tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035949355013113578.post7931480002317772596..comments2023-10-17T22:56:42.784-04:00Comments on Only in The Republic of Amherst: Google StainLarry Kelleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02614645831526190536noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035949355013113578.post-27791702013978739352012-07-09T13:01:09.555-04:002012-07-09T13:01:09.555-04:00Yep, you aren't anti-student as long as they s...Yep, you aren't anti-student as long as they stay in the back of the bus and in their place.<br /><br />You apparently don't remember those warm May evenings, after the bars closed (in what Larry legitimately refers to as the "ZooMass" days of the 1970s) when you and a thousand or more of your peers would wander (drunkenly) home chanting/singing "<i>Power to the People</i>" and the rest.<br /><br />The "ZooMass" days officially ended on April 16, 1979 when MA raised the drinking age from 18 to 20, thus ending the freshman bar crawl. The Fall of 1980 was also when Gen X -- the post-Baby-Boom generation -- first started coming to college.<br /><br />The Baby Boomers all had their kids in the '80s and they are all beyond the traditional college age now. The alumni with kids out here are the alumni of the 1980s -- not the "ZooMass" era but a far different one than today.<br /><br />And unlike the African-Americans who had roots and family histories in the segregated cities of the Jim Crow South, the college kids are simply going to start choosing to not come here. I say choosing wisely....<br /><br />Been up to Wichendon lately?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035949355013113578.post-90993165940363549912012-07-08T22:47:25.256-04:002012-07-08T22:47:25.256-04:00We are not anti-student here.
We simply expect st...We are not anti-student here.<br /><br />We simply expect students to exhibit some simple human decency. <br /><br />And the record that Larry is making here repeatedly is that apparently some people, including Anon 5:12 p.m, think that simple human decency is too much. AND somehow the stain is on us. <br /><br />Try to figure that one out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035949355013113578.post-55050754572504747952012-07-08T17:29:23.924-04:002012-07-08T17:29:23.924-04:00Yeah, you mean that "happy" era when UMa...Yeah, you mean that "happy" era when UMass was called ZooMass?Larry Kelleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02614645831526190536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035949355013113578.post-57497485879034667202012-07-08T17:12:02.741-04:002012-07-08T17:12:02.741-04:00I think that the Town of Amherst's "perma...I think that the Town of Amherst's "permanent record" is becoming quite stained -- and as there is a shortage of paying college students over the next 15 years, Amherst is going to wither on the vine.<br /><br />Larry should be credited for publicizing just how anti-student Amherst has become -- to parents who still remember the happy college town of the 1980's.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com