JMU is *THE* party school in Virginia, duhhhh.
Sometime I think the people who don’t go to college are smarter.
The state keeps buying up more and more of Harrisonburg for JMU.
Guess this might be the fruit of that.
Weird how riots are happening all over this country, and the lamestream media?
Crickets.
It wouldn't surprise me if overzealous enforcement of '21-to-drink' may have played a role in the festivities.
A kid knowing that he's about to be busted might be tempted to 'pound it down' before the heat arrives, and quickly get loaded, with all the problems that that entails. If an 18-through-21-minus-1-day-year-old wouldn't feel the need to 'look over his shoulder' for the fuzz, chances are that the party may have remained friendly and calm.
Sturgess II
“Unbelievable. A new low. I’m so ashamed. Almost sorry I missed it.”
“What did you do, human sacrifice?”
“No, just some harmless fun.”
—Boon and Katy, “National Lampoon’s Animal House”
WVU use to have a large block party every year until some idiots had to involve gun play (no one killed but I think one or two wounded). The school immediately went to work to shut it down for future years and started offering an alternative event. They have been successful and the block party in now only a memory for old timers like myself.
What the hell are you talking about, Officer Friendly? That's when the fun begins.
I sent my Daughter there.
It seemed pretty laid back for those four years. Much less intense than the schools I went to.
Not much to do at JMU...
Go Dukes.
‘87 grad here, and I don’t think they had this block party back then—not sure, though. Of course, when I was there, JM’s across South Main from the Quad was actually still a *bar*. Good one, too.
JMU’s always been a pretty serious party school, even back into the mid-1980s, but like somebody else said, they’ve been laid-back about it. Well, mostly. You should’ve seen what the Bluestone dorms (Gifford, Wayland, etc.) looked like a few weeks before the end of spring semester. They actually made those dorms co-ed just before I graduated because they found out that co-ed dorms (including Bell, the one I lived in all three years I was there) had a lower rate of vandalism and thousands of dollars less damage from partying.
Nope, not much to do in Harrisonburg except determine which way the wind’s blowing by whether it smells like live poultry or dead poultry, but it sure is beautiful country up there. And JMU, riots aside, is a damn fine university.
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James Madison? I am really surprised.