http://dailycamera.com/bdc/city_news/article/0,1713,BDC_2422_3294632,00.html
At the time this was going on I was watching a movie in my room. Gee, I wish I’d known so that I could have gone and flipped an SUV or two.
Also, can’t we find something better to riot over? Like the criminal lack of funding for higher education? Or, I don’t know, ANYTHING besides “Frat party want more beer!”
Holy shit. I just applied to that university too. :eek: :eek: :eek:
Hey, it’s not so bad. Just don’t live near the hill. 
Actually, I love it here, but I’m a grad student so I don’t pay much attention to undergrad life. If you come visit let me know and I’ll show you around.
will do! 
Who the heck names their city Boulder?!??!
Just kidding.
Ahh, thanks for clearing that up.
I just skimmed through this article without reading the link, and I thought it was about some revolting rocks.
:smack: 
Revolting Rocks? Isn’t that the name of Astro’s and Scooby’s favorite industrial band?
http://www.madison.com/wsj/mad/local/index.php?ntid=15157&nt_adsect=edit
Madison, WI had their annual riot too, 3rd year running. Lots of people came just so they could riot. 1/3 of arrests were from out of town. Not as impressive as last year though either.
I’ll have to hide this from my dad. He lived in Boulder in the '70s and remembers it as one of the most beautiful, peaceful little towns on Earth.
I did too.
But it is now neither peaceful nor little. There is still beauty if you can get past the high cost of living, the SUVs and burning couches. Actually, there were always drunken frat boys but they get more publicity now.
Ft Collins (CSU) is not as beautiful and has its own drunken greeks, but IMHO has fewer spoiled brats who lack impulse control.
High cost of living? I’ve been condo/apartment/room hunting on the internet for Boulder lately and it is really cheap compared to either the west or east coast.
Booo! Booooo!!! Stone the punster!!!
I wish I’d thought of it first.
I’ve never lived in a city before, but for what it’s worth, I do enjoy living here a lot. I don’t find it exceptionally more expensive than I did living in New Hampshire.
Bah… the People’s Republic of Boulder you say?
I never go near the place. They aren’t even HUMAN over there. It’s like a whole new subspecies or something…
Oh, gosh, the trustifarians took time out from their busy slacker schedules to have a public tantrum? How awful for them. I’m sure they’ll be consoling themselves at mom and dad’s ski cabin over the weekend.
My opinion of Boulder students may be clouding my response…
Yes. Students from either the west or east coast would indeed find Boulder housing (and perhaps other costs?) reasonable.
Those from Colorado or elsewhere in the midwest know better.
I guess it all depends on what you are used to and what the market will bear, etc.
Some of my bestest friends went to CU.
Don’t mean to needle you, andygirl. I am glad you like living there.
I just think there were, and are, a lot of spoiled brats up there on the Boulder campus.
Entirely true. Fortunately us grad students are too busy studying and being broke to mingle with them.
I went to CU in the 80’s and the annual Halloween riot was… well… an annual tradition.
Except we rioted on the Pearl St. Mall and destroyed storefronts, not frat houses.
Other times, we rioted on campus, protesting CIA recruitment and demading University divestment in apartheid South Africa.
Kinda dates me, eh?
I also remember getting in on the shanty town built in the fountain pool between the Student Union and the Chem building… not as a protest, but so we had a place to sleep while waiting six days in line for Pink Floyd tickets in the middle of, like, February or something. Actually got sixth row for that one!
Ah yes. Good memories, there. Graduated a couple years ago from Boulder. Good school.
No need to worry about the riots, they have reverse-911 calling. This means the police will give you a call to let you know you need to close your windows, 'cause they’re using teargas in your neighborhood to quell a riot. (And no, I ain’t kidding, one of my ex-roommates got one of these calls.)
It was great fun waking up in the middle of the night to find a couch burning in the courtyard of the dorm I was in. During finals week. Again, not kidding.
All that considered, though, it was a good school.
:: checks spelling of quell on dictionary.com. yup, got it right! ::