tuco48

soozievt,

Pardon me for being on the Brown forum. Didn't the incident happen at Brown? Isn't the title of the thread, "Brown Students Pie Pulitzer Prize Winner?" There were no "sweeping generalizations." And I made no "argument." Those are in your imagination as is the heroin thing. Read the posts. I compared two ridiculous statements made by the pie thrower at Brown. And for that I was called a "****ing moron" by a Brown student on this thread. I did say that I'll watch to see how the Brown administration handles this incident. As of today I've heard of no disciplinary action taken in the case by the administration.

I read Kevin Rose's soppy column in the Brown Daily Herald that ends:
"So I see where you're coming from, and I certainly support your First Amendment right to protest Friedman's pro-capitalist cheerleading. But please, think a little more next time. When you take what could have been a robust dialogue and reduce it to a cutesy attention-grab, you're committing the same sin as the mustachioed man whose shoulder bore your pie cream. And moreover, you're giving us all a bad name."

I also read Rakim Brooks' '09 letter to the Brown Daily Herald entitled, "Apprehension of pie-thrower out of line," which condemns Assistant Professor of Biology Stephen Porder for apprehending the student. It seems this student thinks the professor was violating the pie thrower's rights.

And I glanced at the site, itsgettinghotinhere.org, which has a lively dialog in the comments section including Brown students in attendance, including a long post from Colonel Custard of the Greenwash Guerillas, himself. I'm unclear if he is the unindicted co pie thrower. Colonel Custard is a real comedian. Here's a comment from the site that strikes a chord with me, "The real comedy in all of this is that a pair of privileged Brown students have convinced themselves that their juvenile act of vanity is actually going to lead to a productive debate that destroys capitalism and stops global warming. We’re rolling in the aisles, kids."

So please excuse me for wondering about silliness at Brown and "inciting arguments." I notice that you bring up incidents at other Ivys, not to be out done I suppose. Or is it just to spread the slime. I commend the Yale administration for acting immediately on their issue, calling the student in and exposing her nonsense for what it was, a hoax.