According to a tip from Public Safety employee Al Lydsikirity, the University’s campus-wide mask ban sure stirs up some trouble around Halloween.
Al explained to The Fed that the policy was a major source of frustration for the public safety team. “Just a real pain in my behind, I’ll tell ya,” Al told us. “Just a parade of Batmen, Spidermen, skeletons, guys from Fortnite,” Al said, “and I gotta tell all of them to take that shit off or I’ll call the NYPD. It’s exhausting.”
The controversial mask policy prohibits students from using face coverings as a means of concealing their identity. There are exceptions for religious and medical reasons, but Mr. Lydsikirity notes that these policies can be just as troublesome. “I had a guy dressed like Squid Game. And I said, ‘You’re not allowed to be Squid Game. Can’t cover your face. Go be Squid Game somewhere else.’ And he told me it was religious, cause Halloween is All Hallow’s Eve and he’s Christian. So now I—Al Lydsikirity—I gotta step up and make the call on whether or not we’re persecuting this guy’s religion if we say he’s not allowed to be Squid Game.”
While the work is tiresome, Lydsikirity recognizes that the policy is still important. “We never know which one of these Squid Games is gonna be a protestor,” he said, “and we can’t let Halloween get in the way of our responsibility to dox teenagers.”
