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epark88 said:
3) From now on: whenever UConn and UMass meet in football, they must play for a hot, steaming vat of bacon-jalepeno mac n' cheese. And by God if this doesn't happen, we're doin' it all wrong...
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Better yet, the losing team has to take the kid back.
 
I really feel for the kid. I hope someone cares enough to give him some tough love, and straighten him out or he is going to have a bigger problem down the road. He looks like he is 13 in the picture, I saw on one of our boards.it is ok for his family to stand do by him but someone has to rein him in and I hope they do.
 
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uconnell said:
I really feel for the kid. I hope someone cares enough to give him some tough love, and straighten him out or he is going to have a bigger problem down the road. He looks like he is 13 in the picture, I saw on one of our boards.it is ok for his family to stand do by him but someone has to rein him in and I hope they do.
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I'm not defending him at all as his behavior was reprehensible but there is something unsettling about this tech age we live in when people can just whip out their phone and videotape you in public (a lot of times without your knowledge) and than go run to a tabloid website to pretty much have it spread on the internet like a wild fire to ruin you for good. When I was in school (15 years ago) this would have been a unfortunate incident, the kid would have been expelled, learned a tough lesson (hopefully) and either straightened out or keep on the same destructive path. Now? He really has no path for this screw up. He's done. More young people have got to realize this. Including the kid who whipped out his phone to film it for 10 minutes and than went running to Barstool instead of stepping in and helping the manager which would have been better for everyone involved.
 
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I really don't understand the concern about it being recorded. Is there any evidence the recorder "ran to the tabloids" rather than just uploading it to youtube and then virality running its normal course?

I've lived my whole life in a world with portable recording technology and managed to never drunkenly assault someone in the middle of a crowded public area. It's not that tough.
 
ASweet3781 said:
I'm not defending him at all as his behavior was reprehensible but there is something unsettling about this tech age we live in when people can just whip out their phone and videotape you in public (a lot of times without your knowledge) and than go run to a tabloid website to pretty much have it spread on the internet like a wild fire to ruin you for good. When I was in school (15 years ago) this would have been a unfortunate incident, the kid would have been expelled, learned a tough lesson (hopefully) and either straightened out or keep on the same destructive path. Now? He really has no path for this screw up. He's done. More young people have got to realize this. Including the kid who whipped out his phone to film it for 10 minutes and than went running to Barstool instead of stepping in and helping the manager which would have been better for everyone involved.
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I hear you but without the video the kid probably isn't expelled and this kid didn't belong at UConn. The kid who recorded the video didn't go to the tabloids, he just posted it on youtube and the rest is history.
 
ASweet3781 said:
I'm not defending him at all as his behavior was reprehensible but there is something very unsettling about this tech age we live in when people can just whip out their phone and videotape you in public (alot of times without your knowledge) and than go run to a tabloid website to pretty much have it spread on the internet like a wild fire to ruin you for good. When I was in school (15 years ago) this would have been a unfortunate incident, the kid would have been expelled, learned a tough lesson (hopefully) and either straightened out or keep on the same destructive path. Now? He really has no option for his screw up. He's done. More young people have got to realize this. Including the kid who whipped out his phone to film it for 10 minutes and than went running to Barstool instead of stepping in and helping the manager which would have been better for everyone involved.
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I disagree. The kid knew he was being filmed and inaccurately predicted that the posting of it would vindicate him.

Several people tried to help the manager and the kid, to no avail, until Chef Hat manned up and took matters into his own hands--literally.

I think that the posting of this could very well end up helping the kid and discouraging countless others. There is no gray area about what happened, no need to play "he said/he said," and no reason to waste valuable school resources and countless peoples' time and money with disciplinary hearings, etc. No reason for his parents to have to choose between believing their child or believing others.

If I had a son I would be using this as a teaching moment about how you treat people, and about the dangers of intoxication. I will probably still go over it with my older daughters to show them what kind of crap they might experience at college and elsewhere, and to engage them in a discussion about what they would do.

There is no stopping the technology. Better to use this as a lesson about living in these times--or any time.
 
Kembacity said:
I can see being embarrassed by the shame this brought to our university, but personally I don't have any of that. Everyone knows there are entitled mushroom caps just about wherever you go, so I was just happy that the video revealed only 1 kid like that. There was no crowd of friends supporting him with awful behavior, there were throngs of nice kids in their UConn gear who didn't want to get into a fight with the kid but didn't want to leave the train wreck either.
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I wouldn't be embarrassed. As you say, there are full on douches wherever you go. That said, you'd hope admissions would have a higher standard of excellence than getting kicked out of another state school for assaulting cops and using racial slurs.
 
4in16 said:
Probably texting friends that they're missing out on what she's witnessing live in the union over mac & cheese.
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Opposite. They're describing this kid swearing left and right about some mac and cheese and she's excited to get this information totally missing events in front of her.
 
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8893 said:
Where was that? Has nothing to do with the younger generation and I haven't seen any comments suggesting that it does.

It has to do with being an arrogant, disrespectful, spoiled jerk, which is a pretty timeless problem that is not unique to any generation. Presumably, the kid learned this behavior from an adult.
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I guess I just assumed it might go in that direction (didn't read much of the thread). Don't disagree with anything you say.
 
Towney,

As a graduate of Springfield College, I'm really shocked at the problems you had as RA. Don't remember things being anyone near that violent during my years (pre John Cena).

It's a different generation of kids and so sad that it has taken such a downward turn for the worse.

BTW, I work at a small college and interact with students on a regular basis. Got to say that no student has ever gone this mad in our dining hall. Maybe our Mac & Cheese ain't that great.

Towney007 said:
I was an RD at Springfield College (had John Cena as a resident actually) - and was an RA there for three years running up. Then I did four years as an RD at another school.

This is called "Thursday, Friday, Saturday night."Kids on my staff dealt with this stuff constantly. I've had drunk parents take a run at me, a Toilet ripped off and thrown at me, had a $50k drug bust, one of my RA's had fireworks thrown in an elevator they were riding in and I got to hold a kid's brain in his head. Those were some highlights. Student disciplinary staffs are completely useless and are/were more worried about trigger warnings or whatever other ancillary BS a kid can use to cop out of whatever turd he or she laid. Gotta pay that tuition bill.

On the whole - loved the fact that I did Res Life. Def. prepared me for life in a way I don't think anything else could have had - not just from dealing with all those shenanigans, but management, cattle herding, dealing with humans and how most really can't get past what's right in front of them in a given moment. Completely and totally invaluable experience. That also being said - I don't miss a second of it.
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Kembacity said:
I am really looking forward to the big-head posters behind the basket of this , don't let me down current students, don't let me down.
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This is definitely something I DON'T want to see. This kid is a disgrace and I don't want him to be associated with our school or basketball team.
 
UChusky916 said:
This is definitely something I DON'T want to see. This kid is a disgrace and I don't want him to be associated with our school or basketball team.
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Well, no problems there. Looks pretty short and unathletic.
 
UChusky916 said:
This is definitely something I DON'T want to see. This kid is a disgrace and I don't want him to be associated with our school or basketball team.
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Stop it. One drunk moron doesn't taint the entire university. There are 100 kids just like him at every major university in the country.
 
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CAHUSKY said:
Stop it. One drunk moron doesn't taint the entire university. There are 100 kids just like him at every major university in the country.
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I've already read more and seen more videos about this kid in the past 2 days than I'd like to in 100 lifetimes. Seeing a sign of his head or a bowl of mac n cheese during basketball games would be utterly ridiculous.

I'm not saying he taints the entire university because I like to think a piece of trash like him is not representative of my alma mater. I hope others agree.
 
UChusky916 said:
I've already read more and seen more videos about this kid in the past 2 days than I'd like to in 100 lifetimes. Seeing a sign of his head or a bowl of mac n cheese during basketball games would be utterly ridiculous.

I'm not saying he taints the entire university because I like to think a piece of trash like him is not representative of my alma mater. I hope others agree.
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Lighten up and use your head, gramps. In no universe is this kid going to become in any way "representsative" of the university, especially in any official sense.
 
Rocktheworld said:
Lighten up and use your head, gramps. In no universe is this kid going to become in any way "representsative" of the university, especially in any official sense.
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Putting his face on a big-head poster as a previous poster suggested is doing exactly that.
 
ASweet3781 said:
I'm not defending him at all as his behavior was reprehensible but there is something unsettling about this tech age we live in when people can just whip out their phone and videotape you in public (a lot of times without your knowledge) and than go run to a tabloid website to pretty much have it spread on the internet like a wild fire to ruin you for good. When I was in school (15 years ago) this would have been a unfortunate incident, the kid would have been expelled, learned a tough lesson (hopefully) and either straightened out or keep on the same destructive path. Now? He really has no path for this screw up. He's done. More young people have got to realize this. Including the kid who whipped out his phone to film it for 10 minutes and than went running to Barstool instead of stepping in and helping the manager which would have been better for everyone involved.
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Than don't act like an a-s. Imagine a society where people take responsibility and are accountable for their actions. Hope it helps him but what an a-s thing to do.
 
UChusky916 said:
Putting his face on a big-head poster as a previous poster suggested is doing exactly that.
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Doing exactly what?

So if I print out a big-head poster of The Colonel, does that mean UConn is represented by KFC?

And let's not ignore the fact that that (i.e. what the poster in question said) is not at all going to actually happen. And if it did, it would be representative of what one idiot student thinks is funny.
 
If his parents focus on his education, they are fools
This kid needs treatment, probably a rehab, and to learn about humility. Sending him to a third college at this time would be a mistake. His best hope (in my opinion) is that he is an alcoholic and that removing booze from his life, that most of the obnoxious goes away with it. However, if it is mostly characterological, treatment would be slow with an even less chance of positive outcome.

Obnoxious as he showed himself. I also feel bad for him in having to be immortalized by social media. His children will likely find this video one day. While I never spit in someone's face or was rude to a worker like this, there are a lot of things that could have haunted me if caught on video.
And we don't throw people away. Especially when they are 19
 
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Rocktheworld said:
Lighten up and use your head, gramps. In no universe is this kid going to become in any way "representsative" of the university, especially in any official sense.
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If you don't stop with the senior references I'm going to make a snide comment about women......... and duck for cover when my wife reads it.
 
fleudslipcon said:
If you don't stop with the senior references I'm going to make a snide comment about women.... and duck for cover when my wife reads it.
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Your wife is a yarder or she polices your account?
 
OkaForPrez said:
Your wife is a yarder or she polices your account?
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She has radar! I could never do a mau mau!

She doesn't come here. But she's a super fan. Probably was more excited than me when I told her we should go to B of A.
 
CAHUSKY said:
Stop it. One drunk moron doesn't taint the entire university. There are 100 kids just like him at every major university in the country.
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'Cuse had three major scandals over 10 years, falsifying academics, payment to athletes and and falsifying drug tests. They survived.

Louisville got hookers for recruits and players. Yes, the university is actually a pimp. They survived.

UNC had a two decade long scheme of playing ineligible players and an institutionalized scheme of academic fraud to cover it up which spanned multiple marquee sports, and they found even more wrong doing and used it as an excuse to delay (evade?) punishment. They will likely survive just by throwing woman's basketball under the bus.

Somehow I think that we'll survive a drunk idiot who really likes his Jalapeno & Bacon Mac and Cheese.
 
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