i've seen some large groups in the two hundreds during my days here, but i've never seen the place as packed as it was tonight. absolutely insane. bottles were flying (i'm not just talking beer bottles, i'm talking handles), everyone there was shitfaced, so naturally, a fight breaks out. which turns into cries of racism.

like anywhere else, the race issue is a huge hotspot on campus. i mean, think about it--a small, catholic college in vermont? you do the math. and i don't usually talk about it at all because anything i say could be interpreted in a thousand different ways. anything that is said by anyone can be taken ridiculously out of context one way or the other.

but i will say this: the fight was over a girl. yet it wound up being a whole issue about oppression, nurturing, international student policy...and i'm sorry, but having someone yelling at a security officer for upwards of an hour and then hearing the security officer say that if any repercussions seem to be approaching, to call the officer so he can come in and defend the person who has just been screaming about how said officer can never understand and how the college fuels the apparently predominant attitude...it just never ceases to amaze me.

and, as i wrote that, security had left and yet more fighting broke out. this is insane.