Discussion for article #229002
It’s so sad to see our college students so disaffected and turned off from society that their idea of fun is this sort of thing. Why are we letting our future look like this to our kids?
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Here’s a link to the campus police scanner Keen State College
“People just got too drunk.”
Well, there you go.
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This is worthy of being an item on TPM? A bunch of drunken college students (which is redundant) act like drunken college students. Why am I not surprised?
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Sarah Palin’s feral family strikes again??
Nah … the last place you’d ever find her kids is at a college.
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Skateboarding is not a crime. But throwing skateboards at cops is. It’s also kind of hilarious in a cartoonish generational self-parody way. Life is interesting.
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Thugs and animals all of them!
Where are their community leaders standing up and denouncing this behavior?!?
The fact that 80% of white people are killed by other white people shows they have no respect or decency as it is. Why are we surprised by this.
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Somehow, I never pictured Animal House as being set in New Hampshire.
How shocking. This generation of college students is just like the last, which was just like the one before. Whatever is to become of the country?
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TPM paid for its AP feed, so it might as well use it. Besides, it’s Saturday night and there won’t be anything else until there’s something to report from John McCain or Lindsey Graham from the Sunday talk shows.
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They’ll riot and protest over beer, football, pumpkins, and criticism of their video games, but not only won’t they take to the streets to protest increasing societal inequity, they ridicule those who do and call them the worst insult they can think of: “Social Justice Warriors” - as if that’s a bad thing.
Who would have thought that raising kids with 1000 channels and broadband and Xbox in their bedrooms and cells with unlimited data plans and $200-a-week allowances would turn them into narcissists with short attention spans, a need for instant gratification and a massive sense of entitlement.
Shocking.
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The event is huge I live about 20 minutes away in Brattelboro VT. I drove by that area yesterday around 7:30 AM on my way to work. Dozens of people where already camped out in RV’s in fields nearby,and the traffic was already getting congested. It is supposed a fun day for kids and families. I had no idea this would happen. I am glad I missed it.
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Not like in your day I’m sure, when you had to walk in the snow at least two miles everywhere, even if it were just to the out-house GET OFF MY LAWN!
Joking aside, there still is a sizable chunk of university students that don’t act like this, and still do take to legitimate causes. They just don’t grab the headlines much.
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Can’t you see the two of them getting up early, preparing their Sunday morning blatherings; Uncle John yelling at his wife, “where’s my Polident!”, while Lindsay is preening and carefully deciding on the perfect bow tie. Gotta love it.
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I always miss the fun.
I don’t recall ever walking TO school in the snow, but I came home several times in snow that started such that we were released early.
Don’t recall ever having to walk more than 3/4 mile.
And so it goes.
We deplore the actions of those whose only purpose was to cause mayhem
How do you tell the drunken pumpkin tossers from the Republicans and media?
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If all these punks were black the cops wouldn’t have stopped with tear gas and Fox News would be working itself into an apocalyptic lather about “those people” who deserved to get shot by police. Since the participants were all white, it’s just kids letting off some steam and there will be nary a mention of it on Bill O’Reilly and Hannity except insofar as they can blame Obama for it.
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Relax. It’s been that way for a long time:
“Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.”
– Socrates (misattributed; actually from Aristophanes’ Clouds, a play parodying Socrates)
“I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words… When I was young, we were taught to be discreet and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly disrespectful and impatient of restraint.”
– Hesiod (also misattributed)
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This is exactly the situation in Madison before 2006. By the end of Halloween, State St. was full of fires, arrests and businesses broken into and looted. The city started selling tickets to Freakfest, a paid event that turned State St. into a secure venue. It has lead to constructive policing, few arrests and a lot of fun for students.