General Discussion

sophisticated military weaponry. A few years ago, in my relatively small college town (many more university students than local citizens), a sometimes homeless, and very harmless well-know wanderer about town was shot and killed by a local cop who thought "he was carrying what looked like a weapon." The saddest thing was that his family, hundreds of miles away, had apparently given him up and just shrugged it all off. Having had occasional interaction with this person, as had many other "solid citizens" I (and many of those others)was deeply saddened by how this was written off and forgotten. More recently some local citizens have begun trying "to do something about the misbehavior" of college students during homecoming weekend. One of the biggest complaints was the blocking of traffic on fraternity row, which sometimes spilled over into other streets. For many decades homecoming day was an accepted, even enjoyable break for the college kids. Forty years ago, give and take a decade or two, things were way wilder and tolerated at the least. I'm a senior citizen, who graduated at that time ( close to the "Animal House" era) and can't believe that the "outraged adults" at that time, looked like swingers compared to their grandkids...or maybe were just taken with a few more grains of salt in the overall scheme of things.