Posted on 02/03/2011 12:55:45 PM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
ITHACA--The Cornell University Police Department shut down the second annual “Epic Snowball Fight on the Arts Quad” Wednesday, apprehending a student, confiscating tin shields and knocking over a six-foot snow penis.
Chief of Police Kathy Zoner said CUPD officers did not plan on breaking up the event but had to do so in response to a call-in complaint. The officers decided that the event had to be stopped because it was “putting both people and property at the potential for injury and damage,” Zoner said.
As a police car approached from the western end of the quad, the hundreds of Cornellians who had pelted each other with smiles dropped their slushy weapons with disgusted frowns.
“Fuck the police!” someone shouted. “Hit the cops!” yelled another.
Soon, some had rearmed, and a snowball glanced off the police car windshield. Then another. A third landed with a thud. An officer stepped out of the car and was promptly hit in the chest.
For 15 minutes police worked their way through the crowd, but the students — who were packed around the terrace of Olin Library as tightly as the snowballs they hurled back and forth — continued to fire.
One officer, who thought a snowball had been directed at the police, “identified an individual who he thought was involved,” Zoner said.
That individual, Tony, M. Eng. ’11, who declined to give his last name, said police took him and told him to place his hands on the police car.
Tony said the officer took his information and asked if there was “anything in your backpack to worry about.”
“Of course not, officer,” replied Tony, who added that he did have his financial engineering textbook. Upon his release, he was told the officer would run a background check for prior incidences of misconduct.
“I just threw a snowball randomly into the crowd … They said I hit their feet,” Tony said after being released by the officers. “They upset me a lot.”
Eventually, hopes for continuing the snowball fight melted away. But Tony was not alone in decrying the CUPD’s actions.
Caryn Berley ’13 said a police officer told her he “didn’t want to do the paperwork for people getting hurt.”
“[The officer] was condescending and rude,” Berley said. “I wanted to be aware of my rights … It seemed a little strange to me because I didn’t realize you could restrict such things as snowball fights.”
The University appeared to condone last year’s snowball fight on the Arts Quad, sending photographers to the event and posting a video of it on a University blog entitled “Snowball fight!”
Additionally, Gannett’s official website says that, among other things, “having a snowball fight [is] proven to help [sufferers] of the blues feel better.”
Zoner said the officers understood that “of course people need to release and have fun,” but added they also “need to be cognizant of the dangers they put others in.”
Zoner said some of the snowball throws risked breaking the windows of Olin Library.
“Uninvolved parties have the right to safe passageway,” she added.
“I understand why people wanted to blow off steam, but if we get a complaint we need to address it,” Zoner said, adding that students should “blow off steam productively.”
However, some students disagreed with Zoner.
“If the Cornell police are the same people really stressed by the suicides, why are they asking us to stop relieving stress in a healthy way?” Chris Leyen ’13 said. “This just shows the level of maturity they actually give us credit for.”
>risked breaking the windows of Olin Library.
Well, then.
Underworked Cops.
Preening Bureaucrats.
Nannyism rampant.
Zero Tolerance.
Snowballs?
Thank You for Keeping the Peace, boys. Good Job.
A dream come true' Triplets prove challenging, rewarding for Enfield pair (Ithaca lesbians)
Ithaca Journal | Originally published January 10, 2006 | By DARISE JEAN-BAPTISTE
Posted on Tuesday, January 10, 2006 2:01:01 PM by Behind Liberal Lines
ITHACA--According to the Ithaca Journal , a pair of Ithaca-area lesbians were able to conceive and birth triplets through in vitro fertilization and a sperm bank donor.
One mother, Kathy Zoner, is the assistant director and captain of the Cornell University Police.
The other mother, Kathleen Pasetty, is owner of a coffee shop on the Ithaca Commons.
Cornell is the second highest rank in the military...
More “feminizing” of America. The female chief thinks students “need to be cognizant of the dangers they put others in.” In a snowball fight.
But then again, this is Cornell. My socialist ex-brother-in-law would have agreed with her - wholeheartedly.
“...a six-foot snow penis.”
There’s your problem right there.
A SNOWBALL fight. Oh...the HUMANITY!!! Wow...thank GOD the police were on the scene. Far too much major criminal activity such as this goes unreported and isn’t prevented!!!! Why if some little weasel hadn’t called the cops, think of the ramifications. All of the, uh, COLD HANDS!! Wet coats!! Disturbed snow drifts, upsetting the harmonious balance of nature. Squirrels and birds might have been frightened. At least a hundred lives were undoubtedly saved, thanks to the quick action of police and one smack-off fink.
stupid liberals.
everything is a right.
You do not have a right to throw things at people without their agreement that they are indeed snow combatants and it is advisable to get that in writing.
Lazy cops are also pretty useless
THAT’S funny!!!
Definitely not a ping.
You are both too smart by half - at least. Tony didn't give his last name.
And, he ain't 11, either.
Tony is of indeterminate ethnicity and a mechanical engineering student expecting to graduate in 2011; i.e. he is a presently a Senior.
Sounds as if the university needs to change its name from Cornell to Corny Hell.
CUPD is a knavish lad.
police took him and told him to place his tongue on the police car.
I can see six or eight of them with their tongues
stuck to the trunk....or better yet to the six foot
snownis.
Had a dog been available it probably would have been a different story.
If the students had any smarts, they would've built a snow dog to distract the cops and keep them occupied.
Big RED!!! feh...
Imagine thinking they could have a snowball fight on Campus. The cops should have pulled a Kent State on em.
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