Comments on: FULMER CUP SPECIAL: THE GREY PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN!

By: sb

sb — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:57:35 +0000

By an earlier poster’s description and the university’s primary makeup Doe is the wrong color to be a Vandal, and besides he was charged with “affray” which means he must have a crowd within which to perform his violence…. it isn’t always easy to come up with a crowd when you want/need it so give Doe some cred…. I think he deserves it… there is some discipline involved in waiting for that crowd to show….

I must say I have always wondered about the word “Idaho”, it seems like one of those names some has-been actress will name her kid after an unsuccessful attempt at a resurrection of her career with a newly emerging boy actor….or whatever.

By: adam

adam — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:10:26 +0000

but i didn’t work yesterday. i thought that meant you wouldn’t be posting anything…

By: Orson Swindle

Orson Swindle — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:48:40 +0000

Adam–see yesterday’s posts. We got it.

By: adam

adam — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:35:29 +0000

nothing on florida’s latest foray into criminaliticity?

you better write on it, or doe will punch you in the face.

By: Mike P.

Mike P. — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:23:49 +0000

I just don’t think the NCAA can find any original Vandals to ask if they take offense to the name. I believe they went the way of the dodo several centuries ago.

By: Aerobab

Aerobab — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:02:45 +0000

Interesting point, Mike.

Looking at the good ole’ Merriam-Webster:

van-dal:
1) a member of a Germanic people who lived in the area south of the Baltic Sea between the Vistula and the Oder rivers, overran Gaul, Spain, and northern Africa in the fourth and fifth centuries A.D., and in 455 sacked Rome
2) one who willfully or ignorantly destroys, damages, or defaces property belonging to another or to the public.

With that said, how long until Miles cracks down on the “Vandals”? Certainly the school’s namesake is “offensive” to the peoples cited in definition 1)…although maybe they’re allowed to exist since Butler lives up to defintion 2) by vandalizing random white-boy’s faces.

By: hazer

hazer — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 17:58:58 +0000

If I had a dollar for every time you’ve used that pic I’d have about 7 dollars, give or take.

By: psuedosilentobserver

psuedosilentobserver — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 17:55:01 +0000

Yeah, I would say that is a safe bet. It’s a rare event to have any sort of diversity in any class on campus at UI… ISU is just as bad. call it 1 in 150 for someone that isn’t… uh… the color of sour cream.

By: Mike P.

Mike P. — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 16:54:35 +0000

The fact they are students, not athletes, at Idaho leads me to believe these victims were white. Just going by percentages on that one.

http://www.uiargonaut.com/content/view/357/44/

So they got beat down for WWW, walking while white. I could be wrong and please correct me if I am but shouldn’t this be a hate crime? It’s obvious the motive wasn’t robbery.

By: NDTom

NDTom — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 16:15:08 +0000

was there any sacking and/or pillaging involved in this incident? if so bonus points would be in order.