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Gonzaga University Tells Students That Cinco de Mayo Parties Are Racist

Elliott Hamilton

It seems as if college administrators are becoming real-life versions of Buzz Killington from Family Guy. Every time college students wish to embark on some amount of mostly innocuous debauchery, administrators decide to inconvenience students’ lives and remind them that anything, if not everything they do, could be offensive to their peers. Judie Biggs Garbuio, the Vice President for Student Development at Gonzaga University, did exactly that in anticipation of Cinco de Mayo.

On May 4, Garbuio sent out the following email:

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