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erieangel -> Penn State students riot (11/10/2011 6:04:48 PM)
This is reprehensible. Where are the police in this, which is clearly a riot? Is there by any chance an Occupy movement in State College, PA which the police need to harass? http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/729056/watch_penn_state_rioters_topple_a_news_van%3B_how_would_the_police_react_if_ows_did_that/#paragraph3 And then there is this: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/11/10/penn-state-students-flood-streets-after-firing-paterno/ What gets me in a lather is that we have fostered a culture in which football is more important than learning, even in centers of higher learning.

tazzygirl -> RE: Penn State students riot (11/10/2011 6:06:36 PM)
How is this political?

willbeurdaddy -> RE: Penn State students riot (11/10/2011 6:07:38 PM)
Hint: It would be the same unthinking idiots at an OPS protest.

Hillwilliam -> RE: Penn State students riot (11/10/2011 6:07:42 PM)
I'm only surprised that the usual suspects here and on a certain network named after a small canine havent taken the vids and rebranded them as OWS people.

tazzygirl -> RE: Penn State students riot (11/10/2011 6:18:16 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: willbeurdaddy Hint: It would be the same unthinking idiots at an OPS protest. Prove a link between the students at Penn and the OWS. Then prove they are doing this as a political protest.

erieangel -> RE: Penn State students riot (11/10/2011 6:18:27 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: tazzygirl How is this political? This is the politics and religion forum. For some, football is a religion.

popeye1250 -> RE: Penn State students riot (11/10/2011 6:26:18 PM)
Many years ago I worked with a guy who was a history major in college and played on the football team. One time I asked him what the Magna Carta was all about and he said, "Never heard of it, I played football in college." Lol, a history major.

erieangel -> RE: Penn State students riot (11/10/2011 6:28:16 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: popeye1250 Many years ago I worked with a guy who was a history major in college and played on the football team. One time I asked him what the Magna Carta was all about and he said, "Never heard of it, I played football in college." Lol, a history major. That is exactly my point.

willbeurdaddy -> RE: Penn State students riot (11/10/2011 6:31:56 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: erieangel quote: ORIGINAL: popeye1250 Many years ago I worked with a guy who was a history major in college and played on the football team. One time I asked him what the Magna Carta was all about and he said, "Never heard of it, I played football in college." Lol, a history major. That is exactly my point. Not the same point at all, though they are both correct.

erieangel -> RE: Penn State students riot (11/10/2011 6:37:37 PM)
It was my point. Pops simply gave an antidote to my claim that football is much more important on many college campuses than actual learning. And America has fostered that culture of importance.

willbeurdaddy -> RE: Penn State students riot (11/10/2011 6:46:49 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: erieangel It was my point. Pops simply gave an antidote to my claim that football is much more important on many college campuses than actual learning. And America has fostered that culture of importance. An antidote? Hope you werent dying from it. And the "football is a religion" line usually refers to the fans and donors, not the players.

Lucylastic -> RE: Penn State students riot (11/10/2011 6:57:05 PM)
wheres all the outcry about the violence and rioting?

littlewonder -> RE: Penn State students riot (11/10/2011 7:49:34 PM)
gotta keep in mind these are the same students who riot through the town when they win a game, setting couches alight that the fraternities have sitting on their stoops and overturning cars and who riot once a year during the arts festival because they all get drunk and go through the town throwing things through windows. I kid you not.

Iamsemisweet -> RE: Penn State students riot (11/10/2011 8:59:11 PM)
God, I loved college. Good times. quote: ORIGINAL: littlewonder gotta keep in mind these are the same students who riot through the town when they win a game, setting couches alight that the fraternities have sitting on their stoops and overturning cars and who riot once a year during the arts festival because they all get drunk and go through the town throwing things through windows. I kid you not.

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