This Year's Lamest College Party Brought To You By Penn State

Benj 2, Pennstater 0

"better thing to do than respond to your rants" - glad to see you found time to respond to tell everyone that you don't have time to respond because you obviously have the time to respond about not having time to respond. Lord, now I'm as confused as pennstater.

How can you respond to my "rant" by saying you have better things to do than respond to my rants...?

Good to see PSU is still the bastion of reason.

You should try harder.

Thanks for the lovely comments just proving my point. You don't impress me with your attempts to sound intelligent, but I'll be sure to watch for your book.

If you'll excuse me I have better things to do with my time than respond to your rants - and at least I don't have a drinking problem.

Yeah.

A "lack of decency" would be pointing at that girl's picture and saying you want to sodomize the bullet hole.

Somebody murders 30 people in a few hours and my words make you sick? Please. Get over it. Your viscera is just drama.

Something you can't know is that I've spent the last 4+ years writing a 440+ page book on shooting sprees (citing 175+ examples), from a primarily cultural/anthropological perspective. Outside of clinical/psychological factors (i.e. far-end derealization and pathological depersonalization), one of the few elements of universality is an under-appreciation of irony, coupled with an unbelievably violent expression of hyper-sensitivity to perceived injustice/insult. And while I've been fortunate enough not to encounter a heavily armed half-wit that thinks he can even the scales by shooting unarmed innocents, I've done far too much research to let you describe mass murder as an "experience."

I suggest that if my words bother you, you should take a longer view and try to assess why you're bothered. I'm not trying to equate you with a Cho, per se, but I'd argue it's better to act less like him than more so.

Here's your apology: I'm sorry that I have a mental defect that made me feel like writing this comment could possibly affect you in any positive way.

Oh, and P-stater, sorry if I'm terse but I just polished off 8 or 9 Stellas and I no longer have it in me to summon any measure of fake respect for your fake outrage.

Ha-ha. Good.

I'm also a (recent) Penn State alum, and I'm as offended and disgusted by what these two students did as anybody else. Their choice of costume absolutely was wrong.

However, these two students do not represent the approximately 80,000 Penn State students statewide and hundreds of thousands of alumni by any means. Penn State as a whole has every respect for Virginia Tech, as well as regret for what they've had to experience.

Benj - your comment ("Wrong school, Cho.") makes me sick. By writing something so thoughtless, you're also showing a lack of decency. I would not wish that tragedy on any school or any group of people. Please, think about what you're saying before you say it, and perhaps an apology is in line.

Speaking as someone who went to Tech (not that that actually adds anything to my comment other than a frame of reference), I think the costumes may be in poor taste...but this isn't an outrage. I'm glad PSU administration didn't come down on these kids, that would have been wrong.

i went to penn state. man, we suck.

It's hard to defend this (and I am not exactly defending it), but I agree with Tim. If these kids dressed up and went trick or treating in Virginia, or if they did it to be national celebrities of raunch and bad taste I would be ready to condemn their behavior whole-heartedly. As it is, they went to a private party and some pics came out. Come on, there are many more things to be outraged against. I don't see this in the same light as the "ghetto fabulous party" because it isn't like the VT victims have been subject to widespread discrimination throughout the history of the country.

The sad thing is that PSU (my alma mater) was a sea of orange and red at the Blue-White Game in the spring (tens of thousands of students bought VT-colored T-shirts and wore them to the game as a show of support). I wonder if these nimrods reused those shirts. Sigh.

Amazingly, I have to agree with LM. Tim, I think you're quite right, but there should be a 'bummer' caveat.

I think the line is drawn at innocent real victims. You can dress up as a 9-11 hijacker because that guy created his own fate, but if you're "let's roll" that's just insensitive to his family and it's a downer for everyone else since that guy's death was unavoidable.

I know Halloween has been co-opted to be about dressing up as a sexy-something, but once upon a time people dressed up as ghouls, goblins, and the dead. If the dead were roaming the earth, then dressing up as them would make one blend in better. These costumes would seem be completely within the spirit of Halloween. Much more so than "Wet T-Shirt Contestant".

Have we decided that it's completely appropriate to dress up on Halloween as bloody corpses, only so long as the corpses come from a movie? It's interesting that society always seems to know where the line should be drawn. I've personally seen dozens of "prom night toilet birth" costumes, which apparently is an appropriate real life news story to use as a costume. Pregnant nuns. Executed death row inmates. John Wayne Gacy. All appropriate.

911, Holocaust, and Virginia Tech victims, not appropriate.

We call these kids stupid, but where exactly does one get this innate ability to know that it is acceptable to dress up as the victim of a movie serial killer, but not the victim of a real life one?

I guess these children don't need jobs since they know nobody is going to hire them after this shit.

Wrong school, Cho.

what a bunch of dicks...

but, really no worse than the crap that happens on west campus every weekend.

"Bombs Over Baghdad" parties helped kick off our bombing of Iraq a few years back.

Fratty dude-brahs love to celebrate death through insensitivity.

Wow. On top of being an idiot, Jones is also a prick. bravo!

oh cool, i get it, a free speech experiment! bravo! i give him an a "A" for "Asshole!"