Five Quakers charged in attack on Princeton student

Anchorage Daily News ^ | December 3, 2002

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The Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA (December 3, 7:44 a.m. AST) - Five University of Pennsylvania students were charged with beating, kicking and pouring motor oil on a Princeton student visiting for a debate tournament.

The five surrendered Monday and were charged with aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and making terroristic threats, police said. They were released pending a hearing Wednesday.

[PAR35]

The story makes no further mention of their religion or lack thereof.

[Vidalia]

Just like a bunch of crazed AFLAC salesmen...

[DWSUWF]

We shall give thee such an ass-whipping!

[ClearCase_guy]

It's a religion of Peace, I tell you!

[steveo]

"They all have beer."

'nuff said

[Equality 7-2521]

Was it Quaker State?

[xJones]

I was just going to say, there's nothing in the article that the students were Quakers. Maybe they poured Quaker State motor oil, but there's no reason to believe this was a small mob of drunken Quakers. Now that would be a first...

[anniegetyourgun]

So will the headline writer at the Anchorage paper be fired, or does the paper have it out for the Friends Church?

[babylonian]

Expect an oatmeal joke, soon.

[Corin Stormhands]

Five University of Pennsylvania students were charged with beating, kicking and pouring motor oil on a Princeton student visiting for a debate tournament.

[Xenalyte]

The story makes no further mention of their religion or lack thereof.

It does, however, give their names: Thomas Bispham, Tavraj Banga, Philip Balderston, David Hochfelder, and Steven Stolk.

I think I used to smoke Tavraj Banga in college. (But then, I didn't go to school up north.)

[gridlock]

I think the Quakers might be the name of the UPenn football team.

I think the headline writer just thought he was being cute. He was wrong, of course.

[Billthedrill]

I'm thinking they were alluding to the team mascot, the Quakers, and not the notably pacifistic religion by that name. These Guys.

Either that or these fellers take their debate team very seriously...

[tracer]

You misspelled "asse"..... 8~)

[constable tom]

Uh, they were Penn students; the Penn Quakers. It's not their religion, it's the nickname for their school.

[johniegrad]

It's not a religious reference. It is the college's team names just like Ohio State's "Buckeyes", Michigan's "Wolverines", and BYU's "Murdering Mormons".

[Saundra Duffy]

Was it Quaker State?

That is sooooo funny! Does anyone know what they were so mad about?

[Consort]

They were feeling their Quaker Oats.

[AuH2ORepublican]

Well, the team nickname for the University of Pennsylvania is the Quakers, so I don't think the newspaper necessarily has an anti-Friends bias. But I heard that Matt LeBlanc has been warned not to visit Anchorage . . . .

[Hacksaw]

kicking and pouring motor oil on a Princeton student visiting for a debate tournament.

Was it Quaker State oil?