Cheerleader dismissed from squad for working at Hooters restaurant

[karyn]

from nbc



An East Tennessee State University student says she was dismissed from the cheerleading squad because she works at a Hooters restaurant. Advertisement

Freshman Kimberly Sams says she's 18 and should be allowed to work where she wants.

The owl-themed restaurants feature waitresses in snug athletic shirts and shorts. The company has a banner on its Web site reading, "Delightfully tacky, yet unrefined."

Sams says she was called into a locker room after practice and dismissed by squad coach Tammy Bartow about three weeks ago. Sams says Bartow told her the off-campus job was the reason.

Athletic director Dave Mullins wouldn't comment on Sams' dismissal, citing student privacy laws.

Hooters Vice President Mike McNeil in Atlanta said the owl-themed restaurant chain "supports the employee and the statements she's making." He also said ETSU should reinstate her to the cheerleading squad.

Katie Allison Granju , Producer

[bohoki]

definatly unfair

unless they can cite a rule against it
its an unfair arbitrary dismissal
i cant believe the school wants a lawsuit

but i havent heard from the rest of the parties so it may not be working at hooters that did it

of course right now the school is probably searching for a different reason

seems to me i would only kick cheerleaders off the team if they worked at walmart

[Dr. Faust]

See, thats why I like Hooters in Memphis. You can eat hot wings, and I like them as hot as they come and will still et there even if they didnt have cute, orange shorts clad girls, but Hooters is only about a mile from Platimun Plus and you can see the same girls who work at Hooters strip buck a*s naked later on that night. So Hooters is like an appitiser.

[Luna Star]

Gross......?!

[Pull~My~Hair]

I am going to Hooters at four tonight...there is a radio station there and my parents asked me to go get them free tix to a concert coming up.

[Agent Vicious Vivaldi]

That makes me think of those cheerleaders (for some professional sports team) that got in trouble for having sex in a bathroom a few months ago.

I think it's just cuz both stories involve cheerleaders.

[Luna Star]

I don't understand what you guys see that is so funny about young girls being "exposed"......And the fasination with cheerleaders.....Put the two together and you have a child molester....

[Agent Vicious Vivaldi]

I've never really had a fascination with cheerleaders...The ones at my high school weren't even that attractive...

[Agent Vicious Vivaldi]

Come to think of it...is it any different or any worse than a school girl fetish?

[Luna Star]

No, ADULTS are in the costumes first of all.....and second if you're thinking of a school-age girl when looking yyou need to have you head checked....
I have two younger sisters so if I sound off kelter that's why.....
I'm the oldest of three....21....14....10

[Agent Vicious Vivaldi]

I don't know. I've never really had any feeling one way or the other towards cheerleaders or school girls. I find it bizzare that adults would dress that way. There's something inherently absurd about it and it only gets more abusred as she gets older.

[Luna Star]

Hehe, floppy titties,lol hahahahaha

[Agent Vicious Vivaldi]

aiyeeeeeeeeeee ahhh..waaaaaaa...

I just got this image of a wrinkly old lady in a plaid skirt twirling her hair arond in this pho-seductive pose. Blech.

[Luna Star]

Yup, like that one commercial on T.V.lol

[Agent Vicious Vivaldi]

Oh god...that seems like it'd be BAD advertising!

[Luna Star]

it was for the stop smoking/stay in school thing

[Agent Vicious Vivaldi]

Oh. That makes more sense then. At least it wasn't like some...like...commercial for something...I'd...want...I dunno.

[Lady Alias]

WTH? I highly doubt that is legal to do. That's absurd. There might possible be an underlying cause.

There's a girl at my school who works at Hooters and is a cheerleader. Most people already know, and as far as I know, no one has beef with that.

The school better apologise and put her back on the team if that is the sole reason.