College fears 'war paint' could 'threaten our sense of community'

College fears 'war paint' could 'threaten our sense of community'
"Millersville University is warning students against wearing Halloween costumes that could promote “cultural appropriation,” saying they should make their costume selections with “thoughtfulness and sensitivity.”

• "Poor decisions" like wearing "war paint...are examples of cultural appropriation and misrepresentation" that "threaten our sense of community," the school says.
• Millersville University is warning students against wearing Halloween costumes that could promote “cultural appropriation,” saying they should make their costume selections with “thoughtfulness and sensitivity.”

The Pennsylvania college sent out an email Wednesday, a copy of which was obtained by Campus Reform, to lecture its students on the potentially “poor decisions” that could be made on Halloween, like “wearing feathered headdresses” or painting themselves with “war paint.”
“Halloween is also a time when normal thoughtfulness and sensitivity can sometimes be forgotten. Poor decisions such as wearing feathered headdresses, ‘war paint,’ or other skin tone modifications, such as blackface, are examples of cultural appropriation and misrepresentation,” the school’s vice president of student affairs, Brian Hazlett, wrote in a campus-wide email.
...Finally, Hazlett concludes his email by pleading with his students to ask themselves one simple question when choosing what to wear for the approaching holding, that being: “Could someone take offense with your costume and why?”...