Student arrested for essay’s imaginary violence Allen Lee, 18, faces two disorderly conduct charges over the creative-writing assignment, which he was given on Monday in English class at the northern Illinois school. Students were told to “write whatever comes to your mind. Do not judge or censor what you are writing,” according to a copy [...]
Gabriel: To keeping silence I resigned My friends would think I was a nut Turning water into wine Open doors would soon be shut So I went from day to day Though my life was in a rut ’till I thought of what I’d say Which connection I should cut I was feeling part of [...]
So apparently some kid at CU decided to shoot his mouth off in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings, and as is typically the case in these things, people have risen to the rabble-rouser’s bait. You can read the story here. This is not the reason I was staring slack-jawed at the television a [...]