MountainJoe: I wouldn't be surprised to find out the students were lying for two reasons.
1.) These students aren't exactly intelligent; any remotely intelligent person wouldn't have been involved in this, and it's a well-known fact that idiots are more likely to lie than smart people.
2.) Right now the students are looking like the bad guys. If they can convince people that the police used excessive force, then all of a sudden the police are in the wrong and then the students are off the hook and don't have to worry about consequences for their utter stupidity.
Personally I think every single one of the students involved in this event should be expelled. This may seem harsh, but I truly believe anyone dumb enough to think that the library is an appropriate place for a party is never going to benefit from college anyway, and so their is no point in having them enrolled here. I certainly wouldn't mind not having to see and deal with these people every day.
Ah, the joys of people getting what's coming to them. Anyone who was stupid enough to think that the library (outside of it or not) is a wonderful place to hold a party deserved anything that happened. Maybe this will serve as a wake-up call to these 1,000 or so people to use their brains now and then.
I have yet to hear any reliable reports that the police did anything wrong. Certainly any police brutality is inexcusable, but the people accusing the police of that are the same idiots who were at the event to begin with; not exactly trustworthy sources.
If anyone who was at this "party" feels unsafe now, feel free to leave UTC. I certainly wouldn't mind if there were 1,000 less people on campus next year. It's not as if we would be losing the best and the brightest anyway.
As a final note, I feel that this comment posted above is very representative of the mindset of the people who participated in this event: "Its coll, you probably were the ones that would be sitting in the library angry because somebody was disrupting your studying."
Poor spelling and grammar aside, this type of comment is typical of a sociopath, thinking that it is shocking that someone would be upset because he or she was unable to study in a building specifically designed for that purpose. Just as it would be reasonable to be upset if you were unable to watch a movie in a movie theater or unable to eat food at a restaurant, being upset at not being able to study in the library is an expected reaction, not an abnormal one. I'm realize that this is all probably over your head, however.
Summary: When you get this many fratboys (a.k.a. idiots) together, nothing good is going to happen.
Update: Rowdy partygoers Maced outside UTC library
Actually, what makes me the maddest is the fact that people like you go to the same school as me.
Students Maced at UTC
MountainJoe: I wouldn't be surprised to find out the students were lying for two reasons.
1.) These students aren't exactly intelligent; any remotely intelligent person wouldn't have been involved in this, and it's a well-known fact that idiots are more likely to lie than smart people.
2.) Right now the students are looking like the bad guys. If they can convince people that the police used excessive force, then all of a sudden the police are in the wrong and then the students are off the hook and don't have to worry about consequences for their utter stupidity.
Personally I think every single one of the students involved in this event should be expelled. This may seem harsh, but I truly believe anyone dumb enough to think that the library is an appropriate place for a party is never going to benefit from college anyway, and so their is no point in having them enrolled here. I certainly wouldn't mind not having to see and deal with these people every day.
Update: Rowdy partygoers Maced outside UTC library
Ah, the joys of people getting what's coming to them. Anyone who was stupid enough to think that the library (outside of it or not) is a wonderful place to hold a party deserved anything that happened. Maybe this will serve as a wake-up call to these 1,000 or so people to use their brains now and then.
I have yet to hear any reliable reports that the police did anything wrong. Certainly any police brutality is inexcusable, but the people accusing the police of that are the same idiots who were at the event to begin with; not exactly trustworthy sources.
If anyone who was at this "party" feels unsafe now, feel free to leave UTC. I certainly wouldn't mind if there were 1,000 less people on campus next year. It's not as if we would be losing the best and the brightest anyway.
As a final note, I feel that this comment posted above is very representative of the mindset of the people who participated in this event: "Its coll, you probably were the ones that would be sitting in the library angry because somebody was disrupting your studying."
Poor spelling and grammar aside, this type of comment is typical of a sociopath, thinking that it is shocking that someone would be upset because he or she was unable to study in a building specifically designed for that purpose. Just as it would be reasonable to be upset if you were unable to watch a movie in a movie theater or unable to eat food at a restaurant, being upset at not being able to study in the library is an expected reaction, not an abnormal one. I'm realize that this is all probably over your head, however.
Summary: When you get this many fratboys (a.k.a. idiots) together, nothing good is going to happen.
Summary of the summary: People are a problem.