You have shamed me, MSU. I have always bled a bold green, but for once in my life, it flows a shade of embarrassment. Don’t get me wrong, I know and have experienced the debauchery and suppressed inhibitions that are incorporated in a college lifestyle. In fact, it is almost an obligation to make a bad decision in the four years you are enrolled here — sleep through class, go out drinking when you have a paper due the next morning, vomit from drinking, let your Xbox 360, hookah or favorite TV show take priority over your psych or math book. But aren’t those mistakes overridden by the things we do accomplish when no one’s looking?
Since the riots after the 1999 NCAA Final Four, students have crossed this line accompanied with burning couches and smashing beer bottles. What dignity do we take in that? MSU always has prided itself in its lack of pomposity when compared to, say, the University of Michigan. But the next time a Wolverine takes a typical rivalry argument past basketball or football and starts digging at our stupidity with our riots as their main thesis, what can you say?
We have reached a new low, MSU. The verdict is still out — what’s admirable about being a school that receives anti-riot handouts when we reach the Sweet 16? Nonetheless, at least sporting events are the actual spark behind past blemishes. At least they added substance to the congregation of dangerous mobs. But what about Cedar Fest?
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but perhaps we should take a page out of the book of the self-confident Wolverines. When the controversial, anti-affirmative action Proposal 2 was accepted, they assembled. When we felt like getting blackout drunk and setting off fireworks, we assembled. Perhaps adding the greatest insult to injury is the fact that this isn’t a first-time occurrence. This is the fourth time in nine years that a large assembly has had police action taken against it. Such repetitive action has ensured complete defacement of the MSU image. Tarnished are the beautiful Beal Botanical Garden, the historic Beaumont Tower and our highly ranked College of Education. Replacing them are blazing dumpsters and violent mobs disgustingly protesting … absolutely nothing.
MSU, you have shamed me.
Blake Miller
finance sophomore
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