I go home for one weekend, just one weekend, to see my sister graduate and this is what I miss. I was even invited to party and would have been there, getting shot and all :rolleyes: . In hindsight I suppose it’s probably best I wasn’t there, but it still would have made a great story to tell the girls/grandkids/future employers. To call it a riot is probably too strong of a word, but seeing as this is a tech school where events like this doesn’t usually happen, and the police were using tear gas and K-9 units, I feel it becomes something more than just a scuffle.
Of course we now have the wonderful students saying the police used excessive force (which may or may not be true) and that their right to peaceably assemble was violated. Now, IANAL, but I’m pretty sure when you start throwing beer bottles at cops you are no longer peaceable. It should be pretty interesting to see how this all plays out and to see what policies are changed. Student moral is already pretty low so this is either going to make it a whole lot higher, or a whole lot lower, depending on the actions of the administration, a.k.a. The Man.
Well that’s my short post, I would say more but I’m afraid I might have to respond and lose my unofficial title of lowest posts per day ratio of an active member
Heh… there’s a comment in that article about ‘busting up a beer bash’, and what was one of the ads next to it?
One for ‘Marketview Liquor’.
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When MSU had their little rioting problem a few years ago, what confounded me was the insistence of some people that because one is a student, that makes criminal behavior like tipping over cars, burning sofas, and destroying other personal property nothing more than simple “mischief.” See, if you’re probably going to hold down a respectable job someday, that makes vandalism and violence good clean fun! It’s sowing wild oats! It’s “school spirit!”
Um, no it isn’t. Destroying property is destroying property whether you’re some dropout rolling with an urban gang, or some jackass who is vice president of the local Sigma Nu chapter. It’s still a crime.
Here’s how brilliant I am: upon glancing (I stress glancing!) over the “Who’s Who” of arrestees, I kept wondering who this “Henrietta” was that kept getting into so much trouble and why didn’t they list her last name? :rolleyes: Woo Hoo! Henrietta’s a bad-ass!
But I’m all better now.
