The students who were protesting aren't thugs, because they didn't participate in any thuggish behavior. They were PO'd and felt they weren't being taken seriously, so they decided to essentially protest. Nothing wrong with that. I won't comment on whether or not their cause was just or an attempt to feel relevant, because I just don't know enough about it.
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Originally Posted by BigDGeek
Yup...the entire school has been tainted by the stain of a few students behaving badly. Reputation matters, and Mizzou's reputation took a big hit. It'll be a while before it recovers what prestige it had.
FWIW, I am a UT-Austin alum. People still bring up Charles Whitman in conversations with me about UT, and that happened well before I was born. This August will make 50 years since he shot and killed 14 people in and from the UT tower.
Not saying that what went down at Mizzou last semester in any way approaches the notoriety of what Whitman did...I'm using it as an example of how a huge news-making event can still color someone's perceptions decades later.
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I was just up there a few weeks ago checking out the bullet holes and such.
Back 20+ years ago, I helped install an antennae on the top of that tower. I was able to go up through the bell tower to the very tip-top. It was very cool at the time, because the observation deck was still closed to the public, so it made me feel special. lol
This last time, I went up to the Carillon room and into the clock works. Guess who made the clock works? (I'm going to locate a photo I took)