend's new fuchsia fedora might be hideous. But don't call it gay, or you might get a language lesson from the conversation cops.

Students at Queen's University who sprinkle their dialogue with an assortment of "homo" or "retarded" could find out the hard way that not everyone finds their remarks acceptable.

The Kingston university has hired student facilitators to step in when they overhear homophobic slurs, remarks bashing women or racially tinged insults, along with an array of other language that could be deemed offensive.

That means tete-a-tetes in the residence hallways may no longer be just between friends.

[ That is just so totally gay and retarded. ]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20081119.LANGUAGE19//TPStory/Front