All the people who always said there was something about the college lifestyle that made young people do terrible things have apparently found their culprit.

It’s an Illinette.

Yes, University of Illinois Task Force on Sexual Assault and Violence last week recommended that the school disband its Illinette pompon squad because uniforms the group wears are tight and suggestive, and “project women as sexual objects.”

What we have here is a case good aiming, but missing the target by a mile. Sexual assault and rape are very real and very serious problems, and the task force has wonderful intentions. However, the task force’s recommended solution to the problem is so absurd that it even has the governor of Illinois up in arms.

“It’s foolishness in the extreme to target the pompon girls for extinction because of the sexual problems on campus. I mean that’s crazy,” said Gov. Thompson.

The task force should readjust its sights. A recent survey revealed that 16.4 percent of the school’s female students have experienced a sexual assault. Only 20 percent of the men at U of I are in fraternities, but a whopping 73 percent of the women assaulted say they were assaulted by fraternity members or at fraternity houses.

Now that’s a situation that deserves more investigation.