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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2007 19:03:08 GMT -5
I miss the days when the "greatest generation" was in charge. At least they had a sense of humor, drank at work and had much more interesting stories to tell. "Mad Men" is the best show on TV. And quite the interesting take on Baby Boomers. Can't say I disagree.
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Post by StPetersburgHoya (Inactive) on Sept 4, 2007 20:10:10 GMT -5
I would love to engage in some high risk beer playing games during homecoming. What would DPS do? Can we organize something with Board members? I call first table.
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Post by hoyatables on Sept 8, 2007 7:02:55 GMT -5
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Post by FormerHoya on Sept 8, 2007 11:14:12 GMT -5
Georgetown (academically) is dead to me. All further donations will be directed solely to the Football, and lesser extent basketball, teams. The active alienation of the student body has gone on for too long.
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Post by StPetersburgHoya (Inactive) on Sept 8, 2007 13:42:53 GMT -5
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Post by StPetersburgHoya (Inactive) on Sept 8, 2007 13:44:09 GMT -5
I too will not donate money to the University outside of athletics or in any way fund something that could indirecly assist Tedd Olson until he changes his draconian policies.
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Post by SFHoya99 on Sept 8, 2007 16:59:13 GMT -5
I was talking with a girl that went to Penn while I was at GU (95-99). She said that Penn instituted similar policies when she was a student there.
The result was that everyone just switched to X. Hey, if you're going to get arrested, that's much easier to hide when the cops come in.
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Post by hoyaterp25 on Sept 8, 2007 17:16:27 GMT -5
The guy at towne had cut out the article in the post, with the section on cops near campus highlighted, and as my overage friend checked out, he turned to me and said, you be careful tonight! I love the guys at towne.
But on another note- i feel like its a good thing that the community is Editeded aobut the regulations, bc then the university is more likely to act. Students opinion <<<<<<<< community opinion
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Post by PhillyHoya on Sept 8, 2007 18:27:56 GMT -5
When some drunk kid gets shot or stabbed on their way home from an off-campus party, unfortunately that's when change will come.
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Post by vcjack on Sept 8, 2007 18:34:53 GMT -5
When some drunk kid gets shot or stabbed on their way home from an off-campus party, unfortunately that's when change will come. hopefully it won't come to such an extreme but that is the path we're heading down
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Post by RusskyHoya on Sept 8, 2007 19:12:30 GMT -5
When some drunk kid gets shot or stabbed on their way home from an off-campus party, unfortunately that's when change will come. hopefully it won't come to such an extreme but that is the path we're heading down Well, following the current logic, they'll blame it on the kid for going to an off-campus party and start requiring all underage students to sign no-drinking pledges, like BYU does with all their students.
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Post by StPetersburgHoya (Inactive) on Sept 9, 2007 0:22:01 GMT -5
I was near campus this evening and happened to go up to 35th and O with NYR320 to pick a friend up. I noticed that DPS Officers and Metro police are walking around the neighborhood together - not so bad really. But we saw an amazing show of force between 36th and 37th streets on O - several Metro cars and DPS cars with their lights on and one of what one person said were three paddy wagons was pulling out. If the school is concerned about its alumni having fond memories of Georgetown and wanting to be active members in the community - they sure have a funny way of showing it.
Todd Olson needs to realize what an idiot this makes him look like.
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Post by JimmyHoya on Sept 9, 2007 10:17:17 GMT -5
It was like going to Vegas last night there were so many flashing lights up and down the neighborhood.
The undercover cops were a nice wrinkle for last night, too.
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Post by youngjeezy on Sept 10, 2007 22:40:55 GMT -5
in my little over two years here, i have never seen as much discontent on campus as now. it even got brought up in my improv for social change class as "a great possible topic for a scene". let's look at the facts. georgetown puts a stranglehold on the party policy. people start going off campus for parties because 18, 19, 20 year olds aren't going to stop drinking. burleith has never had more complaints. metro comes, arrests kids. 3 strikes are a suspension.
oh, that's funny, i didn't think i signed up to go to a police state for college, i kind of liked last year when georgetown was more, dare i say, sensible? where they realized they can't just stop students, both underage and of age, from drinking, no matter how hard they try. even 21-year-olds were getting arrested last weekend because of walking out of their apartments with open beers.
i'll honestly say i never once thought going abroad last year, but now have australia spring '08 pretty firmly implanted in my mind. and it's getting harder to not walk past tour groups and tell them not to come here.
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Post by JimmyHoya on Sept 11, 2007 20:29:03 GMT -5
Okay.
The kid who walked out of his house with a beer is a jackass. It's strict, but C'MON...why would you do that? now? NOW!? Moron. One of the few people I don't feel bad for.
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Post by Cambridge on Sept 12, 2007 12:16:30 GMT -5
Okay. The kid who walked out of his house with a beer is a jackass. It's strict, but C'MON...why would you do that? now? NOW!? Moron. One of the few people I don't feel bad for. I do that in san francisco all the time. Turns out, the police here don't care about booze or pot, they are more concerned with murder and other serious crimes. Makes life pretty great.
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Post by strummer8526 on Sept 12, 2007 12:34:00 GMT -5
Okay. The kid who walked out of his house with a beer is a jackass. It's strict, but C'MON...why would you do that? now? NOW!? Moron. One of the few people I don't feel bad for. I do that in san francisco all the time. Turns out, the police here don't care about booze or pot, they are more concerned with murder and other serious crimes. Makes life pretty great. Yes, but in the Pleasantville-esque bastion of non-violence that is Washington DC, the police have to pass the time by turning to these lesser crimes.
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Post by kchoya on Sept 12, 2007 18:29:30 GMT -5
Okay. The kid who walked out of his house with a beer is a jackass. It's strict, but C'MON...why would you do that? now? NOW!? Moron. One of the few people I don't feel bad for. I do that in san francisco all the time. Turns out, the police here don't care about booze or pot, they are more concerned with murder and other serious crimes. Makes life pretty great. Beer? Booze? What are these foreign concepts? We have root beer here in Utah, but I'm having trouble remembering the concepts of beer and kegs and the like from my days on the hilltop. Ah yes, BYU, where you get kicked out for throwing water balloons - nice.
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Post by azarin on Sept 12, 2007 19:43:54 GMT -5
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Post by strummer8526 on Sept 12, 2007 19:58:31 GMT -5
It's nice that she actually understood the argument being made:
Students are not fighting for the right to pass out from drinking. If the University wants to curb WILDLY unhealthy behavior, I guess that's ok. (I personally enjoy passing out, but I can see where she's coming from). This new policy isn't stopping people from passing out drunk. It's gone so much further so as to infringe on healthy, normal social behaviors. Wanna stop the truly reckless behavior? Too bad. Because the people who want to be reckless will be reckless enough to violate stupid policies.
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