US university scraps porn after funding threat
by Alex Ogle Alex Ogle – Thu Apr 2, 7:04 pm ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) – An attempt to distract university students in Maryland from late-night drinking with a feature-length porn movie was blocked Thursday after state senators threatened to cut funds for the college.
The two-and-a-half-hour "Pirates II: Stagnetti's Revenge" -- the most expensive pornographic film ever made, at a cost of 10 million dollars -- would have been shown at a University of Maryland student union theater on Saturday.
Organizers at the College Park campus, 10 miles (16 kilometers) north of Washington, had championed educational aspects of the screening, with health group Planned Parenthood planning to hold a presentation on safe sex practices beforehand.
The event was also previously seen by university officials as an "alternative to late-night drinking and other dangerous activities," the Baltimore Sun reported before the cancellation.
Republican state senator Andy Harris, however, proposed an amendment to the state budget to deny millions of dollars in funding for any educational institutions that screen a porn movie.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090402/ts_alt_afp/useducationfilmcensorshippornographyI knew Andy Harris was a total scuzbucket, I didn't realize he was a bluenose as well. Ah, well, I guess that's just the charade the little reichwingers have to maintain to appeal to "the base". He' s probably got quite a collection at home -- or do Repugs only review porn in committee?