Campus Celebrations Went a Little Too Far

[Blue Huskie]

This is practically nothing. Hopefully no one got hurt.

I doubt the owner of that car shares your sentiment.

 

[ecasadoSBU]

Seriously, hope this kid is okay.

Mob mentality when it takes over its dangerous. As bad as it looks... these are handful of bad students. Most kids were not part of it but obviously none of them are gonna try to get involved to stop it either

 

[HuskyHawk]

Let's let young people be stupid, our generations were flat out morons. Young people today already have way too big of a microscope on them as it is.

Stupid enough to take down a lamppost and use it as a battering ram to get into the student union?

This is what I'm talking about. Why wasn't it open already? Good Lord UConn, use your brains. I wish the old ROTC hanger or Memorial was still on Campus. You open that up, maybe have a DJ and turn it into a party. You have to plan for this. Need to contain the worst by turning a blind eye to the little things.

WATCH: Kansas' victory prompts KU students to hit the street for wild celebrations after national title win

Celebratory mayhem came to the streets of Lawrence after the Jayhawks' title win on Monday

www.cbssports.com

 

[superjohn]

There is plenty of opportunity to be stupid without destroying your own schools property because you are happy your team won a title.

Pointless. And doubly dumb because they film themselves doing it! Want to be dumb? Do some drugs and hurt yourself not the school, skip classes, drive to Guatemala instead of midterms . Whatever . Destroying the property of the school your parents pay for or you pay for yourself via loans that will have you in debt for next 30 years is ridiculous.

I’m all for kids making mistakes. That’s how you learn. Young people are young people, I do t feel any worse for them than any other generation before them . Every successive generation has challenges the previous Havent faced. ( except boomers, boomers suck ;-)

It never makes sense destroying your own neighborhood for whatever reasons but people have done it forever and will continue to do it.

Young people/college students have always been stupid, I say we continue to let them be stupid. I find this generation to be more tame overall than previous generations.

 

[Greedo]

It's dumb. UConn needs to find a way to provide a better outlet. The lack of a clear celebration point on campus is a problem.

Lawrence does a good job with KU, blocks off the main street to cars, and the cops ask no questions about what's in a Solo Cup (but no bottles or cans). The result is everybody gets to celebrate and go a little crazy without breaking stuff.

In 2011 they had a massive stage with a DJ and light shows. It was a huge party. There was still destruction.

 

[Sick Puppy]

We once started a bonfire in the Fraternity Quad just so we could steel the fire truck.

 

[CTBasketball]

There is plenty of opportunity to be stupid without destroying your own schools property because you are happy your team won a title.

Pointless. And doubly dumb because they film themselves doing it! Want to be dumb? Do some drugs and hurt yourself not the school, skip classes, drive to Guatemala instead of midterms . Whatever . Destroying the property of the school your parents pay for or you pay for yourself via loans that will have you in debt for next 30 years is ridiculous.

I’m all for kids making mistakes. That’s how you learn. Young people are young people, I dont feel any worse ( or better) for them than any other generation before them . Every successive generation has challenges the previous Havent faced. ( except boomers, boomers suck ;-)

Oh I agree.

I was in line for BBQ in Houston on Sunday, started talking to these two middle aged guys about the Dead and how Englishtown 77’ was one of their first shows (shout out Englishtown 77’ Eyes and Estimated Prophet). Said he was dehydrated from all the booze so he started drinking the LSD-stuffed kool-aid getting passed around. That sounds like fun.

And then he went home, built a treehouse for his kid next to the river in his backyard, and used it so he could trip balls with his buddies to escape when his wife had friends over for setback.

Now that’s safe fun!

 

[ecasadoSBU]

There is plenty of opportunity to be stupid without destroying your own schools property because you are happy your team won a title.

Pointless. And doubly dumb because they film themselves doing it! Want to be dumb? Do some drugs and hurt yourself not the school, skip classes, drive to Guatemala instead of midterms . Whatever . Destroying the property of the school your parents pay for or you pay for yourself via loans that will have you in debt for next 30 years is ridiculous.

I’m all for kids making mistakes. That’s how you learn. Young people are young people, I dont feel any worse ( or better) for them than any other generation before them . Every successive generation has challenges the previous Havent faced. ( except boomers, boomers suck ;-)

This happens in the general population too. Must be something wicked in the mind. why is it that every-time there are national championships (pro/college) there are always these riot situations? not just in the USA, but internationally also. I really don't get it either.

But I think it has something do with mob mentality. Its like people feel more entitled to break the rules when they are part of a group. There is nothing else that I can think of that can explain this crazy behavior. Ofcourse - add the booze and drugs and its a time bomb

 

[Spaceman213J]

That’s it? Hell when I was there we burned half the furniture in the Jungle.

I remember I had a teacher in high school telling us how one night he was walking back to his dorm, the Jungle, and a couch that had been set on fire landed about 20 feet away from him. One of my friends asked why the students did that and he just replied, "It was a Saturday night."

 

[REB1094]

The older we get, the less patience we have for these things. But for those that were lucky enough to experience a championship as a student, we saw similar (or worse) things. I don't think it is reasonable to expect a group of 10,000 drunk 18-22 year old students to all celebrate safely and then go home right after the game.

That said, people did get hospitalized with injuries. Of course nobody appreciates ripping down lamp posts and using them as battering rams through campus buildings, but I feel like we can brush those off as business expenses. People getting sent to the hospital is more serious, and I hope everyone is alright

 

[wingsfan055]

New generation is too soft. I remember being on campus during celebrations and the players themselves were throwing furniture into huge fires in the Jungle. I believe the players with the fans tried to throw a Pac Man arcade machine into the fire when they won the NIT. LoL.

 

[Dove]

Good thing no one had any jalapeño Mac and cheese.

Bacon jalapeño Mac and cheese.

 

[August_West]

For an NIT win when I was there.

I was in Fairfield dorm. the decrepit love seat my grandmother gave me that we hauled up so many stairs was in that fire. I screamed how stupid that was then when my floor tossed it off roof. We all had memories on it ;-) …..

It never makes sense destroying your own neighborhood for whatever reasons but people have done it forever and will continue to do it.

Young people/college students have always been stupid, I say we continue to let them be stupid. I find this generation to be more tame overall than previous generations.

They aren’t. Unless you haven’t been paying attention to the spring break shutdowns/curfews in Florida . ( forget Mexico, that’s a death wish)

Listen. I was a wild kid in 80s and early 90’s . Not violent but wild. But I figure it’s karma that I have a 21.5 year old daughter and a 0.5 year old daughter. I was dumb but never stupid. Does that make sense? I can’t believe I even need to think about this still! What I’m seeing now is dumb AND stupid. Doesn’t need to be.

 

[superjohn]

I was in Fairfield dorm. the decrepit love seat my grandmother gave me that we hauled up so many stairs was in that fire. I screamed how stupid that was then when my floor tossed it off roof. We all had memories on it ;-) …..

They aren’t. Unless you haven’t been paying attention to the spring break shutdowns/curfews in Florida . ( forget Mexico, that’s a death wish)

Listen. I was a wild kid in 80s and early 90’s . Not violent but wild. But I figure it’s karma that I have a 21.5 year old daughter and a 0.5 year old daughter. I was dumb but never stupid. Does that make sense? I can’t believe I even need to think about this still! What I’m seeing now is dumb AND stupid. Doesn’t need to be.

What I've seen here is really tame compared to '99. I was there with the flipped over cars and people throwing beer bottles at the cops in riot gear. I never partook in the destruction and violent type stuff but it was a feature in my college days. Most of the people doing the really dumb destructive stuff back then were young people who weren't students. As for Florida, it's college kids doing dumb stuff during the day but the truly violent criminal stuff at night is violent criminals using spring break as an opportunity. Those aren't college kids.

 

[Scrutineer]

We did that for the NIT win!

I guess you have to start somewhere............

 

[phillionaire]

Because those dopes film each other doing it for tiktok

 

[InTheRed]

Can you all stop clutching your pearls and let the students be students like every class got to in 2014, 2011, 2004, and 1999?

Next title i am stopping by your house and flipping your car and breaking down the door to your house. If you dont like that then tell me what the difference here is.

 

[husky429]

Because those dopes film each other doing it for tiktok

I swear it's worse in K-12. The amount of crap kids do off-campus that gets reported to us is staggering. fights, drugs, vaping, speeding in cars, vandalism, all of it. There is a sizeable proportion of kids that just don't begin to register than filming crimes is a bad thing.

Sometimes it's helpful--things like bullying that effect the school... but do I really need to know if little Johnny has a vape and posted a video of it? Absolutely not. That's his parents' job to deal with.

 

[Scrutineer]

It's dumb. UConn needs to find a way to provide a better outlet. The lack of a clear celebration point on campus is a problem.

Lawrence does a good job with KU, blocks off the main street to cars, and the cops ask no questions about what's in a Solo Cup (but no bottles or cans). The result is everybody gets to celebrate and go a little crazy without breaking stuff.

But Lawrence also typically has a lot more time between Championships to plan for such celebrations..............

 

[Fairfield_1st]

That’s it? Hell when I was there we burned half the furniture in the Jungle.

I was in Fairfield Dorm for the NIT win. We did have a fire, but we burned our own couch. not UConn property.

 

[Fairfield_1st]

Good thing they memorialized it on video. It'll make their prosecution and subsequent expulsion easier.

I said to my freshman son that it's hard to imagine a generation that takes pictures and videos of everything would be so stupid as to do something like what's in the video and think they're getting away with it.

 

[husky8273]

in 1979 there was much greater damage when they converted Stowe from an all male dorm to a coed one. A lot of folks got thrown off campus but am not sure anyone was arrested

 

[McLovin]

It's dumb. UConn needs to find a way to provide a better outlet. The lack of a clear celebration point on campus is a problem.

Lawrence does a good job with KU, blocks off the main street to cars, and the cops ask no questions about what's in a Solo Cup (but no bottles or cans). The result is everybody gets to celebrate and go a little crazy without breaking stuff.

In 2014 they had a “block party” outside the student union with a DJ and everything after the victory. Was actually a lot of fun. But a light pole still came down and went through a window in the business school or one of the nearby buildings…

 

[J187Money]

After "the shot" in 1990 - remember driving around campus and there was a guy with a cardboard sign that said "drink beer and wreck stuff" - that would have gone viral had the internet existed LMAO

It is stupid and I never partook but to the extent nobody got seriously hurt and damage was minor just need to move on.

 

[J187Money]

this is the most significant change - the kids with the light pole are screwed. RAs never had videos back in the day........

I spent most of the time inventing stories to keep my residents out of trouble. Thank got there was no video.

 

[CL82]

in 1979 there was much greater damage when they converted Stowe from an all male dorm to a coed one. A lot of folks got thrown off campus but am not sure anyone was arrested

Sort of. The guys in Stowe did burn dorm furniture, but they actually signed an agreement to all be equally responsible for the cost of replacing it. Which isn’t to say they weren’t idiots. I can remember a big, heavy steel trashcan, coming out the window and landing within 10 feet of a bunch of people walking by. It was done in protest over the school, making Stowe coed but, nobody tore down lamp posts, and nobody smashed the door into the student union.

But as a lot of people have pointed out, it’s absolute idiocy to vandalize a public building in front of 1000 people who all have their cell phone out and are filming you.

 

[Steve UConn72]

Yeah, not a good look

Lock 'em up; kick 'em out. Won't happen again.

 

[Demo Square]

Lightweights! At Northwest Frats in the 60's, we enjoyed had a festive & dangerous 'lounge furniture bonfire' every weekend, until it was all gone.

Of course, my memories of those times & of school daze are very fleeting & incomplete. The popular & operative phrase most often being, "Wanna Bong?" Ha!



Don't worry boys, you can finish up at Southern!

 

[HuskyDogArt]

My wife arrived on campus early this morning and saw some unfortunate signs of vandalism. Never understood the violent reaction to celebrating, just be happy. Guess there is much more damage at the Student Union with broken windows, doors, etc. View attachment 86793View attachment 86794

I heard they took down a lamppost and used it to break windows at the student union. Really, what did that do? In the picture a car is flipped over, why do you need to flip over a car. Is it yours?

 

[HuskyDogArt]

It is a campus of 18,500 undergrads, almost half of whom are young men, a group not typically known for good judgement or self-control. There are going to be some DBs in that group.

That is true, when I worked for an Office Supply Store in Newington, back in 1994, I had a co worker who was a student at UConn and he was talking about the bonfires he went to on campus and burning couches and bedding.

I told him that he is going to die young because of his partying, burning things at campus and that his parents will be burying him. Of course, that day, he watched a self service shopper (a shoplifter) walked out the door with a Dell Computer - and I help the shoplifter when I was going into the store, telling him thanks for shopping with us. By the time the manager (not the kid) told me he stole the computer, he was long gone. He parked his car at the side of Route 9 and then he either went 84 west, 84 east or somewhere else. He was telling me about his day off (which was getting drunk and being at a bonfire where they burned a sofa). After work, I had a week off and when I came back, my manager told me that he died, fell asleep driving and drove under a parked semitrailer.