We can’t have college students hearing chants at sporting events that might offend their delicate sensibilities, can we?

Christopher White of the College Fix reports.

Longtime MU Fan Chants Deemed Offensive, Banned From Arena

“Scum, scum, scum – go back to where you’re from . . .” is a chant that could be heard at any given University of Missouri Tiger basketball game over the years as Mizzou fans taunted opponents.

That ear-catching howl is the progeny of an MU cheer group called The Antlers, formed in 1976 by a small cadre of students in the hopes of generating interest in the university’s basketball team. It was created to cause a stir. Their “scum” cheer is more than 10 years old.

But now, the sing-song has been deemed mean-spirited and unsportsmanlike conduct and banned from games. The die-hard fans who “bleed black and gold” and sung  the ‘ol chant? Kicked out.

MU’s Athletic Director Mike Alden, citing inappropriate behavior, directed university police to eject the cheer group from two games, back-to-back, in late November.

Group members were forced out of their seats, down the aisles of the auditorium and, eventually, out of the MU arena during games against Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis and Gardner-Webb University.

“This is actually laughable to me, but let me just say this … we have high expectations for our students and our staff at the University of Missouri,” Alden told reporters. “Our core values are respect, responsibility, discovery and excellence, and it’s critically important that we represent those values every day in everything we do.”

The ejection was made only a day after MU junior Emmett “Sir Loins” DeLaney, the group’s Grand Poobah, met with officials from the university, including the vice chancellor for student affairs, to discuss so-called appropriate cheers.