The Red Ranger and Scott Stripper bring laughs to studying students, go viral
Hufsa Tahir
Staff Writer
@excalweb
Last week, two separate performances took place at York: a special appearance by the Red Power Ranger in a kinesiology classroom and a male stripper in Scott Library.
In a Wednesday morning class, Jagbir Singh stood up in the middle of a KINE 1020 lecture to answer his ringing phone with “I’m on my way!” and tore off his white jacket to reveal a red Power Ranger costume underneath. He pulled on a matching mask and ran out of the lecture hall, after pausing to put on his shoes, to loud applause.
The very next day, Rene Escobar, a fourth-year criminology student, marched into a ground-floor room in Scott Library, set his phone—blaring dance music—on the ground beside him, and broke into a striptease routine, even momentarily getting up on a table.
When asked what prompted him into doing it, Escobar says, “I’ve gone to that room in Scott Library before and it’s really quiet, with everyone focusing on their 2,000-word essays. I just wanted to put a smile on people’s faces.”
York, he points out, isn’t exactly known as a party school.
The two original videos of both these performances have swept across Facebook and Youtube in the few days since, with “The Red Ranger” at around 11,200 views and “Male Stripper Invades York University” at around 6,300 views.
The most amusing thing, however, is the short span of time between both. Call it an exam season symptom, but the general response has been fairly positive.
“I think it’s a part of university life,” says Jordan Fisher, a fourth-year economics student. “Even if they did disrupt a classroom or a library, university is about more than sitting in a lecture.”
As the interview with Escobar ended, he hinted that there might be another show sometime this week in Scott Library.
