Cops & Crunks

October 6, 2009

Our friend from ODU came to visit this weekend.  At five in the afternoon on Sunday, we received this text:  

“Just woke up.  you longwood kids dont play around.”  

A study by the Roanoke Times concurs.  Longwood, according to an analysis conducted by the newspaper, has the third highest rate of alcohol violations, per capita, of all the colleges in Virginia.  We’re first among state schools.

Don’t chug that handle of Aristocrat and take to the streets in celebration just yet!  The article also details the Longwood University Police’s notorious hounding of alcohol violations.  The Longwood cops commented that they’re just trying to be “good neighbors.”  You know — the type of neighbors who arrest the shit out of everyone on the block.  

Nothing really interesting to be found in the police interview — until we got to the second-to-last paragraph:

“In addition, [Longwood University Police Chief] Beach monitors the buzz about parties and calls the hosts into his office beforehand to remind them of their responsibilities.”

Sooo…how does Chief Beach monitor the party buzz?  Is it consistent, reliable information, or does he just use Facebook?  Also — how the hell does he get the hosts to come to his office?  Does he track them down on his Segway?  In his dreams, perhaps.

In any event, we’re a bunch of sloppy fucking drunks who fall prey to excitable police.  As the article indicates, that’s probably the only reason we ranked so high.  So it’s all the cops’ fault, pretty much.  But — no sense dwelling on that!  Look at these D-Hall photos:

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(photo credit: facebook.com)

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photo credit: facebook.com


Stop the fake, satirical presses!

August 25, 2009

This weekend, a friend posted this video from The Onion News Network.   We watched it and agreed that, yes, the featured protester near the beginning of the video, Lynn Holzer, did look a hell of a lot like former Longwood Spanish professor Susan Hildebrandt.  Dr. Hildebrandt, who moved this summer to teach at Illinois State University, we remembered as a fan of fake news.  Walk by her office in third floor Grainger and you sometimes heard The Colbert Report.  And didn’t she once tell us in Span 201 about how her friend works for The Onion?  Possibly — our Spanish comprehension skills always wavered between sucky and non-existent.  

We contacted her and learned that, yes, it was her.  Effin’ fabulous.  Dr. Hildebrandt said that she took a train up to New York in April and had a great time filming the segment and seeing her BFF, who is head writer for The Onion News Network.         

So that’s all the news for today.  Oh, and Longwood has moved up to #8 in The U.S. News and World Report ranking of Top Public Master’s Universities in the South.  Hell yeah — we’ll take that.

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#9 Winthrop University partakes in a mustache ride from Longwood


Joe Biden went to Longwood. For a semester. Maybe.

August 6, 2009

W&M had Jon Stewart.  Hampden-Sydney had Colbert…for a few semesters before he tranferred to Northwestern.  Now Longwood can claim its own funny man: Vice President Joe Biden!  This from the always-protean notable alumni page on Wikipedia.   A hoax or the real thing?  You decide! 

 

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(photo credit: The Longwood Hole)



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