[QUOTE=ZebraShaSha]
Why are you acting all high and mighty? You’re just as guiltly as them. In fact, I would say you are in denile.
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I believe I will need to take your warning seriously. I had a vision of the moderators coming down on me for improper levity in the Pit, represented as two Sherman tanks pursuing me as if in a nightmare. I consider that due warning, a two-tank omen. :eek:
[QUOTE=silenus]
The rest of the group arrived safely. Either they were infiltrated, or the combination of booze, hookers and free thought…
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Due to a misunderstanding they went to Boston looking for hookahs.
[QUOTE=Chotii]
I just don’t understand this: these guys all come in (together? That’s implied) to specifically go to the University of Montana. I won’t assume they all knew each other, because I was an exchange student myself once (went through the Rotary - maybe university exchanges are different). Presumably, each had an itinerary, pre-purchased tickets to arrive there, and a place they were expected - presumably in Montana. Yet they did not follow their itineraries, did not use their tickets, did not check in, and did not apparently provide any method by which they could be contacted (cell phone? Emergency contact numbers?)
How long were they missing? How did they get scattered so widely without using ANY traceable funds at all? How did they afford to travel that distance at all, without cars, or traceable funds with which to buy tickets on public transportation?
As I say, I was an exchange student. If I had gone missing, the Rotary would have been in touch with my hometown Rotary very rapidly. I had very strict rules I was expected to follow (I didn’t follow them, but neither did I take off for parts unknown and vanish into society).
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Tons of students end up enrolling at a different institution than the one that issued their required visa documentation. They may have just used whichever school’s documentation arrived at their houses first to show at their visa appointments. They are supposed to show up at the school that issued their I-20 first and request a transfer, but lots of times they don’t, and that doesn’t mean they are terrorists. Many foreign cell phones don’t work in the U.S., if these students even had cell phones to begin with (not everyone does, you know). It’s been years since I took Amtrak or Greyhound, but I don’t recall even having to show ID to walk up to the window and buy a ticket, and it’s simple enough to pay in cash. Many societies are much more cash-based than the U.S. is. Even when I was a student in Spain, I used cash for everything - many places didn’t acept credit cards or checks. I paid my monthly rent in cash.
But most importantly, the vast majority of the hundreds of thousands of foreign students at U.S. universities aren’t in the U.S. on any kind of organized exchange program; they enroll directly with the university. Nobody is babysitting them and planning every detail of their activities, as is the case with Rotary exchanges and that sort of thing. They are just like American college students, except that they aren’t American. We don’t implant radio chips in their necks - yet.
Thousands of foreign students overstay their visas every year, and the vast majority of them (yes, even the Middle Eastern ones) aren’t terrorists. Let’s not panic, OK?
[QUOTE=UncleBeer]
There’s nobody currently employed there that’s going to be running for elective office in 2008.
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Since when did not winning elections stop anyone?
[QUOTE=Chotii]
Presumably, each had an itinerary, pre-purchased tickets to arrive there, and a place they were expected - presumably in Montana. Yet they did not follow their itineraries, did not use their tickets, did not check in, and did not apparently provide any method by which they could be contacted (cell phone? Emergency contact numbers?)
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No, you want to know what’s fucked up? The fact that people can literally turn themselves in after hearing that they’re wanted on the news and people like you will still think that something’s fishy based upon random presumption and simply because they’re from the Middle East.
The racist society that we’re becoming is the fucked up trend upon display in this thread.