Good Times!!
Years from now when they’re Starbucks baristas still paying on their student loans they’ll wax fondly about those fun college times.
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In Diogenes day, skateboards and other playthings of youth were left behind about the time a young man began to shave. Now it seems that childhood and immaturity extend well into the bearded years.
Endymions and Peter Pans on a bender…
LD
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You might want to give your snarkmeter a good smack. Or, go follow Josh’s twitter feed, where is riding this “white culture” bit hard, reeling in copious countersnark and greater than his usual troll-baiting bounty. Or hell, just go to the editors blog and see if you can get the drift there. Sheesh.
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I think most everyone thought that Animal House was set either at their own college or at their main rival’s college. Unless they went to one of the service academies or VMI or The Citadel, of course. All I know is that it was filmed in Oregon.
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“Out of town visitors”? Don’t you mean illegal aliens??!!
Nonsense. This has been going on a long time.
Google “Oshkosh Madison Wisconsin Halloween Riot” and get back to me.
Halloween isn’t what it used to be on State Street in Madison, Wisconsin. Last Sunday, the main gathering point for the university town’s annual Halloween bash saw a throng of heavily boozed cross-dressers, walking food products and pop-culture oddities slowly crawling about at almost 1:30 Sunday morning, closing time here. But Molly Kelley, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, pointed at the large unpopulated gaps of littered concrete from a balcony overlooking the seven-block stretch. “Two years ago this place was packed like sardines,” she says. “You couldn’t move. Either you got run over by [police] horses or climbed on light poles.”
Halloween rioting plagued the ritual from 2002 to 2005, replete with tear gas–saturated finales.
Same as it ever was.
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What?! Eighty percent of the white people are dead? Damn, no wonder things have been slow around here lately.
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So, born yesterday were you? College kids can be rascals, and this is nothing extreme.
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My first thoughts: alcohol may have been involved. How could it not?
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“I’ve seen the Future, brother, and it’s murder.” – Leonard Cohen (in 1992)
Welcome to the future.
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If it had been some potent Cannabis instead of beer, vodka and jello shots, I doubt if anything would have happened beyond scarfing down lots of yummy punkin pie.
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You were lucky. I had to get up in the morning at ten o’clock at night, a half hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty nine hours a day down at the mill and pay the mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home our dad would kill us and dance about on our graves singing hallelujah.
But you try to tell the young people of today that, and they won’t believe you.
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“College officials provided few specifics on the melee but said Keene State students and out-of-town visitors were involved.”
That’s fine. So much better to imagine things. Like a good book.
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Violence and booze?
What are the Palins doing in New Hampshire?
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Myself, I blame Pumpkin lattes. “YOU CALL THIS COFFEE!!?? KICK HIS ASS!!”
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Josh’s use of the story in his blog to illustrate the difference between how black violence is reported and white violence it reported was spot on, and for that purpose justifies the use of the article.
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From wikipedia: The screenplay was adapted by Douglas Kenney, Chris Miller, and Harold Ramis from stories written by Miller and published in National Lampoon magazine. The stories were based on Miller’s experiences in the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity at Dartmouth College.
The main screenwriter has said it was based on his frat at Dartmouth, and wrote a memoir about it:
In my school district, you had to live over two miles away before they would give you a bus. If somebody complained, the mayor (who had been there something like 35 years and eventually died in office) would go out and walk it himself. For high school I lived 1.9 miles away.
That’s the problem with Pumpkin Festivals, all the damn riots.