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Friday, August 24, 2007

Memories of Underdevelopment


'One of the hardest things [former president Karen Holbrook] had to do at Ohio State was to pull the reigns in on out-of-control tailgaiting.

"I went to Ohio State and had no idea there was a culture of rioting," Holbrook said. "Any good excuse gets some of the people on the street and they think it's fun to flip cars and really have absolute drunken orgies."

Holbrook put together a task force to turn the situation around.

"I was told that was the culture and I was ruining football," she said. "I don't want to be at a place that has this kind of culture as a norm."'




[SOS stalwarts no doubt noticed up there an extremely popular spelling error: reign for rein.]

[Yeah. Got tailgating wrong too.]