Posted on 10/07/2015 9:56:57 AM PDT by MichCapCon
Slinging a hammock between two trees on campus is a criminal offense at Michigan State University, punishable by up to 90 days in jail and a $100 fine. The school is worried about environmental damage to trees.
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Thank God college is but a distant memory.
college is lefty whack job finishing school
Glad they’re still teaching grammar, though.
The scary thing is the fact that MSU is practically Amish compared to UofM.
A lot of college traditions are based on past student protests, legitimate and contrived. Bonfires, mundane objects made into trophies, mascots kidnapped, etc.
Today’s students are a great disappointment, because they are more rabid nanny staters than the nannies themselves. In loco parentis? It’s not really necessary when the students detect racism, sexism, homophobia, and global warming every time the sun goes behind a cloud.
They would no more imagine slinging a hammock between trees - for comfort or protest - than they would having lunch with Ann Coulter. You can remind them that trees have no nerve endings, no emotions, no memory. You can remind them that trees can sustain damage and continue living and growing. You can remind them that the wood used to build dwellings is from trees. You can remind them that trees that don’t live and grow will be replaced by ones that do.
Students are truly inmates in an open prison, so institutionalized that they can’t confront life beyond the bubble.
The University has the power to make law?
Let’s just get to the end game of government busybodies. Everything is illegal.
Actually, if you were to allow some teenage/20 nothing sling a hammock between two trees, in all likelihood they would do it wrong and injure the tree, potentially killing it.
To my mind this is about preserving the university grounds from the idiot students who simply could care less about anything except that they want to hang their hammock in a particular place. I can see it now...a hammock strung between two saplings that are then bent and damaged from the weight.
I miss the annual and spontaneous “nude” Olympics (as a spectator anyway). That is one tradition that was actually further ruined by social media. The university police learned of the event as soon as the student body and started making arrests in mass.
So sad.
Very interesting. Now I know why we have no need for reeducation centers they have been here for years.
It’s like hearing fingernails drawn across a chalkboard when the masses misuse the word lay for lie.
They come with fire, they come with hammocks... gnawing, biting, breaking, hacking, burning, snoozing! Destroyers and usurpers, curse them!
I have heard of a campus where one male dorm had a tradition of every resident streaking on one particular night.
The male dorm became a female dorm some years later and the plucky women kept up the tradition, bless them.
The whole point, get rid of us being free people under a system that is inherently unfree.
In europe things are illegal unless the law permits. In America it was set up thst everything was legal unless the law explicitly said it wasn’t. Europe is an example,of a system entirely framed around positive law, ie laws givng power to the govt to do things to you. America is an example - was - of a system set up with a framemof negative law, ie spelling outminmlaw what the govt was not allowed to do to you, namely infringe on your God given rights, property, freedom, and liberties.
Same concept concerning the constitution. Set up to restrain government from tyranny over the states and individuals. Negative law, ie laws spelling out what the govt cannot do to you. Liberals are extremely positive law, ie laws telling govt what it can do to people.
But when this loony bin needs to construct a new building, I’ll bet they have no issue taking down some of their tree gods.
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