By Lisa Maria Garza
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - "Campus (Dildo) Carry" day is on track at the University of Texas and students who pack sex toys to protest a new law that expands the right to carry guns on campus will not be punished, university officials said on Tuesday.
The protest planned for the start of classes next year is aimed at showing what organizers said is the folly of penalizing people up to $500 under Texas law for violating obscenity rules for having a sex toy on campus while making it legal for a concealed handgun license holder to bring a pistol into the classroom.
Nearly 8,000 people have signed up to strap sex toys to their backpacks on Aug. 24, 2016, at the university's flagship campus in Austin on the first day of the fall semester.
On Aug. 1 a new, so-called "campus carry" law will go into effect allowing people 21 and older with a concealed handgun license to carry handguns in classrooms and buildings at the University of Texas system, one of the nation's largest with an enrollment of more than 214,000.
"You're carrying a gun to class? Yeah well, I'm carrying a HUGE DILDO," wrote protest organizer and University of Texas alumna Jessica Jin, 24.
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - "Campus (Dildo) Carry" day is on track at the University of Texas and students who pack sex toys to protest a new law that expands the right to carry guns on campus will not be punished, university officials said on Tuesday.
The protest planned for the start of classes next year is aimed at showing what organizers said is the folly of penalizing people up to $500 under Texas law for violating obscenity rules for having a sex toy on campus while making it legal for a concealed handgun license holder to bring a pistol into the classroom.
Nearly 8,000 people have signed up to strap sex toys to their backpacks on Aug. 24, 2016, at the university's flagship campus in Austin on the first day of the fall semester.
On Aug. 1 a new, so-called "campus carry" law will go into effect allowing people 21 and older with a concealed handgun license to carry handguns in classrooms and buildings at the University of Texas system, one of the nation's largest with an enrollment of more than 214,000.
"You're carrying a gun to class? Yeah well, I'm carrying a HUGE DILDO," wrote protest organizer and University of Texas alumna Jessica Jin, 24.