Fallout continues for Baraboo students in wake of photo showing what looks like Nazi salute

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

More than 5,000 people have signed on to an online petition calling on the Baraboo School District to suspend students who appear to be giving a Nazi salute in a group photograph shot before their spring prom in May.

Baraboo District Administrator Lori Mueller has said she is investigating the photo and will take appropriate action. But repeated efforts to speak with her Tuesday were not successful.

Regardless of any discipline meted out by the school, the image could have far-reaching consequences for the young men pictured there, according to a university administrator.

"This could very well have an impact on their ability to get into college," said Stefanie Niles, vice president for Enrollment and Communications at Ohio Wesleyan University and president of the National Association for College Admission Counseling.

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[beachbum bob]

1. Actions have consequences....too f*cking bad

[Sneederbunk]

2. Have any of those photographed spoken about the incident?

[MagickMuffin]

5. Yes, Jordan Blue the young man who didn't participate in the salute

he wrote about why he did not participate in it and said the photographer asked them to do it. Jordan was uncomfortable and therefore he just stood there.

[ProudLib72]

3. Didn't you see the interview with the photographer?

He asked them to "wave goodbye to their parents". So nothing to see here, I guess.

[mucifer]

8. so the parents are adolf hitler?

[Quixote1818]

11. They all waved with their right hands and one kid is doing a white power sign.

[ProudLib72]

12. Yeah, I didn't buy the photographer's lame excuse either.

I forget now where I saw him being interviewed, but when he said that I just

[MagickMuffin]

4. According to Jordan Blue the student who did not participate

the photographer asked them to do it. They should also be investigated!

[MagickMuffin]

6. Pete Gust, the former-teacher-turned-photographer who shot the image

The photograph drew international condemnation this week after it went viral on social media. The image, taken by a professional photographer and parent of one of the students, shows about 60 young men standing on the steps of the Sauk County Courthouse before the prom. About 30 appear to be giving the Nazi salute and one, in the front row, is flashing a the three-fingered OK sign widely associated with white power movements.


Pete Gust, the former-teacher-turned-photographer who shot the image, told The Associated Press that he had asked the teens to wave goodbye to their parents before heading off to prom.

[Roland99]

9. Yeah. I always put my arm and fingers straight out when I wave goodbye

[MagickMuffin]

13. Stiff arm wave

Apparently it's a thang!

[blueinredohio]

7. If these were prom pictures where are the girls?

And if that was too many for the picture why didn't he take them separately?

[Quixote1818]

10. This should be a teachable moment for every school in the country! nt