Fenced Out
A sports club at North Dakota State University has been told it can’t practice on campus. The reason: they’re fencers, and their foils, épées and sabers “are deemed weapons, and as such, possession or use on University-owned or -controlled property is prohibited,” says university police director Ray Boyer. Club president Winfield Brand says fencing swords are less dangerous than baseball bats. “This is a spring and a flat tip that if you press the spring against the body of the other person, [you] will be awarded a point,” he says. The club is practicing elsewhere. (AC/KVLY Fargo) ...A fencing foil is for scoring points. Trying to foil fencing scores no points.Original Publication Date: 18 May 2014
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 20.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 20.
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