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[FAIRTIDES]

I know at Texas A and M, I believe that was it, a bon fire got out of control and kids died.

If you live in CT and you know and you cops that have done investigations up there, your view is going to be slanted. If you lived in West Virginia and knew cops who did investigations up at WVU you might feel the same.

The spring parties up at UConn that got out of control were almost like a rite of passage to my understanding. That it got rowdy, and cars were flipped, and cops came in riot gear, should not in any way mean that there is some sinister culture that condones s e x assault on campus. I am sure that is not what you mean, but I am having trouble seeing the connection between rowdy parties and s e x assaults unless your saying there is simply too much drinking going on which I would agree with.

Guys, go into Google or Bing and do a "campus riots, 1960's" search on the Universities of Wisconsin or California (Berkeley) or Columbia and Harvard, or just "1960's campus riots." Student radicals were bombing sh&t. Student riots are as old as time. It's the sexual assaults that are either increasing in frequency or were grossly under reported.

 

[huskyrob1]

Spot on, as a former Fairfield resident, I invite anyone to go to the Sea Grape and hit the keggers on Reef Road and tell me what they see. They are far worse than anything I experienced at CT, because they are morons with money and Daddy will get them out of trouble, at UCONN, we were just morons with no money who had to get our own selves out of trouble, it did tend to limit blantant stupidity.......

Lived in Fairfield all my life, and know Fairfield Univ and the Sea Grape better than most. And as to what Dave Carlson said, the vast majority of the 88 people arrested during the 1998 riots were UCONN students and ALL of those who did jail time as result of the 1998 riots were UCONN students. I mean are you for real? Are you really comparing riots on campus or students being murdered or raped on campus or cars burning on campus to frat party drunkeness or kegs on Reef road on a Friday night? You better pull your head out of where ever it is.

 

[Dave Carlson]

And as to what Dave Carlson said, the vast majority of the 88 people arrested during the 1998 riots were UCONN students and ALL of those who did jail time as result of the 1998 riots were UCONN students.

Well, not sayeth the newspaper of record:

http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/28/nyregion/police-and-uconn-students-trade-charges-after-melee.html

It took me less than three seconds to find this via a website called google, which is free and works almost everywhere in the world.

 

[Husky25]

Lived in Fairfield all my life, and know Fairfield Univ and the Sea Grape better than most. And as to what Dave Carlson said, the vast majority of the 88 people arrested during the 1998 riots were UCONN students and ALL of those who did jail time as result of the 1998 riots were UCONN students. I mean are you for real? Are you really comparing riots on campus or students being murdered or raped on campus or cars burning on campus to frat party drunkeness or kegs on Reef road on a Friday night? You better pull your head out of where ever it is.

I was at UConn for the riot that year. I was a Junior. I was not at X-Lot, You know why? I made the conscious choice not to go down there. I didn't want to jeopardize the potential full-time job to which my internship would lead. At the end of the day we are all responsible for our own actions. It was no secret that X-Lot was the scene of potentially riotous behavior during Spring Weekend. It's happened for years before and happened for a time subsequent. But it's not like people were dragged there kicking a screaming and forced to tip over a car. Drugs and alcohol definitely played its part, but most students were sober at one point or another during the day. Students made the conscious decision to imbibe. After (and including) that there are repercussions to every subsequent personal decision. Decisions on safety vs. risk are made every day. The setting in which they are made does not change that one iota.

 

[weyuo]

So you believe the Police Chief was lying.

My beef is that why is it easier for guys like you to take a shot at somebody that had absolutely nothing to do with the incident in the first place? I'll bet P was either snug in his bed with his wife or... studying game film/making a plan/doing something football related yet you want to drag the guy into some alleged incident he was no where near. If you decide to go take a leak on the sidewalk is it your bosses fault? Why don't you grow some balls and go after the people that were actually, allegedly involved. Why don't you...... because like most sheep you follow the latest trend and that would happen to be pissing on Coach P even though the guy probably wasn't even in the same county at the time. Like I said...grow up!!

And before everyone gets all sanctimonious I ask why is the coach put on the spot in this matter in the first place? He's not any of these kids parents. He's not the president of the school or the AD. The guy can't follow 80+ kids around the state all day, every day. So "IF" one of them screws up or even worse, is merely accused of screwing up why does it fall on the guy that's in charge of them playing football? His job is to get them to play F-O-O-T-B-A-L-L!! Not be the next pope, Nobel Prize winner or summa cum laude.

 

[CL82]

I keep posting links that show how UConn has dealt with this stuff in the past. It's been pretty bad,. But people just keep ignoring things.

I haven't see the links, but given what we know about this case so far, I don't see any misfeasance or malfeasance.

 

[Adesmar123]

My beef is that why is it easier for guys like you to take a shot at somebody that had absolutely nothing to do with the incident in the first place? I'll bet P was either snug in his bed with his wife or... studying game film/making a plan/doing something football related yet you want to drag the guy into some alleged incident he was no where near. If you decide to go take a leak on the sidewalk is it your bosses fault? Why don't you grow some balls and go after the people that were actually, allegedly involved. Why don't you...... because like most sheep you follow the latest trend and that would happen to be pissing on Coach P even though the guy probably wasn't even in the same county at the time. Like I said...grow up!!

And before everyone gets all sanctimonious I ask why is the coach put on the spot in this matter in the first place? He's not any of these kids parents. He's not the president of the school or the AD. The guy can't follow 80+ kids around the state all day, every day. So "IF" one of them screws up or even worse, is merely accused of screwing up why does it fall on the guy that's in charge of them playing football? His job is to get them to play F-O-O-T-B-A-L-L!! Not be the next pope, Nobel Prize winner or summa cum laude.

So you believe the Police Chief lied?

 

[huskymedic]

So you believe the Police Chief lied?

Semantics... http://touch.courant.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-78088606/

 

[husky91]

I think Boyle is the worst QB I can ever remember watching at any level.