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- Higher Education in America
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- A good sample of higher education in America is Michigan State
- University in Lansing, Michigan. "Twenty-five were injured as the mob
- set fire to cars, bicycles, and trees. Ten persons were injured and
- four arrested in Kalamazoo, seventy-five police officers used tear gas
- to disperse a crowd of three thousand students."
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- This took place Saturday, the week of October 16, 1989, and was
- reported by the Detroit News. "Three thousand revelers gathered
- together and started a fire that consumed bicycles, couches and
- trees." The meeting was simply a typical student body affair, an all-
- night drunk. We read "at least two thirds of America's twelve million
- college students are under 21 years old, yet nearly 95% have tried
- alcohol and 42% are heavy drinkers....'lf you survey all college
- presidents, I think you will find that they will identify the abuse of
- alcohol as their number one problem on campus,' said Ed Hammon,
- President of Ford Hays University in Hays, Kansas.... MSU's forty-two
- thousand students made Playboy magazine's 1987 honorable mention list
- of the top booze bash colleges in the country....Early Sunday, city
- work crews used a bulldozer to clear the debris from some streets,
- power lines ripped down when brawling students toppled, cast iron
- street poles also had to be repaired. 523 fights and assaults have
- been reported this year, many alcohol related, police say."
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- These NEA intellectuals connected with the New Age Movement, Gay Lib,
- and Women's Lib are the same bunch that have a heart attack every time
- a street preacher shows up on the campus. This is the bunch that goes
- into a spasm about a Bible showing up in the classroom or a preacher
- standing on a stump and telling them they are going to hell if they
- don't repent. This is the bunch. Let us examine their cultural image
- and their intellectual attainments. "Students drank in smaller groups
- bahind closed doors. At Wonders Hall a handful of young men slipped a
- keg of beer up to the fifth floor, past a bumper sticker on a bulletin
- board reading "A lot of teenagers are dying for a drink." The keg was
- dry before midnight. Two kegs also flowed in the women's dorm of Case
- Hall. On Virginia Street near the campus George Krutemen, 22, a
- senior criminal justice major, estimated that he had poured about
- three hundred shots of tequila Friday night at an off campus party.
- On Grand River Ave., members of Sigma Ki Fraternity, perched from
- their porch roof, feet dangling, watched the parade of passerbys as a
- group of young women walked by chanting 'tastes great, less filling,'
- mimicking the Miller Lite Beer commerical.
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- "The MSU pep band, dressed in green letter jackets, moved from bar to
- bar on Grand River Ave., trumpeting the school fight song. `People
- were swinging from the trees, this one guy was swinging side to side
- and he almost pulled the tree down on top of him. They were all just
- partying and tearing balconies down. They got couches and were
- throwing them into the fire, whatever was close.'"
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- Sounds perfectly normal to me. My creed is "Back to the Bible or back
- to the jungle." What can be more appropriate for an American
- university than a bunch of sex maniacs on crack and pot dancing around
- a fire, half-dressed, burning furniture? I can't think of anything
- more appropriate. If you are dumb enough to pay tuition for that kind
- of a kid, you deserve just the kind of kid you have.
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