Sally Jenkins of the Washington Post, who has said some amazingly dumb things
about Maryland behavior previously,
seems to have gotten religion. But here are some of her previous
comments, and a few others as well, to underscore our contention that Maryland, and the local media,
is not and has not taken the problem seriously. Please note the third-to-last item, which is (we hope) about as close to an endorsement of fascism as you will ever see in the Washington Post.
- "We ought to grow up and not be so oversensitive about [the band
playing Rock and Roll, Part II]. The band might not play it, but the
students might sing it...I just think this is being made into something
because this is Duke and Duke complains. This is being made into something
more than it is....a couple of people went overboard. It won't happen again.
We're doing everything we can not to let it happen again." Gary
Williams, after violence in College Park. - "I'm tired of all the crap about our fans. They're great fans. This
is overkill, what's going on right now. Everybody should shut up. They're
good fans." Gary Williams - My door is always open to students. Someone's got to take up for
undergraduate behavior around here, and seeing as how I'm a champion of it
myself, I guess the task falls to me. Sally Jenkins - The first point that needs to be made on behalf of the Terps' student body
is, they threw water bottles at Duke, not Molotov cocktails, okay? Sally
Jenkins - The Terps students have refused past entreaties to give up their
hooliganism -- because they have suffered their share of abuse at the hands
of other student bodies and understand its value. Sally Jenkins - "It was a riot mentality," said the Theta Chi frat house
philosopher known as "Lord Of," who spoke on condition of
anonymity. "When we beat Duke, we riot, and when we lose to Duke, we
riot. The police should accept it." From The Washington Post, after
the Final Four. - Here's a really [funny thought]: Anyone from Duke complaining about
student behavior. Sally Jenkins