| Tuco,
Your questions seem to be inciting arguments. You asked if Brown allows students to throw pies at faculty. It is very obvious that Brown doesn't allow this behavior and in fact, if you read the article posted, the student who did this act is now going through disciplinary hearings. Brown doesn't condone this behavior. When bad behavior happens, the school is not at fault. Things happen in any community of people and what needs to be examined is the school's reaction to it and in this case, the school is intervening with the student in a disciplinary fashion. So, your question has been answsered. No, Brown does not allow pie throwing at faculty or guest speakers.
You asked about the levels of silliness at Brown. This is ONE student who clearly does not represent the Brown community as a whole. To make sweeping generalizations about an entire campus community based on the actions of one student is hard to take seriously. That would be like judging all of Yale based on the student who has the abortion art project. As someone else pointed out, it is not like the Columbia incident in that the Brown students were not cheering on the actions of this one student. Your argument about silliness at Brown would be as if you heard of one student at Brown who was a heroin addict and then generalizing that everyone at Brown does drugs.
I think you'd do better to criticize this student's behavior rather than come onto a Brown forum and attempt to incite and to be speaking ill of Brown due to the behavior of one student. |