Honeys Hide their Hijinks

An extensive photo display of members of the UT student group the Longhorn Hellraiser Honeys engaging in such venerable collegiate traditions as "Pukefest" and "Get Drunk Before You Flunk" has disappeared from the student organization's Web site on the UT server. The move comes as the male branch of the student group is in the news after complaints that its "Cowboys and Native Americans" costume party was insensitive to real Native Americans. (That despite the fact that the group deliberately did not use the term "Indians" so as not to offend anyone.)

It also comes a few days after a reader forwarded us an e-mail allegedly distributed on the Honeys' listserv warning that with all the fuss being raised about the Hellraisers, someone better take those pictures of underage drinking down. The Chronicle cannot confirm the veracity of the e-mail. Dan Updegrove, UT's vice-president for information technology, said that his office doesn't keep track of what sorts of activities are being promoted by student groups using the server. "We have 2 million Web pages," he said. "Do the math." He said it's up to the dean of students to oversee the behavior of sponsored groups.

While The Austin Chronicle does not endorse underage drinking, we do endorse celebrations of many and varied kinds, and salute this anonymous Honey (see picture) for her fierce determination to make headway on this enormous vessel of ... um ... apple juice.