I disagree that the decision to cancel a beloved tradition that's been around for nearly a century is taking the easy way out. Just look at the negative reaction on this board.
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What are the underlying problems you refer to? College aged students binge drinking, partying and deciding to start breaking ****? What exactly is the fix for that? Make ISU a dry campus? Prohibition?
And are you referring to the Ames police when you include the City of Ames as part of the problem?
Iowa State is supposed to be about creativity, innovation, ingenuity.....when faced with a challenge, they beat the challenge. Not abandon it.
I don't know what to tell you. How long before they should abandon it? Should they wait another 7-8 riots from now?
They should have modded VEISHEA and kept it. The statement being if their is rioting again they will cancel it for good. There was no official warning of this. People bring up events of the 80's none of these kids were born till the mid 90's. Punishing the present/future for events of the past is goofy
Agree to disagree.
Don't see why they couldn't even run Veishea during day time hours on campus...include a parade. Make it all family oriented and still be able to show off the various colleges of what ISU has to offer. As a kid, I grew close to ISU because of the parade and getting to see all the neat things that Veishea had to offer that had nothing to do with partying or drinking.
It's still in the court system isn't it? We as taxpayers are still paying for it aren't we?
As a season ticket holder, I paid for Bubu's education, I guess I feel like I have a right to care about it. Maybe everyone but the season ticket holders needs to get over it, if that's the case, because they aren't footing the bill.
I don't care if Leath is a **** or if he wanted to boot Bubu or if he doesn't care about Veishea. All I care is that he grows ISU and makes it the best Land Grant in America or goes out trying. Veishea can come back...rebranded and back to an academic focus if students want it. Imo this is on the students, not Leath. He has more important stuff to worry about.
Did you forget 2004? This already took place. Are you thinking they should just threaten to get rid of VEISHEA and never go through with it?
How do you know the money you spent on season tickets went directly to Bubu's scholarship? Did you earmark it?
Sorry, but that is just really dumb.
furthermore, if they don't use it on that...it's going to go to something else that may or may not be of any value/use
Do you know that for sure? Does the basketball team get to distribute out unused scholarship money or is that just pocketed into the general fund?
Sorry, but telling people to get over a current court case is dumb. One which ISU appears to be losing according to the most recent rulings and Bubu being enrolled at Iowa State and on scholarship last year.
Why don't you just get over it, that people care. Everyone can have an opinion.
I'm not defending any choices he's made, I'm looking at the outcome and ISU somewhat screwed up on how to handle it.
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https://www.veishea.iastate.edu/en/about_veishea/history_of_veishea/modern_history/
History only says 3 plus the new one marks 4 that took 25 years. Double that and you have 50 yrs to make 8 riots.
1988, 1992, 1994, 1998, 1999, 2004, and 2014 were all years a riot took place. That's 7 in 26 years.
http://www.kcci.com/blob/view/-/26908820/data/1/-/n17xq6z/-/veishea-report.pdf
My only major issue with him was losing the Harkin Institute and documents because he was willing to restrict their academic research because of the Mustache.
Didnt Kim Jong Ill get 100% of the votes in the North Korean elections? I thought of that immediately after I read that in your post.
