- Illustration by Emily Bernstein
Last Saturday, September 18 around 11:45PM, a group of five unsuspecting freshmen were sitting outside of the back entrance of Larrabee House, enjoying the cool night air, when the evening suddenly took an alarming turn. A clearly inebriated member of the Coast Guard wandered, shirtless and bleeding profusely from his right temple, out of a nearby path.
Rijul Ray ’14 and the bleeding student locked eyes for a moment, and suddenly the student began storming towards the group with little warning. Ray did not stick around to see what happened next: he bolted out of there, another freshman in tow. This decision proved to be a wise one.
The drunken young man lurched toward the group and began speaking with only mild intelligibility. “They want me to go to the woods!” he yelled, grabbing Michael Murchison ’14. Afterward, he took a swing at Alex Onik ’14, who narrowly dodged it and was left unharmed. As Ray contacted campus security, a crowd began to gather around the spectacle, causing Murchison and another student, Nels Christenson ’14, to remove themselves from the scene. They entered the back door of Larrabee in an attempt to seek haven in their basement room.
There was only one problem: the Coast Guard student had followed them in.
“I felt raw fear, man,” Ray said following the event. “I’ve never felt fear the way I did that night.”
Chris King ’13 arrived with a few friends just as things seemed to be going even further downhill. He quickly made his way to Larrabee’s basement and helped restrain the student, who had attempted to corner Christenson in the hallway of his dorm.
The student was banging on one of the doors, making violent threats, when King got a hold of him and managed to sit him down.
Duncan Spaulding ‘12 was visiting a friend upstairs, when a few students came running into the room. “They said there was a kid trying to kill someone in the basement and they needed help,” he said. “We ran down and Chris started talking to the kid and asking him to calm down. The guy’s entire face was red with blood.”
“I just grabbed him, and I held him there once everyone ran away,” said King. “He was trying to break into the room they were in, and I just calmed him down a bit until Campus Safety came. I have no idea what made me do it. I saw him throw a punch, so I grabbed him because I didn’t want him to really injure somebody.”
Spaulding called Campus Safety at 12:03 AM, and they arrived quickly from three different entrances. Once they arrived, the student began trying to explain the details of the night to the officers and King.
“He said that he got kicked out of a room by a couple of girls, and four Conn guys came and beat the hell out of him,” said King. “He was really hammered when he was telling the story. But if I were to guess, I’d say the girls kicked him out, and the guys thought he was giving them a hard time so they beat him up.”
When the ruckus finally subsided, the student was removed by Campus Safety. The only remaining sign that anything had happened was the bloodstained handprint on Christenson’s shirt from where he had been grabbed.
Anyone who has ventured out of his or her dorm on a Thursday or Saturday has no doubt noticed the distinctive blue and white uniform of many a Coast Guard student.
“I would rather Coasties didn’t touch me when I’m inebriated – or sober, for that matter,” said sophomore Zoë Lieb, in regards to their fairly consistent presence at campus parties. She’s hardly alone; the student from Saturday’s incident was on campus primarily to seek out girls.
Alternately, jabs, sneers and, as this incident proves, physical violence, are used against Coast Guard members upon their every visit. That Saturday, Conn students were heard yelling comments to the uniformed like “My tax dollars are paying for your education,” and “At least we’ve got real girls.”
The Coast Guard visitors generally aren’t considered very dangerous and they will probably continue to be treated with the same terse civility they always have. But on a campus where the honor code asks us to treat others with integrity, for who is the coast less clear?
Additional reporting by Lilah Raptopoulos
Honestly, enough is enough. Conn needs to change / actually enforce some sort of alcohol policy, before someone gets seriously injured. Start teaching students how to take responsibility for their actions.
u mad CG academy is stylin on u?????
Taunts of “At least we’ve got real girls.”? Come on, Coastie girls aren’t “real” girls?? That’s not very nice.
Interesting fact: The Coast Guard Academy was the first service academy to admit females, and currently about 30% of the cadets are females.
This article is very blatantly biased.
And before you talk trash on the Academy’s girls, look at your own, they’re not exactly dimes.
I cannot believe:
1) you feel there is tension between both schools,
2) that Conn students weren’t under the influence also,
3) who was the actual victim,
4) that illustration to the top of the page,
5) the order of this storyline (not the best investigation), and
6) how innocent you believe your students are…
I also agree with you. @Shannon
First, I am in fact a “real girl” and my DoDMERB physical, during an uncomfortable check, confirmed that. What a shame it is that students at Connecticut College have yet to accept that women don’t just wear skirts and take up professions like dancing and clerical work. I thought (if nothing else) at a generic liberal arts school you would have learned that.
Also, I see that Connecticut College is starting you off on the right foot, Jerell Mays, in teaching you that journalism is mainly about appeasing your audience rather than reporting the truth.
Wow, glad to see that unbiased journalism still exists in this world. Maybe you can work for Fox after you graduate, though I’d imagine even they have more class (See Photo Above Article).
Apparently your tax dollars not only paid for this individual’s uniform, but also for the medical treatment he received after being beaten senseless by no less than four of your students. Inebriated? How about punch-drunk, in shock, and/or dizziness, nausea, disorientation, and confusion as a result of severe head trauma? You’re right though, there is a higher standard of conduct demanded of Coast Guard cadets, and we probably shouldn’t be mixing it with the value-vacuum of Conn College.
*To all of those who had no part in this, or were innocently swept up in the aftermath, my apologies for your troubles.
**This is an independent view and in no way reflects the official position of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.
“He said that he got kicked out of a room by a couple of girls, and four Conn guys came and beat the hell out of him,” said King. “He was really hammered when he was telling the story. But if I were to guess, I’d say the girls kicked him out, and the guys thought he was giving them a hard time so they beat him up.”
So in short, one young man gets beat up by FOUR other men yet he is still the villain? Why didn’t anyone try and help him? Why didn’t Ray, “felt raw fear, man,” offer to get the man medical assistance? I attend a D1 university and I know for a fact that if a group of people saw an individual bloodied and hurt the first reaction would be to call an ambulance, not restrain him.
–BM3
Sexist comments that degrade women in military service are unnecessary.
Academy women are real women. An equivalent statement would be that “At CGA, we have real men.” Perhaps if you would be offended by that comment, you should avoid publishing demeaning comments against women who have chosen to serve their country.
As a student who has experienced both the military lifestyle and now the civilian college student lifestyle, I find this issue to be more relevant now than ever.
Prior to attending the CGA, I attended a small private school close by, you all know which one, for 6 years. In this time, I never even considered attending the CGA even though it was right across the street. The lifestyle that I observed the Conn students living was much more appealing to me. The liberal college atmosphere and liberal lifestyle seemed really pretty amazing, however seemingly sheltered. (To those who don’t think you are sheltered, you need a reality check.)
However, things changed and I ended up attending the CGA. I had never felt any animosity for Conn College; in fact, quite the opposite. However, as soon as Swab Summer drew to a close and the academic year began, the warnings about venturing over to Conn began to spread. It was odd. I was very confused as to why a positive, at points even symbiotic, relationship between the two institutions couldn’t be fostered due to their close proximity.
My grandmother attended Conn when it was all girls and spoke of a friendly dynamic between the two campuses. Where has that gone?
Well, now that both institutions are co-ed, the dynamic has changed. (Which brings me to another point; No girls? To be frank, neither campus is an ASU or Louisiana State U. or College of Charleston.) However, regardless of your “taste” in the opposite sex, it’s sad that college students, people who are supposed to be maturing and learning the proper way to act in public (we aren’t high school animals anymore), act like this towards others. Making broad, crass generalizations like that is exactly what people who give a damn have been working to prevent. This isn’t to say that the CGA isn’t guilty of many of the same shameful jeers on occasion. (After attending, I certainly know that isn’t true.)
Returning to my original yammerings;
I see no reason why the two campuses can’t develop a healthy, or at least relatively cordial relationship. I know amazing people at both campuses. Just because Conn is an extremely liberal liberal arts school and just because the CGA is a Very conservative military institution doesn’t mean that they have to be mutually exclusive. When a cadet becomes a firstie, many of them want to take classes at Conn to get just a tiny little taste of what the civilian classroom experience is like. But that seems to be where the cooperation ends.
I think the divide is based out of jealousy.
Now, this might be a stretch, but give me a second.
CGA students have quite a bit to be jealous of. I know some CGA kids will read this and say, “No, not me! I love serving my country and knowing that I will go on to do good things for it. And if these are the sacrifices I have to make, then so be it.” And that is extremely honorable and you are way too under appreciated for that, but honestly guys, how many times have you wanted a slice of freedom? To just cut Naut Sci because it’s a wicked nice day out? Or to sleep through reveille at 0600 and formation and morning classes and lunch formation and family-style lunch with obnoxious freshmen all the way to your afternoon lab? There is no fault in wanting that. Those are luxuries that were signed away. That is why cadets receive pay. And most of the time, we were ok with that. But, at least for me, I had many moments where I longed for just a little something else. Longed for what those kids across the street had.
And Conn Students? Well, finding where your animosity towards CGA stems from is a bit harder. You have the choice of classes, you have the choice of clothing, of looking at your food, of walking to class at your own pace, of expression or even when to wake up. (Author: as a freshmen, how many times have you looked at your food while eating? Just wondering…) Who could want more? Well, as human nature determines for us, we are afraid or at least wary of the unknown. As I said before, even going to school for 6 years right across RT 32, the only thing I knew about the CGA was that there was some loud bang at 8:00am every morning. To me, it seems as if a lot of the distaste comes passed down from those students who came before us. The same is true at CGA, I think. We don’t know what the other student body is like. It seems as if both student bodies are unwilling to overlook the dichotomous aspects of the other.
And the issue of not helping someone who is hurt transcends whatever college or institution you attend.
How sad is that? Really? I’d like to believe that we are all of sound enough mind to help out someone who is hurt, regardless of if they wear J. Crew and birkenstocks or a tropical blue long uniform.
And finally, to the jeer of “My tax dollars are paying for your education,” I say two things.
1. No shit “your” tax dollars are paying for the education. They are also paying for his medical fees. And for the skills he will learn in order to protect you. You are paying him to provide a service to the civilian population. In other words, you are paying him to work for you. He and all the other armed service members work for you. I’d be willing to bet you never thought of it like that. Do you normally assault people who work for you? (Most likely, it is your parent’s tax dollars in the first place, anyway)
2. I’m sure all the members of the armed forces are more than willing to give you a big ol’ “You’re welcome” anytime you are ready to recognize the sacrifices they make. Even as a cadet. I wasn’t able to do all 4 years in a row. Anybody who can, and I can attest to this, is an incredibly strong, resilient and dedicated person. So this is my pitch for the CGA; get off their backs. They work for you. But only if they aren’t being assaulted.
The only question now is if too much damage has been done to try and facilitate a sense of cooperation.
It’s a shame that this incident and other’s like it (recall the drivel that was the op-ed piece on the spring hockey game where the injury of a CGA player was reported in a comic light. As was the incredibly professional volley of beer cans that was thrown at a him while he was hurt) have cast such a pathetic glow on both of the institutions. I hope that some time in the future some sort of civility can be upheld between a Camel and a Bear.
Maybe the two schools should settle this with a rugby match.
TED, I would make the 12 hour drive to New London to see a Conn-CGA men’s rugby match any day of the week. Also, great replies from everyone, especially CoastieGirl and McToads.
–BM3
No point the CGA would win by 80….
“The only remaining sign that anything had happened was the bloodstained handprint on Christenson’s shirt from where he had been grabbed.”
That, and the stitches that the Coast Guard Cadet had to get in his face.
Just to clarify:
I can do 70 push ups in two minutes,100 sit ups in two minutes, and run a 6:30 mile.. and not that doesn’t make me a robot or a BOY. It makes me a physically fit female (like so many of my counterparts) who can run laps around your girls on any sports field – BUT ultimately, defend my country and our waterways, which is what I signed up to do. I signed up to defend the constitution and this country so that people like you could misconstrued the truth in an attempt to propel the reputation of your school while simultaneously attempting to ruin that of the Coast Guard.
Our service speaks for itself and does not need me to come to it’s defense, but I do anyway because I have respect and integrity. I am a real girl and so are my shipmates. Please, step up to the plate and face the challenges we do daily at school and in our line of work, then you’ll be free to criticize.
Oh and @TED
Coast Guard Women’s Rugby doesn’t play Conn anymore, because they are D4 and we are D2. One of the last times we played the score was 88-0, Coast Guard.
I’d just like all the coasties out there to know that the majority of Connecticut College students respect and welcome to you. I always make an effort to talk to members of the academy any chance I get. I’m always offering coasties a beer, and marveling at their discipline as they politely decline.
At the same time, there is a portion of this campus that just sucks. And they tend to be the loudest, drunkest, and dumbest. I hope the cadet who was injured can somehow identify the students who assaulted him. Trust me, we want these idiots out as much you do.
@Connnnnnnn I’m sorry your efforts have been overshadowed by all of this. Keep it up and the hospitality, in some respects (obviously, you can’t come over and they can’t offer you a beer) will be returned.
@urapu**y not helping man…
Your words are golden and more powerful (and honest) that the embarrasing article. thank you for speaking up!
Your mommy and daddy pay 53k a year…suck it
Wow.
I’m a little ashamed of humanity when I see things like this.
First off, Jerell, good luck being hired by a respectable media outlet with how you write. Yeah, everyone has a bias and it will show; but this article, headed by that ridiculous drawing, smattered with your opinion (no one cares about your opinion, hun, you’re supposed to be reporting), and ends with a nonsensical attempt at a cliche (for who is the coast less clear?) displays literary immaturity.
Also, in reference to that last line: whom.
Secondly, for a student at a liberal arts school, I’m upset by your dehumanizing of Coast Guard members. You turn them into animals, beasts with no sense of right and wrong, preying on your woman like a shark on the scent of blood. I’d hoped with higher education came a knowledge of the value of human life. I guess that’s reserved for the elite, cruising through their $40,000 tuition with mommy and daddy’s money
Last year, at a Conn v. CGA hockey game, a CG cadet was injured on the ice. He lay near the glass, unable to stand. Conn students present pelted him with empty beer cans. The cadets in the stands would have been in the right to bloody up those students the way the cadet in this article was bloodied. When reprimanded by the refs, the Conn students began hurling their ammo at the refs.
All too often, freshman cadets are harassed by Conn students when they visit the campus. Almost miraculously, fights don’t break out. Usually the Conn students chalk it up to them being “pussies” or “chickenshits because [they’re] outnumbered.” Mostly, those Conn students don’t have a numerical advantage, they’ve been hanging out with Coasties in civilian for some time without realizing it. It’s the intervention of senior cadets that prevents violence on Conn.
CG Cadets aren’t saints, they’re human. They do stupid things, they get drunk and act dumb. Unfortunately, there are a few bad seeds. This article makes it look completely one sided, so here is the other side.
Cadets aren’t treated with “terse civility” upon visiting, they’re treated with hostility. The exception is cadets who already know someone there or come onto campus in civilian clothing and “earn their keep” before revealing they’re cadets.
Not all Conn Students are hostile to cadets. Some treat them the way human beings should treat their fellows. It goes both ways.
Also, there aren’t any cadets in uniform on your campus on Thursday nights. Only the freshmen wear uniforms on liberty, and they’re only allowed off base on Saturdays.
Of course, considering the rest of your article, I don’t think anyone expects you to have your facts straight.
The opinions expressed herein are those of a private citizen and in no way reflect the official opinion of the Coast Guard, the Academy, or the Federal Government.
This is low Conn College. You jump one of our brothers, then when he is bleeding from his head and lying on the ground, more of you continue to kick him while he is down like hoodlums, he is all by himself with no one to help him, and then since you are embarrassed by your actions, in an attempt to put the blame off of your school and its “classy” student body, you completely fabricate a story to put the blame on USCGA. You guys have just embarrassed yourselves in front of the entire New London area because New London already knows the truth. Congratulations! You stay classy Connecticut College…
I love the vivid examples in this story. Sounds like the exaggerations people put on things when they are high. O wait, it is Conn College. Get the whole story before you embarrass yourself. I also find it funny that the 4 Conn guys were outside the room, and the cadet was inside. Take a hint Conn fellas. If a cadet has game like that when he is wasted, then you guys really wouldn’t have a chance if he was sober.
Everyone knows Conn used to be an all girls school, and it is not the cadets fault they want to have a good time. I’m surprised it only took 4 Conn college guys to take out 1 cadet. I find it weird because as far as I can see Conn girls are still chasing cadets like crazy. Sounds like jealousy to me…
What is the difference between raw fear and fear…?
Hey Jerrell, we know your a freshman over there, so I recommend accepting the fact that cadets will be stealing your girls for the next three years… have a good one.
This posting is the reason Conn students dislike Coasties: their entire bases for being on campus is to hit-on women.
Honestly, during my four years at Conn, I rarely encountered Coasties on campus so I was surprised when a fellow graduate said that what she most disliked about the college was being constantly harassed by Coastie guys “who were everywhere.” While most Conn students respect the work of Coast Guard students, we resent the fact that our college is treated like a meat market. Maybe if Coasties made more of an effort to spend time on campus at the many many worthwhile academic, cultural, and social, events without hounding women, they would be considered more socially dignified and welcomed on campus. Until that point, they will continued to be understood as hard-working men of service lacking in civility, misunderstanding of modern male-female social expectations, and as individuals who completely disregard the sober, cultural, and thoughtful, aspects of our college while “hunting” for women.
The last time I heard such a ridiculously fabricated story, I was researching what Scientologists really believed.
This story is almost as bad as the plot of Avatar… but so similar… The evil coasties invaded your perfect, pristine environment, looking only to destroy it and take your energy, because all coasties know how to do is destroy.
But you, the noble Camels of Pandora banded together to take down a single scary violent (injured) coastie.
It’s only a matter of time until the coastie in question comes to love your society, and becomes one of you… and then he starts hating coasties, and turns on his own kind.
Jerell, seriously, journalism isn’t your niche, but fictitious writing obviously is.
Mind filling us in on what happened, then?
Ohhh Andrew. I am assuming you can?
I was not there when it happened, and have yet to hear any shred of truth from that night, the same as you.
I know for a fact however that there was indeed a heinous crime committed. And that crime is the childish smearing of the United States Coast Guard.
Classy stuff. Really sad to hear about this.
@Sophomore Zoë Lieb
Really? You are complaining about how coasties are the only ones that constantly try to grind on you at dances? I know for a fact that regular Conn guys do the exact same thing. Either way, if you don’t want to dance with someone, it’s simple… dont dance with them.
From a Cadet:
For a note, all criticisms addressed above to “Conn College” are meant (of course) for Mr. Mays, the author of the posted article, and for whomever committed the assault against our drunken – albeit himself in very, very deep trouble- shipmate.
If you are neither of the parties specifically mentioned above, please pardon our zeal. We’re just frustrated that something so slanderous could be permitted publication, and left unbalanced. The Coast Guard Academy and Conn College are each excellent institutions that promote good moral character and solicit to good people to fill their halls. The purpetrators on both sides of the other night’s events – or of any illicit events between our schools – mark an exception to the rule. Not the rule itself.
Pardon my rushed typing: perpetrators*
I (as mentioned in the article) called campus safety that night and it was a messy situation to say the least. I’m not going to point fingers and say “Coasties are bad,” or “Conn kids are bad,” but I think it’s undeniable that in this situation a guy from the Coast Guard Academy made some bad decisions and that several students from Connecticut College also made some bad decisions.
Accusations that this article is slanderous are simply false. The facts presented in this article are true: a coastie came to conn, got drunk, got “aggressive,” got beaten up by conn students, became more aggressive (understandably so), and then was taken by Conn Campus Safety. Done.
“Can’t we all just get along?”
This is a presentation of facts in much the same way a two year old would tell his parents that a cup broke…it leaves things out. It reads like a cheap horror story with a bloodied, shirtless, dehumanized lunatic emerging from the woods at the unsuspecting innocent teens and chasing them around campus, until our protagonist, you, takes action and saves the day.
Further, the author gives their opinion repeatedly and paints a picture of cadets being predators of Conn women. How he mentions cadets that night being jeered at in a neutral manner, that’s a presentation of fact.
You don’t have to lie to commit slander, a misrepresentation of the truth is often worse. Sorry you had such a traumatic night. The impression left by this article says you’ll be scarred for a while.
It’s true that the narrative tone of the article paints a picture of the CG student in a negative light. As far as I can tell, the freshmen who were “rushed” did not have anything to do with the situation; I can’t verify if the CG student did indeed throw punches at them, but if he did then I can’t disagree with the negativity the narrative gives him at the beginning.
Also, I’m not saying I’m some knight in shining armor who descended from the heavens to save the day. I literally went downstairs, saw some people crying, saw a bloody kid and called Campus Safety. If you feel the need to patronize me, fine, but know that all students involved in this incident are at fault.
Also, with the conclusion of the article mentioning that Conn students yelled out snide remarks, I do not see this as the author condoning the statements by any means. In fact, I’m rather disgusted that members of the community in which I live would be that rude.
I don’t understand how this article misrepresents facts. Which parts were left out? The part where the Conn kids assaulted a Coastie? The part where a Coastie rushed innocent freshmen? Or how about the part where Campus Safety came and took control of the situation? Unsubstantiated claims do little to prove whatever point it is that you’re trying to make.
Wow. Never in my life have I read a more biased article. Jerell, you should consider a career in…well, now that I think of it, there are no careers I’d like to see a manipulative person like you in. Definitely put this article on your resume, though. It’ll do great things for you.
@Connnnnnnn: thanks for the honesty. you and your friends are the reason we keep coming over
I’m literally laughing at the pussies who were too scared to face one wounded drunk kid 4 on 1 even after he had already been jumped and beaten. and as for your tax dollars im sure your not supporting cga anyway as your rich Connecticut parents have surely dodged taxes to pay for your bmws. fags
Yeah! Well said! That’s exactly how to advance the image of the Coast Guard in a positive matter, keep it up!
Delete this post. You can express yourself in better ways. Respect is a core value…learn it or move across the street.
Just in case you were curious, we’re trying to solve the problem, not make it worse.
You volunteered to support and defend the American public as a member of the armed forces. If you’re going to attack someone, please don’t hide behind the CGA.
How can you possibly say what this Coasties’ main reasoning for being on campus that night was? You say that he “was on campus primarily to seek out girls”. Where are your sources on this? I’m pretty sure the only person who could give this information is him, and I can guarantee you haven’t spoken to him. You better learn the “rules” for citing sources during your time at Conn. Outside Conn’s guarded walls, that will get you into major trouble.
@Zoe, you say you don’t want anyone touching you when you are inebriated, or sober. If you feel like that, you MUST feel the same way about civilian guys as well, which makes me wonder you why you go to these raves at all. If this isn’t true, I’d like to know what you have against the guys over here. I’m a girl who has lived both a civilian and a military life, and I can promise you that I would rather a military man hit on me than a lot of the kids you’ve got over there. At least the majority of our guys know what respect is, and put it into practice. It disgusts me knowing that an article (one that is supposed to be written by a “journalist”) would have a quote like this.
This whole thing is a really sad showing of what we are sacrificing to defend. We are going to school to learn to the best ways to serve all of YOU. Yet we get the fact that “civilians are paying for our educations” flung in our faces. What I hope you realize, is that it isn’t an insult. I would feel much worse knowing that my parents continue putting me through school into my 20’s. Instead, I am living a life you civilians will never understand. Welcome to what America is becoming. You all will graduate from this in a few years, and it will no longer be a concern for you. Yet this will be something that we remember for the rest of our lives. So thanks for nothing.
this is one of the worst pieces of literature i have ever read. i think it made me stupider. you would think someone paying 50 thousand dollar a year for an education would actually make an attempt at learning something about how to write. i mean because conn students dont drink or anything over there and are these model citizens describe above, you would think they would focus more on their studies or something, right. nice article man i think the new york times has some openings in their staff, you should go for it you biased, sexist, illiterate.
COME ON CONN GUYS LETTTTSSSS GETTTTTT SLIZZZZZAARRDD!!!!!! YEAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ObviousTroll is obvious
I just think its funny that CGA beats conn in everything… even school rankings… So.. our girls are probably not the best looking.. but who needs that when CGA grads are making over 50 thousand a year when they graduate?
I think its funny how CGA beats Conn in everything… even school rankings… and ya maybe our girls arent better looking, but who needs that when CGA grads are making over 50K a year after graduation..
Good luck with that career hunting camels..
Oh and whoever wrote this article just proved my point… 50,000 a year for that..
um excuse me @Wowswer, I’m not sure who’s side you’re really on here but I’m pretty sure my boyfriend (who is also a cadet) and maybe even a few others would consider me to be good looking. Not only that, but the women at USCGA are strong, intelligent people who are going places in the world. But then again if you really are that shallow and only care about looks, then maybe you should think about the fact that a thirty percent of college-aged women are obese…oh by the way, EXCEPT at USCGA. That would be zero percent.
Intelligence, work-ethic, personal skills, and a willingness to serve are traits that you can’t get from a plastic surgeon. Newsflash: Beauty isn’t skin deep.
Fortunately for us, we have girls that have all that AND the looks to back it up. So please, don’t generalize. Love the support, just don’t show it at the expense of our own classmates.
BGB runs fast.
thank you <3
Space Shuttle
honestly, to the 4 conn guys who jumped the cadet, you are lucky there wasn’t 2 cadets. you guys would not have known what hit you. yeah, you’re tax dollars help pay for our schooling, but we cadets who are actually paid actually have to pay taxes every year, unlike most of the Conn student body who is unmployed, so our taxes help pay for our school, and the streetlights, and sidewalks, and…what do you know? our own schooling.
so to the Conn student body, i ask you this:
what will you be doing after you graduate?
how will you pay off your accumulated debt?
how will you find a job?
what will you think when you look back at your college days and realize, “damn, it took me and three othere guys to take down ONE drunk cadet who is now serving our country bravely and honorably?”
in fact, why dont you think about that stuff right now, and maybe next time you’ll think twice about damaging government property, and you better get the hell out of there if the ratio is smaller than 4 conn “bros” to 1 drunk cadet
I accidentally the whole article. Is that bad?
Here’s the unbiased, honest truth. No one will ever agree on what actually happened that night. Both sides have their stories and there’s no telling which one is correct. However, this article is the worst piece of journalism I have ever read. It is full of loaded words and completely biased. I’ve been seeing lately that people in this country have forgotten about respect. This article is a perfect example of that. This cadet serves our country and will continue to do so for quite a few years, but here you are making him look like a criminal. The author of this article and the artist of that drawing owe the CGA an apology.
The students who run this paper need to understand the image that they are portraying by running drivel such as this. The illustration at the top of the article is nothing more than an attempt to incite further animosity between the two institutions. The article is shamelessly biased and overly dramatic,which lends zero credibility to the author, artist and student body.
Report the facts, and leave the dramatics to the theater department.
BGB Runs fast
thank you ;-p
Wow, talk about screwed up journalism. It seems as though the entire beginning of the story is missing. Doesn’t anyone wonder why the cadet was all bloody? A group of four Conn College kids ganged up on him and beat the crap out of him. WHY IS THAT NOT IN THE ARTICLE?????? I think it’s funny that it takes four Conn College kids to beat up one cadet. I guess that’s their idea of a fair fight.
Did you read the article?
Copied and pasted:
“He said that he got kicked out of a room by a couple of girls, and four Conn guys came and beat the hell out of him,” said King. “He was really hammered when he was telling the story. But if I were to guess, I’d say the girls kicked him out, and the guys thought he was giving them a hard time so they beat him up.”
BGB is soft like kitten
and i fall like rhino…or wildebeest
Hey Zoe,
As a young sophmore, aren’t you under the age of 21? Wouldn’t that make it illegal for you to be “inebriated”? Apparently daddy can count the tuition, but u can’t count your own age.
Maybe you should have stayed on a lease were you belong along with all of the other ignorarnt, uneducated morons at Conn.
Hey now, leave the low blows out. Generalizing and posting loaded comments sparked this whole thing in the first place.
(Ps-Just a side note…if you are going to call someone ignorant and uneducated…be sure you spell it right…otherwise, it kinda defeats your point.)
Sorry Conn, everyone has their bad apples.