Can you believe the Fountain Avenue incident was a year ago today? Or at least, it will have been starting at around 1 in the morning on Saturday. Time flies!
Don’t party this hard tonight, Wesleyan.
November 13, 2008 – 1:47 PM
The Middletown Police Department’s report on the Fountain incident has been released. An MPD press release announcing the completion of the department’s investigation notes that it concluded that “the officers were faced with what they described as a large, unruly and hostile crowd,” and, as a result, “the officer’s [sic] use of force was ‘objectively [...]
November 13, 2008 – 12:47 PM
The Middletown Police Department’s report on the Fountain incident has been released. An MPD press release announcing the completion of the department’s investigation notes that it concluded that “the officers were faced with what they described as a large, unruly and hostile crowd,” and, as a result, “the officer’s [sic] use of force was ‘objectively [...]
November 12, 2008 – 12:49 PM
The WSA’s recommendations in response to last May’s incident on Fountain Avenue have been adopted by the Assembly and are now available on the WSA homepage. The WSA will use these recommendations as a starting point to work with the administration to make improvements to University policy. Real change is possible, and we [...]
November 12, 2008 – 11:49 AM
The WSA’s recommendations in response to last May’s incident on Fountain Avenue have been adopted by the Assembly and are now available on the WSA homepage. The WSA will use these recommendations as a starting point to work with the administration to make improvements to University policy. Real change is possible, and we [...]
September 22, 2008 – 9:45 PM
Tomorrow afternoon there will be a critical opportunity to have your voice heard on campus policy issues.
The WSA has created a commission to review all campus policy in order to prevent the recurrence of incidents like Fountain Ave. The commission needs your input!
All students are urged to attend this discussion, whether you have specific [...]
September 22, 2008 – 8:45 PM
Tomorrow afternoon there will be a critical opportunity to have your voice heard on campus policy issues.
The WSA has created a commission to review all campus policy in order to prevent the recurrence of incidents like Fountain Ave. The commission needs your input!
All students are urged to attend this discussion, whether you have specific [...]
September 18, 2008 – 1:37 AM
Possibly this discussion is tired by now, but an anonymous tipster points out the emerging comment discussion on the latest Courant article about the Fountain incident. Most of the comments seem to revolve around how we, as Wesleyan students, are over-entitled, privileged, whiny brats who only want to party and don’t deserve to be [...]
September 18, 2008 – 12:37 AM
Possibly this discussion is tired by now, but an anonymous tipster points out the emerging comment discussion on the latest Courant article about the Fountain incident. Most of the comments seem to revolve around how we, as Wesleyan students, are over-entitled, privileged, whiny brats who only want to party and don’t deserve to be [...]
September 17, 2008 – 1:28 PM
The Hartford Courant interviewed WSA President Mike Pernick ’10, who says (obviously) that the report issued by the Fountain Avenue Working Group this week leaves a lot of room for improvement:
…”Right now, there is no written university policy dictating when, why and how Middletown police are called onto campus,” Pernick said.
Isn’t that kind of the [...]
September 17, 2008 – 12:28 PM
The Hartford Courant interviewed WSA President Mike Pernick ’10, who says (obviously) that the report issued by the Fountain Avenue Working Group this week leaves a lot of room for improvement:
…”Right now, there is no written university policy dictating when, why and how Middletown police are called onto campus,” Pernick said.
Isn’t that kind of the [...]
September 15, 2008 – 5:24 PM
As you already know if you have checked your WesMail, the official consensus report on the Fountain incident (#1…) is available for your perusal here.
EDIT: commentary moved to comments.
September 15, 2008 – 4:24 PM
As you already know if you have checked your WesMail, the official consensus report on the Fountain incident (#1…) is available for your perusal here.
EDIT: commentary moved to comments.
September 11, 2008 – 11:37 PM
Roughly 30 students were peacefully enjoying musical stylings of Barefoot Junction outside 40 fountain today when psafe, middletown police, and a k-9 unit showed up. Is this the end of Fountain as we know it? Is wesleyan the new police state? Certainly something has changed at our wonderful university. If [...]
September 11, 2008 – 10:37 PM
Roughly 30 students were peacefully enjoying musical stylings of Barefoot Junction outside 40 fountain today when psafe, middletown police, and a k-9 unit showed up. Is this the end of Fountain as we know it? Is wesleyan the new police state? Certainly something has changed at our wonderful university. If [...]
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