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Perhaps it's a Mississippi/Berkeley thang. Elvis was from Mississippi. One will hunt and hunt and nott find the yellow crescent fruit in any of the dining halls at UC (home of the Bears - who are none too friendly towards Bigfoot!).

A weekend fraternity retreat at the University of Mississippi ended early on Saturday because a student threw his banana peel away in a tree — and some students who saw it got “frightened” that the peel was a racist attack.

According to an article in the Daily Mississippian, three black students told National Pan-Hellenic Council leaders that they had seen a banana peel on a tree and that they were very upset about it. The leaders then shared their concerns with the rest of the camp, and one of the attendees, Ryan Swanson, admitted that he had placed the peel on the tree — explaining that he had actually not done so because he hates people of color and wants to intimidate them, but because he just couldn’t find a garbage can to put it in.

But it didn’t end there: In fact, it prompted an entire day of “camp-wide conversation” about the racist “symbolism, intended or not” of the banana, a conversation that made some students feel so upset that they didn’t feel “safe” enough to stay, which ultimately led to the rest of the retreat being canceled altogether.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/451013/banana-peel-frightens-mississippi-fraternity-retreat-ole-miss-fraternity-canceled