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-- Anonymous, January 25, 2002

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Thought y'all might like this...

http://cgi1.usatoday.com/mchat/20020125003/tscript.htm

-- Anonymous, January 25, 2002

Hey, y'all. I should be getting married four months from today. I hope.

-- Anonymous, January 25, 2002

OH my gosh, you don't think people really buy those liberty dresses do you?

-- Anonymous, January 25, 2002

I'm sure that somewhere (I'm thinking Jersey or Utah), that dress has been bought. So sad. And now that the Merch has closed, where will that lovely girl find her engagement ring?

Gosh, I'm a mean, nasty person.

-- Anonymous, January 25, 2002

I know y'all aren't pissing on USATODAY.com's choice of photos.

-- Anonymous, January 25, 2002

No, I'm pissing on the fact that the dress in question even exists.

-- Anonymous, January 25, 2002

So much for patriotism! heheheheh!

Berman, that front page story about the MIT girl? That is the WORST thing I've ever heard. She killed herself by setting herself on fire?! She must have been seriously mentally ill. That is so sad.

-- Anonymous, January 25, 2002

Hey, the one we replaced it with is equally sad. What kind of a guy kills someone else over a rough hockey practice?

-- Anonymous, January 25, 2002

Did they ever find out what the cause of death was for the guy who was discovered half-eaten by his pet lizards?

-- Anonymous, January 25, 2002

The hockey dad got manslaughter right?

-- Anonymous, January 25, 2002

Involuntary.

-- Anonymous, January 25, 2002

How terrible is that story.

And about the MIT one - doesn't MIT have a history of suicides involving students who were seeking university counseling? I think the university is WAY off saying they have no responsibility. If a state school can punish me for things done OFF campus, then they can certainly be held responsible for negligent mental care.

-- Anonymous, January 25, 2002

If a state school can punish me for things done OFF campus...

Oh really! Like, what for?

-- Anonymous, January 25, 2002

Didn't MIT have a murder-suicide a year or so ago (a girl killed her roommate and then herself)?

-- Anonymous, January 25, 2002

I think it was a little longer ago than that ... but yeah.

-- Anonymous, January 25, 2002

Man, it's awful. I can't get over the girl setting herself on fire.

-- Anonymous, January 25, 2002

Just to change the very sad subject, you all will get a laugh out of this.

The MOC and I are going to The Atlanta Motorcycle Show tonight.

HAHAHHAHAHA! I hope they have Vespas. My uncle Bird works for Kawasaki and will be there.

-- Anonymous, January 25, 2002

Well, the big debate at Miami was that if you got caught drinking underage off-campus, why can the university punish you as well? You're already being punished by the local law enforcement and justice system. Why is okay for the school, also a state entity, to in essence, doubly punish you for one crime.

Clearly not double jeopardy, but a system that hets up a LOT of people.

In the MIT article they University was basically saying - Are we to parent these kids? Where does personal responsibility take over? And in the case of Miami, and LOTS of other schools, they ARE already parenting, so hello, please extend that to making sure these kids don't kill themselves.

-- Anonymous, January 25, 2002

Meloonsa. On my last nerve.

-- Anonymous, January 25, 2002

Unless MIT takes on in loco parentis status when you enroll your child, then legally, they're not responsible for treating a student with the same responsibility as a parent. They could, and maybe they should, but they're not required to be fully responsible for an individual that is legally an adult.

It's interesting - until my freshman year, Agnes Scott assumed in loco parentis control over any enrolled, full-time student. They could make the rules, they could act as your legal guardian - all that stuff.

-- Anonymous, January 25, 2002

Meloonsa drives me nuts - I HAD to get a jab in about someone being a "practicing" attorney, and not just a law school graduate. BIG difference, clazy Florida girl who admits that she shat herself during an afternoon jog.

-- Anonymous, January 25, 2002

I do agree with that - if the person is an adult the school has no legal responsibility. But that's why it's a civil case. And why I think they should *start* taking responsiblity in cases like these. The girl in question had more than one unversity doctor want her commited. She lived in a dorm. Her parents paid for her to be treated by these university doctors, and still they knew nothing? I know confidentiality, but in extreme cases a parent or sibling can commit someone who is ruled to be unable to do it themselves. This probably would've been one of those cases, right?

I don't know much about it. I'm mostly projecting.

-- Anonymous, January 25, 2002

Al - if there are Vespas, Chris has to get on one, and you have to take a picture.

-- Anonymous, January 25, 2002

It just pisses me off that the schools try to have it both ways -- they do what H mentioned (the same rule applied at Maryland), which certainly implies that the colleges feel they have that power and responsibility, but then they turn around and throw up their hands when something bad happens.

Either you have that power or you don't.

-- Anonymous, January 25, 2002

Exactly Mike. Either claim your right to parent me (and I'm guessing only private schools could) or don't do it at all.

It still burns me up that I got punished twice for one crime. I had to go to Butler County Court and then I had to have this on my university record AND go to a Unversity sanctioned drug and alcohol joke. (Which was a JOKE. I know drug awareness and all that, but telling college kids that marijuana doesn't kill brain cells isn't telling them NOT to do it. It's making them feel less guilty about it.)

-- Anonymous, January 25, 2002

L_Led again!

I hope to get johannamerrill.com up by the end of the weekend. How exciting is that?

-- Anonymous, January 25, 2002

L_L no more.

-- Anonymous, January 25, 2002

Y'all. Meloonsa. Sigh. Poor girl. I'd feel sorry for her if she wasn't such a LOON. I still will never understand how she got through and actually graduated from GW. Never.

-- Anonymous, January 25, 2002

It's like GW must have had a quote for crazy people, or something.

-- Anonymous, January 25, 2002

This Enron thing is crazy. I wish I knew what was going on.

-- Anonymous, January 25, 2002