POT PARTY

Wait Till Next Year To Get Stoned, Kids

In yet another link of an unending chain of controversy at the University
of Colorado, students are now threatening a riot over rumors of the
university attempting to end their annual April 20 festivities in which
they congregate on Farrand Field to smoke an illegal drug (marijuana) for
all the world to see.

I've heard many students who advocate pot usage state that it's a peaceful
thing, not like alcohol, which often causes violent acts, so I must ask how
rioting symbolizes the peaceful effect of pot. Now as a CU student myself,
I often feel the university is unreasonable when it comes to alcohol and
drug policy, but something tells me a photograph of 500 stoned college kids
is not the best way for us as students to shake off our party-school image.

When will students realize that we need to at least lie low for a bit to
let the media find their next example for out-of-control college campuses?

Like it or not, it's important that we have at least a somewhat decent
image in the country. Applications are down for next year; the CU Greek
system is still feeling the after-effects of a freshman pledge's death
earlier in the year; not to mention Ward Churchill and the ongoing football
scandals. With all that is going on, the absolute last thing we as students
need is another riot similar to the one on Halloween when students were
shot up with rubber bullets and tear-gassed. Students should realize this
and perhaps wait till next year to get stoned out of their minds to sit on
the field strumming their guitars and hugging their trees.

DAN ENFIELD, CU Freshman, Boulder