http://www.statenews.com I got back to my apartment around 11 p.m. Saturday night, only to find about 4,000 of my closest friends partying in the streets surrounding my home: Cedar Village. en-us Foundry4 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:58:55 -0400 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:28:21 -0400 webmaster@statenews.com http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/14473/view Nice column, Eric. This is poorly headlined though (heads up, SN copy editors), because I feel like the most important point in this piece is the role of Facebook in prosecuting students involved in Cedar Fest. I hope the State News covers this issue further. Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:42:41 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/14473/view http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/14543/view This is the second day in a row that the column has been mistitled. Does the person titling these things even read the article, or does he or she just run a search for buzzwords and fill in the blanks? That aside, this is a nice column. It’s very enlightening to learn about the immense difference between the number of gas canisters fired compared to 2005. Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:44:47 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/14543/view http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/14565/view This should be titled FACE CROOK? Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:06:07 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/14565/view http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/14566/view “ .. Let’s keep the long arm of the law in its proper and well-defined place.” Ooh! If we’d only had this kind of deep thinking before WWII, there would have never been a WWII. I’m reminded of what the old Filipina said Hirosima: “two weren’t enough.” Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:08:26 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/14566/view http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/14595/view Dear Obey: I think they now have medication for folks like you. Having scattered thoughts and tangential thinking can in some cases actually be treated. Good luck. Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:12:14 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/14595/view http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/14637/view I agree completely with the article written. My only question is to who authorized such a ‘party’? Unless anyone has been living under a rock on campus, every recent gathering at Cedar Village has turned into mass chaos. This event should have never taken place, period. Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:53:47 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/14637/view http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/14669/view couldn’t he be prosecuted for hosting an unlawful assembly then once it was declared that before the tear gas? just a thought, maybe not inciting a riot, but the police can get something there. Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:31:36 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/14669/view http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/14682/view Good take on a troubling issue…restrained goverment intervention even on personal safety issues. Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:16:48 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/14682/view http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/14703/view “ .. I think they now have medication .. for LIB-BURR-AL Whine Syndrome. It’s called actually doing real work and actually accomplishing something. Instead silly tool-pulling and bloviating, like trying to encourage the film industry to leave sunny California for Iceland West (a.k.a., Michigan). Totally inane and absurd — more taxpayer money out the window. Higher standards — more flunk-outs — real grades — less rioting. Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:26:02 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/14703/view http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/14717/view obey obama, The Big Ten and Ivy League are notoriously liberal. How do you suggest they improve their academic standards to become the next Bob Jones, Truman State, or Hillsdale again? Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:27:45 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/14717/view http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/14725/view How do you suggest they improve their academic standards .. —- Authentic grades — rigorous exams — more flunk-outs — less rioting. MSU’s faculty is totally capable of making courses more intellectually rigorous. MSU’s academic reputation would improve. But with the debt load of all the buildings — that’s never going to happen. MSU needs the $$$$$$$$$$ of those 15% of freshmen who leave after first year. It’s about money. That is all it is. Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:10:42 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/14725/view http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/14729/view Your condemnation of the party people is well directed. I will be surprized if there is an arraignment of the facebook person. People were really chanting, “We want gas.”? Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:25:34 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/14729/view http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/14731/view Well stated Eric! Nice to see someone out here has full use of their brain. It is absolutely ludacrist that ELPD would try and prosecute anyone who wanted to have a party, yet probably had no intention or concept of what really would happen. I wonder though if the maturity level of party goers will ever reach beyond a 2 year old mentality. When the 1999 Riots were going on I had a party in a warehouse in old town Lansing with 6000 attendees, it was the place to be that night. We had a blast, there was no violence. Thus, proving that it is possible to party with peace of mind, or for that matter, PEACE IN MIND!!! Time to grow up kids. Do you really want that FELONY on your record? THINK!!! Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:35:35 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/14731/view http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/14828/view Hey Obey Obama, Why stop there? Why don’t we just go Plato on everyone’s a$$ and weed all those who are mentally and physically inept (such as yourself), keep them from reproducing and maybe we’ll get the world Reagan is dreaming of while rotting in his grave. Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:26:58 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/14828/view http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/14834/view not only was the “Lawful reaction to riot necessary” it was also funny. nothing is funnier than a bunch of drunk students (or protesters) getting tear gassed! kudos to the ELPD! Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:44:08 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/14834/view http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/15025/view Ok folks…as far as the Facebook author. He can be prosecuted for inciting a riot. His orginal Facebook page, which the majority of people did not see, stated over and over that he wanted the fest to result in a riot…“this would bring back the tradion of Cedarfest”. ELPD contacted him and explained to him that he could be charged. This article really missed that information. If you don’t believe it, watch over the next few weeks as this makes its way to court. They will show all of the original post. Hope this sheds some light. Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:28:21 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/15025/view