The proliferation of smart phones makes everyone clutching one of these devices an unwitting journalist.
A simple search on YouTube garners dozens of results from people who captured a few seconds to several minutes of the atmosphere on East College Avenue on Saturday.
So what exactly is ? If the images captured are an accurate description, it's nothing more than drinking, fighting, dancing, shouting and stripping.
In perhaps the most dramatic video, a photographer for the Daily Kent Stater, Philip Botta, straps on a GoPro camera and documents his coverage of the event.
Warning: these videos contain graphic language. Viewer discretion is advised.
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Was nice seeing the future welfare recipients of America get hit with tear gas for being such d-bags.
Maybe, we should position council members at all the dorms while students are moving out at the end of each spring semester, to allocate and collect $20 from each one, to be deposited and held in a "Clean-Up Fest" Fund for the following year. To their anticipated whiney protests... Yes, it IS fair, because everyone, including you- needs to be reminded that your actions, and/or your complaisant attitude towards the actions of your friends, have consequences - and in this case - someone has to pay for those consequences and it's time you (students) foot that bill! Or maybe they might better grasp the concept of "what one does affects everyone" - if a large gathering of locals, threw a dorm to dorm "party" during finals week? We can call it, the How Do You Like It - Fest! Bottom line, College Fest isn't going to go away. This means, we need to come up with a plan of accountability for the students, as well as find a way to recoup the costs.
I'd "whine" too -- and direct you to the nearest sandbox so you can grab some sand and pound it if you think I'm going to pay for something I (not "I" personally) that I was not even at/around.
As a taxpayer, I know that some of my money supports programs/services that I "personally" don't use. But, and this is a big BUT - I do NOT feel that college fest is one of those programs/services! College Fest is nothing more than a big (drunken) blow out party - promoted by students (granted not all) that consistently - requires the safety forces being called in and consistently requires "clean-up" by city workers. So, if it holds that part of my tax dollar goes towards city services that I don't personally utilize - how is it "unfair" to expect less of the student body community? The $20 amount was merely a "supposition." Realistically, a $1.00 per student, per academic year would suffice (less that what a great number of students spend on a latte - a day) to- consistently - recoup the costs to the city. As for the "pound sand" theoretical remark - Nice. Maybe all the city residents should just "short" their taxes and use that line!