Tag Archives: Penn State

Krampus fever sweeps nation, enflames Ypsilanti

By Mark | December 12, 2011

All of a suden, it seems that Krampus is everywhere. I got a note a few days ago from someone telling me that I’d be getting a call from NPR, as they were working on story about a Krampus festival that folks were working to launch in Philadelphia. I guess, since we started our event […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Anthony Bourdain, Brothers Grimm, costumes, dressing up in costumes and lying to people, Jerry Sandusky, Krampus, Krampus Ball, Krampus grants, Krampusdeep, Krampuslauf Philadelphia, Martin Thoburn, masks, pagan, parades, Philadelphia, Stevens Point, The Mad Tinkers, torches, Wisconsin | 7 Comments

It’s been almost five years since EMU’s cover-up of Laura Dickinson’s murder, and, thankfully, it hasn’t been forgotten

By Mark | November 20, 2011

For those of you who didn’t catch it, EMU was mentioned in the New York Times a week or so ago. Unfortunately, it wasn’t anything good. It was in relation to the Penn State pedophilia case. EMU, it seems, finds itself in an elite group of American universities – those that have been caught purposefully […]

Posted in Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Clery Act, Eastern Michigan University, EMU, Geoff Larcom, Jerry Sandusky, John A. Fallon III, Laura Dickinson, murder, President Fallon | 11 Comments

UC Davis Chancellor escorted from her office as hundreds of students line her path, staring in deafening silence

By Mark | November 20, 2011

By now, you’ve probably seen the the footage of the UC Davis students being pepper sprayed. It’s disgusting stuff. The students are sitting down in a line, across a sidewalk, protesting recent tuition hires, and, ironically enough, episodes of police brutality elsewhere in the University of California system. They are peaceful. No one is yelling. […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Other, Uncategorized | Also tagged bullying, Celeste Langan, coughing up blood, Eastern Michigan University, Geoffrey O’Brien, Glen Greenwald, higher education, Joe Paterno, John Pike, kids today, Linda Katehi, Linda P.B. Katehi, Nathan Brown, non-violence, pepper spray, police brutality, police state, Robert Hass, shame, solidarity, student activism, students today aren't worth a damn, surveilance, surveillance culture, Surveillance State, tuition protests, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, University of California, University of Michigan, violence vs non-violence, walk of shame | 22 Comments

Conspiracy theories take root around the Penn State pedophilia case

By Mark | November 10, 2011

As it’s been a while since we’ve had a good conspiracy theory thread here on the site, and as I haven’t yet opined on the whole Penn State pedophilia scandal, I thought that I’d move the following clip up to the front page. It comes from the website of the New England Sports Network, and […]