SFHoya99
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Post by SFHoya99 on Aug 1, 2005 14:37:15 GMT -5
The world well knows what trouble college park students can cause, LBPop. Maybe a bit too well. Buffalo, I sincerely hope your senior week was good. 1999 was spectacular, but generated a few too many complaints, and so the class of 2000 and 2001 were inferior, according to friends who attended both.
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Post by LBPop on Aug 1, 2005 16:49:46 GMT -5
The world well knows what trouble college park students can cause, LBPop. Maybe a bit too well. OOPS! I really wasn't thinking about that obnoxious stuff of the past several years. I was personally angered and embarrassed by it all. I'm referring back to the late 60's/early 70's. Our teams weren't good enough to get us that worked up, but we still were able to create much more tame and much more imaginative trouble. ;D
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Post by SFHoya99 on Aug 1, 2005 20:51:41 GMT -5
I was just giving you a bit of grief. I've got a bit of a theory, and maybe you can shed some knowledge on it. As time has passed, the rules regarding partying have gotten much stricter. For example, both at GU and at UMD and campuses everywhere, things were done in the 60s/70s that were at least ignored by the admin that never would be now. I'm not sure what happened first, but the rules got stricter and people started stepping further and further over the line. Seems today a small group of idiots do some really bad stuff, but in general, universities tend to be a bit tamer than back then.
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Post by LBPop on Aug 2, 2005 12:16:51 GMT -5
I've got a bit of a theory, and maybe you can shed some knowledge on it. As time has passed, the rules regarding partying have gotten much stricter. For example, both at GU and at UMD and campuses everywhere, things were done in the 60s/70s that were at least ignored by the admin that never would be now. I'm not sure what happened first, but the rules got stricter and people started stepping further and further over the line. Seems today a small group of idiots do some really bad stuff, but in general, universities tend to be a bit tamer than back then. As a "child" of the 60's and a Dad, I kind of see it the other way. It's difficult to compare discipline from different generations. Each one presents new issues that the prior generation never had to confront. For example, alcohol was the primary drug of concern in the late 60's and MD had a dry campus. If you were caught with a beer, you could be tossed. Marijuana was just becoming prevalent and the authorities hadn't really noticed yet. Now, as a Dad, I have had to deal with so much more and it happens so much sooner. My personal take is that if institutional discipline has stepped up, it's simply to fill the void left by the parents who were either overwhelmed or didn't care enough to enforce guidelines while the kids were home. Whew. I apologize to all for having gotten so intense under a thread entitled, "The Turf is Down". It's all your fault!
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Post by SFHoya99 on Aug 2, 2005 13:42:00 GMT -5
Thanks for the POV...now back to our regularly scheduled thread...
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