A drunken riot adjacent to the University of Oregon campus last night — the Friday before the start of fall classes — drew some 50 police officers, who used tear gas to disperse a crowd of 400, according to reports by the Associated Press, The Oregonian, and KATU.com, which has video of the scene. The police, from four different agencies, arrested at least two and possibly as many as nine people (counts varied), including students and a man described by the police as a “transient.” The university’s president, Richard W. Lariviere, said in a written statement that the riot “deeply disappointed” him, the AP reported.
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8 Responses to Police Use Tear Gas to Quell Riot Near U. of Oregon
disembedded - September 26, 2010 at 12:37 am
Get rid of the spam!
amy_l - September 26, 2010 at 12:46 pm
I remember when the police had to be called in to deal with students protesting about important issues. Now it’s just alcohol and overly loud parties that get out of hand. Sigh.
22228715 - September 27, 2010 at 7:41 am
Commenter #2: No question that the student culture has changed. But there are still student protests (although nowadays they are often done with a completed, approved permit which requires hiring a security officer). And years ago, there were plenty of mind/body-alterning substances at those “protests” and other crowd-dependent events. Just a caution to not let nostalgia make your sense of the changes in higher education too fuzzy.
bstevens - September 27, 2010 at 8:49 am
These days most of our student riots are confined to the audience portions of the stadium and fieldhouse. Sigh…(graduate of the 60′s who never used drugs or got drunk)
rideout - September 27, 2010 at 9:51 am
Chronicle, control the spam or many of will stop reading. I am prepared to cancel my subscription forjust this reason.
djhennessey2000 - September 27, 2010 at 9:58 am
I claim no sanctity for my college generation bridging the 70s and 80s; and I don’t have personal knowledge of the 60s/70s years on campus; but that group seemed like they felt liberated by education. I don’t excuse the violence exercised by either side in those years, but they all seemed motivated by something more purposeful than students today fighting for their right to party. Too many seem to want to be liberated from education.cranky
tappat - September 27, 2010 at 11:40 am
When education is liberating, in thought, then people can feel liberated by it, even when such feelings are enhanced by variously consumed substances, and when education is disciplining, in thought, then people can only feel contained and constrained by it, even when such feelings are enhanced by the state of being that is produced by abstemiousness. If police involvement in drunken violence is to be linked to college education, in a positive way, we should see the positive linkages between police containment and academic containment, rather than make specious speculations about the moral character of those subjected to the police action being reported.
washingtonwarrior - September 27, 2010 at 2:40 pm
Why is the fall semester starting so late?