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OhioCatFan
5/3/2012 9:31 PM
HeHateMiami wrote:expand_more
Here's another video that might be both shorter and stupider than anything I've seen so far.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxSDkpCa3wM



[sarcasm on]
Well, it could have been worse.  Neither she nor her friends called the driver of the car a Nazi.   

[/sarcasm off]

Seriously, that was one of the stupidest things I've ever seen.  Just how drunk was she, do you think?  I've seen some dumb things done by drunken students, but this takes the cake.
Last Edited: 5/3/2012 9:34:54 PM by OhioCatFan
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bobcatsquared
5/4/2012 1:28 PM
     Can anyone say definitively if our friend drinking beer from the wine bottle is or is not an Ohio University student? Sure hope not. This could be a video I show my daughter in a couple of years before she heads off to college as an example of what I don't expect from her.
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Robert Fox
5/4/2012 3:28 PM
I think it's only fair to remember a key difference between today and when many of us were in school: video cameras and recordings of nearly EVERYTHING.

I am quite sure there are many things that I and my friends did that I would regret, but those things (fortunately) are lost to memory. Today, students are not that lucky. If you're in public making an ass of yourself, chances are outstanding that you will be recorded.

That's a whole new paradigm, and our collective behavior has not yet caught up with the advancement of technology.
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HeHateMiami
5/4/2012 4:00 PM
bobcatsquared wrote:expand_more
     Can anyone say definitively if our friend drinking beer from the wine bottle is or is not an Ohio University student? Sure hope not. This could be a video I show my daughter in a couple of years before she heads off to college as an example of what I don't expect from her.


When the memes took off on Facebook during the beginning of the week there was a girl on there complaining (not our friend from the video), who claimed that she lived at 11 Palmer, and that the girl depicted was one of her guests from out of town, very nice, and didn't deserve to be made fun of. 

It's the Internet, so anyone can say anything, but to me, I'd say it's pretty likely she's not an OHIO student.
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AintBeenGood
5/4/2012 4:04 PM
I would be so proud of this girl if she were my daughter. She would be paying her own way from now on. I had 3 daughters graduate from Ohio and not one of them ever went to one of these fests. Not only that, but they weren't alcoholics nor drug addicts that these people are.
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Alan Swank
5/4/2012 7:19 PM
AintBeenGood wrote:expand_more
I would be so proud of this girl if she were my daughter. She would be paying her own way from now on. I had 3 daughters graduate from Ohio and not one of them ever went to one of these fests. Not only that, but they weren't alcoholics nor drug addicts that these people are.


At least that's what they told you.  
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Business_Cat
5/4/2012 11:00 PM
bobcatsquared wrote:expand_more
Can anyone say definitively if our friend drinking beer from the wine bottle is or is not an Ohio University student? Sure hope not. This could be a video I show my daughter in a couple of years before she heads off to college as an example of what I don't expect from her.
The girl is not from an Ohio student for sure. I met her through a mutual friend at palmer that day who is a hocking student
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JSF
5/5/2012 12:53 PM
AintBeenGood wrote:expand_more
I would be so proud of this girl if she were my daughter. She would be paying her own way from now on. I had 3 daughters graduate from Ohio and not one of them ever went to one of these fests. Not only that, but they weren't alcoholics nor drug addicts that these people are.


How do you know they're alcoholics and drug addicts, exactly?
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oldkatz
5/5/2012 2:19 PM
Robert Fox wrote:expand_more
I think it's only fair to remember a key difference between today and when many of us were in school: video cameras and recordings of nearly EVERYTHING.

I am quite sure there are many things that I and my friends did that I would regret, but those things (fortunately) are lost to memory. Today, students are not that lucky. If you're in public making an ass of yourself, chances are outstanding that you will be recorded.

That's a whole new paradigm, and our collective behavior has not yet caught up with the advancement of technology.


  I think it is safe to say that most of us who may be post-college age on this board would have some difficulty running for senatorial office if the technology were present back then.  The closets may be packed full of skeletons.

Last Edited: 5/5/2012 2:20:04 PM by oldkatz
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Business_Cat
5/5/2012 6:49 PM
AintBeenGood wrote:expand_more
I would be so proud of this girl if she were my daughter. She would be paying her own way from now on. I had 3 daughters graduate from Ohio and not one of them ever went to one of these fests. Not only that, but they weren't alcoholics nor drug addicts that these people are.


You should refrain from using language like this in the future. You are unfairly generalizing the students who attend these fests. I am a current student that spends 40+ hours a week to study and attend student-organization events. It's not your place to call me a "drug addict" simply because I attend spring fests. Thanks 

-By no means am I defending the immature actions of a few, but the unfair generalizations of many. 

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Ryan Carey
5/7/2012 9:17 AM
Pizza girl should have just disappeared back to Illinois....at least she's not full of herself.

http://thepost.ohiou.edu/content/qa-palmer-fest-pizza-girl-speaks-post-about-experience 


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Bobcatbob
5/7/2012 1:40 PM
Ryan Carey wrote:expand_more
Pizza girl should have just disappeared back to Illinois....at least she's not full of herself.

http://thepost.ohiou.edu/content/qa-palmer-fest-pizza-girl-speaks-post-about-experience 


Yeah, this girl is going places in this world.  One her many friends needs to tell her to just shut up.
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JSF
5/7/2012 1:41 PM
At least one felony charge has been handed down.
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HeHateMiami
5/7/2012 3:07 PM
Quote from the article: "The criminal complaint against her, filed by the OU Police in Athens County Municipal Court, alleges that McNaughton "was advised to disperse during Palmer Fest, but refused to do so. Several attempts were made to get her to disperse, (but) she refused." The "dispersal" evidently included situations where partiers wouldn't clear out of their own homes at police request.

When police entered McNaughton's residence, the complaint claims, she kicked OU Police Lt. Eric Hoskinson."

So they were going into people's homes and telling them to disperse... to where exactly? I thought the entire idea was to get people into their homes? 

Or is this just a confusing way to say people had parties going on inside their homes that the police were also shutting down, and while they weren't telling this McNaughton girl to leave her home, they were telling her partygoers to move on?

Last Edited: 5/7/2012 3:07:32 PM by HeHateMiami
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bobcatsquared
5/7/2012 4:06 PM
       Pres. McDavis has sent an e-mail to parents about the behavior displayed by some Ohio students at Palmerfest. Also to announce a Town Hall Meeting scheduled for Wednesday. Mentioned on more than one occassion that Ohio students "are better than this."
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DelBobcat
5/7/2012 4:44 PM
AintBeenGood wrote:expand_more
I would be so proud of this girl if she were my daughter. She would be paying her own way from now on. I had 3 daughters graduate from Ohio and not one of them ever went to one of these fests. Not only that, but they weren't alcoholics nor drug addicts that these people are.


I find that HIGHLY unlikely. I don't know a single person that went to Ohio University during my tenure there that didn't attend at least one fest. That includes people that don't drink.

Also, the majority of the people at fests are sitting around, talking to friends, playing cornhole, etc. The same things you probably do at back yard BBQs or at tailgating events. Your comments show your ignorance of the issue.

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anorris
5/8/2012 12:31 AM
DelBobcat wrote:expand_more
I don't know a single person that went to Ohio University during my tenure there that didn't attend at least one fest. That includes people that don't drink.

Hi.
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athena
5/8/2012 9:16 AM
HeHateMiami wrote:expand_more
Or is this just a confusing way to say people had parties going on inside their homes that the police were also shutting down, and while they weren't telling this McNaughton girl to leave her home, they were telling her partygoers to move on?


That's how I take it ... the police didn't want people just clearing off the streets and going into houses to continue partying, they wanted the house parties shut down too.

An email went out yesterday asking for faculty and staff volunteers to work Mill Fest this weekend. They want to have groups patrolling designated areas to "check on misbehavior" and "provide assistance as needed and act as a conduit to police if issues of personal safety and property arise". They do this every year for Halloween, but this is the first time they've done it for a street fest.
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DelBobcat
5/8/2012 12:08 PM
anorris wrote:expand_more
I don't know a single person that went to Ohio University during my tenure there that didn't attend at least one fest. That includes people that don't drink.

Hi.


Oh hi, nice to meet you... I don't know why you chose to abstain from fest going, but I think you would agree that you were in the minority.

But the point is that it doesn't make people bad for going to the fests. The vast majority of attendees' behavior is completely innocuous.
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DelBobcat
5/8/2012 12:11 PM
athena wrote:expand_more
Or is this just a confusing way to say people had parties going on inside their homes that the police were also shutting down, and while they weren't telling this McNaughton girl to leave her home, they were telling her partygoers to move on?


That's how I take it ... the police didn't want people just clearing off the streets and going into houses to continue partying, they wanted the house parties shut down too.

An email went out yesterday asking for faculty and staff volunteers to work Mill Fest this weekend. They want to have groups patrolling designated areas to "check on misbehavior" and "provide assistance as needed and act as a conduit to police if issues of personal safety and property arise". They do this every year for Halloween, but this is the first time they've done it for a street fest.



I've been saying they need to do this for years. Halloween runs successfully because all parties involved have a positive outlook.

Right now the fests have taken on a very contentious and confrontational atmosphere. Get volunteers out there and close off the street. Take a stance of "we're working with you so that everyone can have fun." Now it is "we're here to control you, and don't you dare get out of control."
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shabamon
5/9/2012 1:36 PM
There's a townhall meeting at the west portico of MemAud tonight at 5 to discuss Palmerfest. I plan on going as long as there's no rain.
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shabamon
5/15/2012 1:01 PM
Can't say I learned much new information from the townhall meeting other than McDavis does contact the president of other universities regarding the conduct of their students when they visit Athens.
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