Common Folk Using Common Sense

Hat tip to John Hardin: From the East Tennessean: It has become harder for students to imagine themselves completely safe on their college campuses because of the recent school shootings across the country. The one-year anniversary of the shooting at Virginia Tech is at hand and images of the Northern Illinois shooting still fresh in [...]

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First let’s read an article by The Associated Press: The hunt for a serial rapist spread fear around a college campus Sunday after police linked a 19-year-old woman’s death to at least two other attacks in the area. The woman’s body was found in a field on Friday, nearly a month after she vanished from [...]

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From WSB-TV: A $10,000 reward has been offered for information about the murder of a Walton High School graduate Tuesday near Auburn University. Lauren Burk was found shot to death on a road a few miles north of the Alabama university. Officials said Burk’s boyfriend, identified as Sean McQuade by other students, and other friends [...]

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From CRIME, GUNS, AND VIDEOTAPE: Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL–Illinois politicians gave Chicago’s Mayor Richard M. Daley what he wanted. They made it a felony crime for a law abiding citizen even those holding valid Firearm Owner Identification Cards to carry a handgun for simple self-protection. They’ve known for a long time that violent criminals [...]

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From VillageSoup/Knox County Times: The Merriam Webster Dictionary definition for flatulence is brief: “flatus expelled through the anus.” And while it’s a natural bodily function, it seems some Camden-Rockport Middle School eighth-grade boys are taking it to new heights and making a game of seeing who can expel the loudest and grossest flatus. According to [...]

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From 11Alive.com: A student was shot in a cafeteria Monday [Feb. 11] during a high school gym class, and the suspected shooter was in custody, police said. The injured student, a male in the senior class, had at least two gunshot wounds and was believed to be in critical condition, police spokeswoman Monique Martin said. [...]

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From 11Alive.com: A 19-year-old man was shot outside of McNair High School in Dekalb County on Friday [Feb. 8] night, while a high school basketball game was going on inside. Hundreds of kids were pouring out of the school just after the basketball game when the shooting occurred. DeKalb police are looking for the shooter [...]

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From Oddee: The Effect of Country Music on SuicideThe greater the airtime devoted to country music, the greater the white suicide rate. Love and Sex with RobotsHuman-robot marriages will be legal by 2050. Rectal Foreign Bodies: Case Reports and a Comprehensive Review of the World’s LiteratureThe study reports, among other items: a beer glass, a [...]

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From Georgia Carry: A female student was the victim of an armed robbery Saturday on the campus of Georgia Tech. Below is the email from the Dean of Students. Campus Community, I wanted to inform you of recent criminal activity on the Georgia Tech campus. On Saturday at approximately 4:30 p.m. a female student was [...]

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From the Knoxville News Sentinel, via The War On Guns and Keep And Bear Arms: Jessica Smith, academic scholarship student with dreams of becoming a veterinarian at the University of Tennessee, pulled her bright orange Volkswagen into the Lake Avenue Parking Garage after work at about 10:30 p.m. and began to walk toward the dormitories. [...]

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From MSNBC: The senior thesis of Hillary D. Rodham, Wellesley College class of 1969, has been speculated about, spun, analyzed, debated, criticized and defended. But rarely has it been read, because for the eight years of Bill Clinton’s presidency it was locked away. As forbidden fruit, the writings of a 21-year-old college senior, examining the [...]

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From The Miami Herald: Andrew Meyer, the University of Florida student who was Tasered by campus police in September, may have staged the disturbance in an effort to disrupt the political forum at the Gainesville campus, a state police report concludes. The report from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, released Wednesday by the university, [...]

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From the Orlando Sentinel: Roughly three hours before they died, Tiffany Barwick and Michael Ruschak asked Seminole County deputy sheriffs for protection from the man they feared would kill them. Andrew Allred, Barwick’s former boyfriend, had raided her bank account, tampered with her MySpace page and sent phony messages to her family and friends, she [...]

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From the campus alert email Georgia State University sent to its students recently: From: “Student Email Postmaster” Date: Friday, Oct 26, 2007 6:35 pm Subject: Campus Alert – Carjacking To: No To CC: No CC Campus Alert Carjacking and Kidnaping at K Parking Deck – Suspects arrested and victim uninjured On Friday, October 26, 2007 [...]

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Columbia University said it does not plan to call off a speech by Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, despite pressure from critics including the City Council speaker, who said the Ivy League school was providing a forum for “hate-mongering vitriol.” The US State Department calls Iran a state sponsor of terror, and Ahmadinejad has called the [...]

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