Just announced: Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania has announced a new program in "Irony Studies."
From CNN:
BLOOMSBURG, Pennsylvania (AP) -- Bloomsburg University's student government president was charged with drunken driving just weeks after saying the media has unfairly portrayed students as irresponsible.
Christopher Bevan, 21, was pulled over last weekend after a campus police officer said he saw the student driving more than 50 mph in a 15-mph zone.
A breath test showed Bevan's blood-alcohol level was .147 percent, authorities said. The legal limit for drivers in Pennsylvania is .08 percent.
Bevan recently wrote a letter to the Press Enterprise of Bloomsburg about media coverage of the central Pennsylvania college's annual Block Party, an event critics have described as rowdy and alcohol-fueled.
The stories have "painted BU students with a broad and negative brush and are both inaccurate and extremely unfair to the thousands of responsible, mature Bloomsburg students who are an asset to the school and this community," Bevan wrote.
Reached Friday, Bevan declined to say if he would step down from his position. He also would not comment on the arrest.
College spokeswoman Liza Benedict called the arrest out of character for Bevan.
"Up to this point, Chris has set a great example for the students and worked well with the university," she said.
Bevan was charged with driving under the influence, driving at an unsafe speed and careless driving.
(I applied to teach there for this year. They rejected me because a letter of rec was a day late. Didn't want to teach there anyway.)
Monday, September 17, 2007
New College Program
1 comment:
The best part about this is that it wasn't even close, like getting pulled over for a little swervin' and registering a .95 or whatnot. No, this guy is piss hammered and hauling ass.
I do wonder if "careless driving" is Pennsylvania's version of "reckless driving" or if Penn has two categories of bad driving. If so, what exactly would you have to do be charged with reckless driving? If he had been Ghost Ridin the Whip at 50 mph in a 15 mph zone while that drunk, would that be reckless driving?
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