Saturday afternoon, OSU fans had something to be proud of. Our beloved Buckeyes finished off a perfect season and are headed to the Fiesta Bowl. But after yesterday, OSU students should do nothing but hang their heads in shame.
From about 12:30 to 3:30 a.m. yesterday, drunken OSU students burned couches, overturned cars, threw beer bottles at police and tore down trees and street lights. Students proved once and for all we can’t celebrate like sane human beings.
It seemed after the fans couldn’t manage to tear down the goal posts, they decided to tear down the city.
In one night, a group of Buckeye fans took matters into their own hands and managed to tarnish the victory the football players worked so hard for. The players earned their win with class, and the so-called “fans” couldn’t let them enjoy their sweet success — instead, they turned the nation’s cameras onto themselves, and now the Fiesta-Bowl-bound team gets a second headline: “OSU students so excited about win, they burn the campus to the ground.”
This riot situation was worse than any the campus had seen before. There were disturbances on several streets; the rowdy participants were running from the last riot location to the next as they were chased by the police. It was obvious the students who were rioting had come out with the intention to riot, and they couldn’t be stopped for anything.
It would be interesting to know how the merry rioters spent their Sunday morning after recovering from their hangovers. Did they walk up 13th Avenue and survey the damage, offering to reimburse the people whose cars were burnt to the ground? Did they call their parents to say, “Hey mom and dad, thanks for wasting your money on four years of an education. I’m so touched by your gratitude, in fact, I decided to throw it all away and risk getting thrown out of school for one night of alcohol-infused idiocy.”
It’s been said before, but it needs to be said again. OSU’s reputation is rapidly getting run into the ground. When graduates apply for jobs, potential employers will be hard-pressed to recognize the merits of an OSU degree without associating the school as that “riot university.” Students from high schools and other area colleges come to our university to create mayhem because they think that’s what we do here.
Selective admissions is becoming a better decision by the minute. This behavior needs to stop, and the first step is weeding out the people who don’t respect Ohio State enough to help give it a positive image.
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