In Which The Chinese Were Angry, And Shots Were Fired

Chinese Students, As A Rule, Don’t Like Tibetan Monks: The NYT reports that Chinese students are angry with the apparent media bias against their home country, especially with the upcoming Olympic Games drawing scrutiny on the country’s involvement with Darfur and an occupation of Tibet. Last week, at the University of Southern California, they threw water bottles at a visiting Tibetan monk and accused him of lying. Here’s what one Chinese student had to say about the world’s view of China:

?I believe in democracy,? Ms. Jia added, ?but I can?t stand for someone to criticize my country using biased ways. You are wearing Chinese clothes and you are using Chinese goods.?

Now, Every Gunshot Shuts Down A University: When shots were fired at an on campus house party at Florida Atlantic University, police shut down the campus and began a massive search for the shooter, who has not been found as of yet.

NIU Scraps Plans To Raze Shooting Site: The plan now is to renovate Cole Hall rather than raze it, wasting a whole ton of state money destroying a perfectly good building in the process. The building was the site of the Valentine’s Day shooting spree where a former student killed five students in a lecture class.

One More Reason To Dislike Philosophy Majors: An NYU student brought a muffin filled with razor blades into his philosophy class as part of a class discussion of absurdism, a theory that holds that the universe is irrational and meaningless. Then someone took a bite out of it.? Luckily, he wasn’t hurt, but let this be a lesson, philosophy majors: leaving the cooking to someone else.