First They Came for Your Cookies, Then They Came for Your Sodas, and Now They Come for Your Sweet Corn

Ronald Bailey | September 13, 2007

University of Iowa has banned a corn-on-the-cob eating contest because administrators feared that it sends the wrong message. As the Des Moines Register reports:

U of I Vice President for Student Services Philip Jones canceled a corn-on-the-cob eating contest scheduled for today as part of the "Beat State Week" celebration leading up to the Iowa-Iowa State football game because the corn contest "encourages gluttony," he said.

"I don't know that anyone can say that's a healthy concept," Jones said of the event planned by the U of I Alumni Association.

But some people might think it's fun. Fun? What's that? Don't you know that college administrators exist to stamp out fun?

Whole article here.