The seemingly insatiable desire of American prosecutors to criminalize as many ordinary and law-abiding citizens as possible has now reached the Dean’s office:
A pair of schools officials, including the dean of students, and three students from Rider University have the campus community stunned after being charged with ìaggravated hazingî in the death of a freshman student that died following a night of binge drinking at a fraternity house late last March, authorities said Friday. [. . .]
“The ramifications of this for colleges and universities in New Jersey, and across the country, is that it will send some kind of message that the standards of college life, when it relates to alcohol, need to be policed carefully,” Mercer County Prosecutor Joseph Bocchini Jr. told the Associated Press.
Bocchini didn’t mention that he could have also obtained the indictment of a ham sandwich if he had asked the grand jury for one. I’m looking forward to hearing about the “evidence” that the Dean had anything to do whatsoever with the alleged hazing incident that led to this young man’s unfortunate death. If, as I suspect, there isn’t any, then what exactly is the message that Bocchini is sending?
Gee, I thought the fields for the Shell Houston Open Golf Tournament had slipped badly over the past several years. But those depleted fields are nothing compared to the experience of this week’s Greater Greensboro Open (now called the “Wyndham” or some such thing). The PGA Tour’s final tournament before the season-ending series of “playoff” tournaments known as the Fed Ex Cup is having a bit of a problem getting any leading Tour player to show up:
The Wyndham is the final regular-season tournament of the PGA Tourís FedEx Cup, and only the top 144 players in the points race advance to the playoffs, which will start next week.
There is no shortage of players hovering around the 144th spot on the points list, but those already secure for the playoffs are taking the week off. Only two of the top 50 in the updated world rankings are in the field – Davis Love III, the defending champion and ranked 43rd, and Carl Pettersson, ranked 48th. Pettersson, a former player at N.C. State, lives near Raleigh and played his high-school golf at Greensboro Grimlsey.
And after publication of the foregoing, Love withdrew from the tournament to undergo a medical procedure for kidney stones. The Tiger Chasm widens.