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PROVO — Managers of the student newspaper at Brigham Young University pulled an advertisement after numerous complaints that it was too offensive for the conservative campus. Chad Ramos, who capitalizes on 'Mormon speak' in order to sell T-shirts, is surprised — but not particularly disappointed — at the furor at BYU over his 'I can't' T-shirts. Students, professors and administrators felt the slogan implied wearers wished they could drink, smoke or have casual sex but were prevented only because they are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Many also felt the female modeling the shirt in the ad struck an overly provocative pose. Both objections surprised the shirt's creator, Utah Valley State College student Chad Ramos. He grew up in Las Vegas and said the phrase served him well when peers asked him to drink or smoke while he went to high school in an area with a large LDS population. 'I found if I told people I didn't drink, they didn't know how to react,' he said, 'but if I said, I can't, I'm Mormon, they said, 'Oh,' and boom, it was over.' So Ramos was stunned by the backlash at BYU...
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