'I just had an amazing idea,' Tina Fey, a UVA alum, says in a new public-service annoucement. 'Stop doing that.'
LGBT students have been protesting the tradition since the early 2000s. The administration hadn't officially taken action against it before, but this week it released an Instagram video featuring alumni, administrators and current students calling out the homophobic phrasing and asking fans to"keep the Good Old Song good" by singing it as written.
The video includes contributions from University of Virginia President Jim Ryan, UVA Center for Politics director Larry Sabato, head football coach Bronco Mendenhall and Cavaliers cornerback Bryce Hall, who is already being talked about as a first round pick for the 2020 NFL draft. Fey graduated from UVA in 1992 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in drama. While there, she was awarded the, given to fourth-year drama students who have made"distinctive contributions to the University's drama department."
After graduation, she took improv classes with Chicago's storied Second City troupe and, in 1997, was hired as a writer on. She soon became the show's first female head writer and began performing in sketches in 2000.
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