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econalum · Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 12:19 am Post subject:

Well, the news has reached Europe now, Telegraph newspaper.

Stupidity echoes globally - thanks a lot, dummies.

http://news.google.com/news/story?ncl=dW8KHZvu7UKZ3uMmiDSj0Fgsm27oM&ned=us
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chapter 11 · Junior Joined: 26 Apr 2003 Posts: 304 Location: NYC

It was on the local New York telecast as well. Right after a cruz segment.

Plano Minuteman · Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 12:04 pm Post subject:

ShotPutNC · Junior Joined: 05 Feb 2012 Posts: 633 Location: Amherst

I would not qualify this as a riot. Less than 1% of those in attendance stayed the night in jail and there was no property damage.

InnervisionsUMASS · Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 1:00 pm Post subject:

So, has anyone actually determined if this was a riot or not? By all accounts, it doesn't look like it.
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Berkman · Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 1:08 pm Post subject:

It did not look like it to me either. From what I was able to see on TV it was a bunch of students that would not move out when the police requested it. Then the police sent in some smoke bombs and everyone started running in a lot of directions. I did see an interview with a student that had a cut on his arm from a thrown bottle but that is the only injury I heard about.

eXelwood · Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 2:34 pm Post subject:

My take is this sort of thing happens every weekend after football games at many BCS schools e.g. at the Auburn oak tress that the Bama fan poisoned is regularly the scene for post game gatherings of similar sized crowds.

LS71 · Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 5:54 pm Post subject:

Talk about blowing things out of proportion...

The use of the word "riot" is the cause of the uproar, not what actually happened.

No damage, no injuries...maybe UMass police should have left the horses in the barn.

EBox's post nailed it!
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econalum · Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 1:12 am Post subject:

Our opinions do not echo into the hinterlands, folks.

If the press and others are waiting for UMASS to F*** Up, so be it, but we manage to fit/feed the stereotype often enough it is an intellectually easy story to propound, despite the facts of little/no damage, and 5 of 6 dorm areas quiet. Would diligent reporters drive around campus and see how quiet most of it is, and that SW is a 'place unto itself' - that would be nice, but it is easier to cover the smoke, the crowds, the police - great video - than provide balance.

As a marketing person, perception = reality.

And, once again, despite UM administration admonitions, and Cruz requests, SW dumb asses proved to be just that.

UMASS seems to stand alone in idiocy about what, after all, is a game.

Econ
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InnervisionsUMASS · Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 1:07 pm Post subject:

^

I don't know, I don't think there were any long term effects (other than general police crack down in Amherst) from what happened in 2004. And we got HAMMERED in the press after that. The school has continued to improve academically since then. After a day or two, no one will remember what happened Sunday night.
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LS71 · Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 1:46 pm Post subject:

Academics and what happened Sunday night are mutually exclusive.

If you can't go out and act like a college kid while you're in college, when can you do so?

People need to lighten up.

The media chose to use the word "riot" to sell papers and boost ratings. Embarassed

Econ...I sincerely doubt that UMass stands alone inthe after game celebrations department.

1,500 our of what, over 20,000, kids came out to have some fun...no damage or injuries. Police over reacted and so did the media.

Go UMass!
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ktabz16 · Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 2:15 pm Post subject:

reporters, cameras and police were all there before the students were. the media rewarded the kids by putting them on tv and on the web.

how great would it be if the next time a boston team wins or loses that no students show up in southwest and the police and reporters are left to slink home without the gratification of demonizing our state u or firing tear gas into a crowd.

ShadesOf96and98 · Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 12:28 pm Post subject:

All I will say is that UNH can kiss my ass. They wish they had enough enrolled students and cows to have a riot.

They've certainly tried plenty of times.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=unh+riots&oq=unh+riots&aq=f&aqi=g1&aql=&gs_sm=3&gs_upl=229l2362l0l2546l9l9l0l3l3l1l246l1008l0.4.2l6l0

I mean, nothing says class and dignity like rioting after a presidential election.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmE9La-YPx0
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MikeUMA · Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 1:01 pm Post subject:

One of the kids who got expelled after the Super Bowl disturbance is suing the University.
http://dailycollegian.com/2012/02/21/expelled-student-sues-umass/

Max11 · Junior Joined: 19 Feb 2007 Posts: 260 Location: OH