What follows the annual Tommie-Johnnie exhibition of bawdy T-shirts

Fall football’s Tommie-Johnnie obnoxious T-shirt battle is underway, and apparently the standards of decency are once again under siege.

St. Thomas’ VP for student affairs, Jane Canney, tells TommieMedia what follows the football game and parade of raunch:

“What happens afterwards is we get calls; we get letters from people who are mortified that they see St. Thomas students wearing shirts that are so undignified.”

Read the full story here.

And here’s my post on it from last year — links to T-shirt photos included.

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Alex Friedrich reports on higher education issues for MPR News. Among the stories he has covered: the fall of the Berlin Wall, aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, 2003 Moscow suicide bombing and 2004 presidential elections in the Republic of Georgia. He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Georgia and a master’s in European political economy from the London School of Economics.