University of Wisconsin students have been protesting for a long time. Is this too not an issue of freedom?
"We still have rights; we have a house on Mifflin... Long live Mifflin."Should they not fight for their right to party... especially on Mifflin Street? The history:
The Mifflin Street Block Party began in 1969 as a street protest, which involved dancing in protest against the Vietnam War. Its original date, May 3, was set to coincide with the one-year anniversary of the French student rebellion. Anti-war sentiments had accelerated in Madison since the 1967 Dow Chemical protest in which thousands of students occupied and were violently expelled from Ingraham Hall. The original event arose as part of a continuing conflict between students and police in the "Miffland" area, centered on Mifflin Street. Police refused to allow permission for the street dance and when they entered the area in response to a noise complaint, a confrontation ensued that lasted three nights and spread into the surrounding student areas. Students threw stones at the police and constructed barricades to defend themselves. The police responded with tear gas and billy clubs. At the end, 70 people were injured and more than 100 arrested, including future and current mayor, Paul Soglin.
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Isn't Madison really just west Detroit with white people?
I bet the number of students who contribute meaningfully to BOTH the high academic ranking and high party ranking is very very small.
Tear gas and billy clubs, eh? Should have used water cannons and big police dogs like back in 1961 on State Street. Now that fandango was over something important...the right of a mildly inebriated Playboy Bunny to strip in the middle of the street....then bullfight passing cars with her blouse.
I cheered. Yay! :-)
Students who don't study need something to do, and in fact they are learning valuable skills for their future life. This was my course of study when I was in school, and I finished in three years.
Well, now we know how Professor Althouse has gotten those consistently high evaluations over the years.
I thought it was the pole dancing.
Troll dancing.
The parents of these lazy fucks should cut off their credit cards. When did getting an education become an excuse for a full-time party?
I guess "don't go" didn't work?
The Boulder Halloween street party is one of the best things about CU and about Boulder.
Should you ever want a pleasant afternoon, or pleasant noon for that matter, let's just say a whole pleasant day, I suggest Boulder Mall. The scenery is outstanding. There is an innocence to the whole place. There is an obvious search for truth in the air and there is beauty all around and you sit there sipping your iced tea seeing where money meets youth and think that you just might have found an energy power site for a moment of truth, beauty, and goodness. It's refreshing. Although the products sold there are not all that interesting.
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