No matter what people have been claiming all week, the riot last weekend was a prime example of the ignorant, naïve mob mentality at this university. Although it has its share of coherent individuals with productive ways of spending a weekend, a big chunk of the student body acts as though these streets are its drunken playground.

Some kids flock in from a sheltered upper-middle class life and suddenly realize they don't (usually) have to answer to Mom for acting irresponsibly. While they are not in class preparing to become the materialistic cubicle zombies of tomorrow, they feel the need to press the limits of blind debauchery; first with careless alcohol use and now by instigating riots. Oh yes, this little event was well advertised days in advance by word of mouth. The police obviously knew, for while you watched the game they lined up in the streets, ready to face the horde.

Columnist Mike Still even seemed to convey disappointment in the lack of "mass destruction," and cites the "myth of the violent Penn State riot." Most of you don't know about a local man who got caught in the way of the mob and was brutally trampled. Luckily a few came to his aid, but the damage was done. That's reality, kids. Be thankful if a face full of mace is all you had to suffer. And to those of you who were down there that night but claim to have been "just watching," realize that being adjacent to the mob is to become a part of it.