SCC To Begin Enforcing Hays Code on Midway
As booth organizations begin to design their booths for the 2025 Spring Carnival, Spring Carnival Committee has announced a controversial new slate of regulations for the upcoming semester. In a press release emailed out to all booth chairs SCC required all booth designs to comply with Hollywood’s 1934 Hays Code. The email stated that booth was an art form in its own right, and as such had a “moral obligation and imperative to instill the correct morals in those who visit.” All booth themes will be resubmitted for secondary review. If a theme fails to meet the new requirements it will be discarded and the organization will have up to three days to submit a second theme.
To comply with the Hays Code, booths must be themed after movies which meet its criteria. Films with morally-gray characters of any kind are banned, as are depictions of crime, violence, homosexuality, and any implications of marital affection. Men and women are not allowed to be working on a booth at the same time, as building a house together conjures images of homemaking and domesticity. Such homemaking implies the existence of a relationship, and intrinsically implies the existence of sexual relations. Builders of the same gender, however, are similarly banned from working together due to the implications of homosexual relationships. Thus, only one person may work on a booth at a time.
According to SCC, children who attend Spring Carnival are particularly susceptible to violent imagery. Booth organizations are allowed to choose movies with up to a cup of blood shown on screen. The yearly Stever Fight Club booth, alongside the yearly Teardown Bloodletting, will be banned from this year’s Carnival. Organizations will also be prohibited from passing out illicit substances as their game’s prize. Games are no longer allowed to teach participants how to commit various crimes, or to be generally unpleasant in any way.
Enforcement of the Hays Code will come from the Booth Un-American Activities Committee. Organizations who violate the Hays Code will be subject to different levels of fines depending on the severity of the infraction. Extreme violators will be summoned to testify before the BUAC to answer questions about their actions and/or political affiliations. Those found guilty of being commie scum will be removed from Midway and imprisoned in the Wean prison cells for a minimum of one week. Investigations into the moral decay of Spring Carnival have already begun, with Scotty himself, the booth chairs of the CMU KGB, and four random students of vaguely eastern-european descent being called before BUAC in what is being called the Tartan 10. An anonymous source has informed READme that political purges have already begun within SCC and are expected to spread through other organizations. ReadMe is currently investigating rumors of an “April Revolution” being planned by the CMU KGB in protest of the new regulations, and we encourage readers to follow this story to ensure their carnival weekend is morally acceptable.