… Her students were at play
I heard the shatter of the glass
Along each broad highway…
Yes, the University of Rhode Island student body is rioting again. The furrow-browed administrator who tells the local journalist it’s an intolerable but at the same time very complex and difficult problem overlooks the fact that URI has for years specialized in admitting huge numbers of drunks and bullies. It shouldn’t really be that difficult to review its admissions and other policies (do they admit everyone who applies, for instance? have they created a campus ethos particularly attractive to drunks and bullies?) and begin to change them. The fact of your being a state school doesn’t mean you have a mandate to harbor every college-age shithead born in Rhode Island.
May 7th, 2014 at 3:06PM
No, only the college-age s***heads that finish in the top half, or the top 2/3, of their graduating classes. The same dynamic was at work in Wisconsin years ago, where the social set in my high school weighed the relative merits of Oshkosh or LaCrosse or Whitewater for the social scene.
May 7th, 2014 at 9:42PM
UD, I resent your “shit head’ description of URI students. Why, we all know they did well on the SAT/ACT, and those two are wonderful barometers of academic excellence and high intell….
Oh wait, never mind….
May 8th, 2014 at 10:30AM
UMass wannabes
May 8th, 2014 at 10:31AM
Mr Punch: Totally.