Have you bothered to read the 5 other threads full of THOUSANDS of comments about the murder, who, what, when, why and how, or are you just crashing the party late and assuming things?
We have discussed this murder more THAN ANYONE ANYWHERE and thats a fact, we are now all friends and to keep eachothers company WHILE WE WAIT FOR MORE INFO and not lose contact with eachother we are simply hanging around trying to keep the thread alive and having a GENERAL DISCUSSION about things that interest us.
If you want our feelings about the case and I can assure there is more credible research about this case on the 5 previous threads than anywhere else PERIOD, then go read them and stop assuming things because you skipped POINT A and went straight to POINT B.
Paximus, I like many of your opinions more than others in this forum. They seem well thought out. However, you seem to have misunderstood my statements. They are not supose to be jokes to everyone. But it is terribly hard to take CHI walks seriously if you have ever seen one. You all make CHI out to be this serious secret society, when it is common knowledge amoungst any active students on how you can wiggle your way into CHI. I served on the judicial board of my university with several CHI members. It doesnt mean anything, except, perhaps pride?
Second, i see your stance on symbolism. However, my "ignorant generation" seems to understand it better than you may realize. You seem to talk about the word "symbolism" from a theoretical or historical viewpoint. However, this is often irrelivant. The meaning of a symbol is the understanding of it by the culture it is used in. In other words, while hostorically the meanings may be something else that in modern usage they are not. The example used earlier of the swastika is an excelent one. Hostorically, it has been many things. However, in our culture, the culture of the West, it stands for Nazis. Why? Because thats how it is commonly understood.
Next i would like to address your hints of racism. In your statement you refered to me and my fellow peers as a "bunch southern white college kids." This really gets to me, and in response, though i typically agree with you and support you, this statement makes me think of you as an ignorant elitest. First, most of my friends here (and ALL of my roomates) are from nothern virginia and the DC area. This is not considered "the south." Second, there is a very large population of people here form New York, this also is not part of "the south." Third, though we are a very small University, we are division one. This means we recruit alot of out of state people. We have a VERY large diversity of students here. Fourth, given the size of the college, Longwood has a massive exchange program with a chinese university. Calling us a bunch of "southern white kids" is about as wrong as me calling you an ignorant yankee. But hey, i guess we all make our mistakes, i wont hold this one against you.
Finally, if you wish to discuss things you are interested in, go for it. I would love to be involved with these discussion. But much of what you are saying hints at a conclusion that my school could be part of the problem. This is insane. I will, with every resource available to me, defend the integrity of my University. I do not with for you all to stop this forum, but i think it is fair for me to say: stop making assumptions about things that you seem to know VERY little about. Fine, bring up the story of CHI, but do not try to turn it into a game of pointing fingers when not a single one of you even knows what the CURRENT CHI is, nor what it stands for.
Lets remember, there are people in this forum whom this affected directly, including myself. When you manufacture some of these bogus assumptions you offend people, expecially when you refear to us as a "ignorant generation," or "a bunch of southern white kids."
One more quick thing: a friend of mine who is CHI is black. Im not sure he would like it if you called him a "southern white kid parading around with a bag over his head." You are obviously an intelegent person, PLEASE try not to act like this.
Forgive me if there are grammical mistakes, im in a hurry!
