College is what you make of it. UMass (and every college campus) has a tendency to have crazy people. The benefit of UMass is that all the crazy/rowdy people tend to gravitate towards ONE residential area (southwest). That means there are less people who just want to screw around in the other areas (not saying there aren’t crazy people other places, and not to say that people in southwest are ALL crazy). Every other residential area was quiet. Except when I was yelling out the window because the place was so damn quiet. Then I went down to the outskirts of southwest just to see what was happening (it took me 10 mins to walk there from my res area).

Don’t say you won’t come here because people are too crazy. I respect everyone’s decision to do what they want, but don’t think that we are a homogeneous student body that whose interests align with those who were arrested or in the videos.

What do we call the cops?

Welcome to UMass, where you waive your rights as a citizen.

I think we should burn the American flag, as it doesn’t mean anything on this campus anymore. Not a damn thing — which is a damn shame for all the people who have died trying to make it mean something.

Again, I WANTED TO STUDY. Not riot, not drink, not anything else.
How stupid I am, thinking that one can do that on a college campus….

I had to go to the library. There was no rioting where I was — a mile away.
I may flunk out of school if I can’t make up what I would have accomplished last night (the library is open all night Sun-Thurs and it is the only time the place is quiet enough to get anything done.

I am no fan of the drunken rioters, but I am no fan of the police either. I would like to take all of them — the drunken yahoos, the cops, the administrators — all of them and dump them in a snowbank in Alaska. Naked.

It is ZooMass not because of the riots but because you are treated like a caged animal. I am so glad that Westfield State now has a doctoral program, it is going to put Planet UMass out of business, very quickly.

P.S. – Our receivers (Pats) were not on their game, don’t blame Brady

P.P.S. – My rice is delicious.

I also think it’s sad that the media is always ready to say something negative about the best public university in New England. We have amazing research going on here, excellent teachers, and our top undergrads go on to some of the most prestigious graduate programs in the country. However, all you ever hear on the news is riots, drinking, and arrests.

The reporter in the piece above even says something about whether or not people will make it to class tomorrow. I will take the liberty of doing some basic arithmetic for him. 27,269 students – 1,500 “rioters” = 25,769 students who are fine to go to class.

But why am I bothering? Anyone who thinks it’s an insult to say one group of people can trow a ball better than another obviously doesn’t have their priorities straight.

Also, it wasn’t a “riot.” It was literally kids standing around yelling, thinking that they were cool, when they just looked like idiots, and ran from the cops right away. Of course they have the audacity to openly rebel, but refuse to take any punishment for it.

southwest gives this place a bad rep. I swear, there are some decent places on campus.