:: Running from the Thought Police ::

:: Saturday, February 19, 2005 ::

The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year

This weekend the university hosts the IHSA state wrestling championships. Normally, I wouldn't care about this, except for the fact that the high schoolers have a marked tendency to wander over from their hotel rooms on Neil street and, since the Six Pack are the only dorms they can find (the only ones close to Neil and obvious on their way to Huff Hall), do some vandalism here. One presumes that they're drunk since doing such things while sober seems contrary to the self-control they have to exert on the wrestling mat. Also, for at least the past two years, the little vandals have hit my own Forbes hall, once by breaking the security-glass window on the NW doors and the other by breaking a rather large window in the walkway between my dorm and its cafeteria, then pulling the fire alarm in that cafeteria. The area offices lock the doors throughout the entire weekend, as if it were a football weekend, but, since the vandalisms usually happen at night when the door are locked anyway, I don't see how this is supposed to help. I'm surprised that the university police don't just have someone patrolling the Six Pack the entire night.

:: The Squire 6:28 PM :: email this post :: ::
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