<p>First a visiting student from Cornell drinks himself to death, then 3 football players are booted under suspicious circumstances; now two more athletes facing trial for fighting.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dailyprogress.com/ser...9134&path=%5B/url%5D">www.dailyprogress.com/ser...9134&path=</a></p>
<p>the link doesn't work.</p>
<p>Try this</p>
<p>Intro:
Two University of Virginia athletes are facing felony charges stemming from a March 3 break-in and brawl at a Rugby Road fraternity house.</p>
<p>Charlottesville police on Monday night arrested Michael Giallombardo, 18, a freshman goalkeeper with the UVa soccer team, and Michael Brown, 18, a freshman defensive back on the football team. They are both charged with breaking and entering with intent to commit an assault and breaking and entering with the intent to damage property.</p>
<p>"Virginia football coach Al Groh announced on Tuesday that linebacker Ahmad Brooks, safety Tony Franklin and defensive end Vince Redd are no longer part of his program.</p>
<p>"It is a privelege and not a right to wear a Cavaliers jersey and to represent our university and community," Groh said. "There are certain things that are vital and those things come into sharper focus and are multiplied when you're rebuilding, as we are. That's focus, commitment and dependability."</p>
<p>Groh did not disclose the specific reason for dismissing the three players, but stressed, "each circumstance is different."</p>
<p>Groh..... Groh.... is he the former Jets coach? Is this a conspiracy to deflect attention away from Duke?</p>
<p>Yup- it's the same Groh who was the Jets coach.</p>
<p>Oh, fun at my alma mater, too, besides the feces spreading, and defecating out of windows:</p>
<p>This is my first time doing this, so I hope this works. I am writing to inform those students who are not already aware of a decision that was made by Dean Sneed and one other dean this morning in regards to a fight last weekend.</p>
<p>First, the fight: So on Saturday night, the 4th of March, a student named John Pritchard walked through a gladden common room and encountered another student, Jake Randall, that happens to be his girl-friend's ex. Randall, in an effort to put their differences aside, stuck out his and in a respectful manner. Pritchard denied the gesture, to which Randall took offense. Words were exchanged and in a matter of seconds, Pritchard, a mongrol, pinned Randall up against the wall. Randall's friend, who was visiting for the weekend, put his hand on Pritchard's shoulder and asked him calmly to "settle down". Without warning, Pritchard turned to Randall's friend and started bashing his face into the concrete floor. Randall then tackled Pritchard to get him off his friend, and Pritchard ended up on top of Randall with a death strangle on him. After about 20 seconds, Randall recalled his life literally slipping away under Pritchard's white-knuckled grip. Luckily, two students were able to strip Pritchard off of Randall before he was killed. (If you think this is exaggerated, you should see the pictures of Randall's friend and the bruises on Randall's throat - both look like they cheated death)</p>
<p>Now here's where it gets complicated. Randall, in a frenzy (as any one of us would be after nearly excaping the clutches of death himself), called his ex-girlfriend (Pritchard's current girlfriend), and called her all sorts of names and told her how disgusted he was for ever being involved with a psycho like Pritchard.</p>
<p>Pritchard and Randall go to the Deans, and receive the SAME PUNISHMENT. Both have to take a year off of school. Am I crazy, or is this not the most embarrassing thing that has ever happened at Williams?</p>
<p>Not only did the Deans not consider Randall's reasons for being upset valid, but they didn't even ask if he, or his friend were OK. They didn't even care.</p>
<p>Oh Barrons, you just love bashing UVa.</p>
<p>Well, I know that last year your alma mater Wisconsin had its own dark cloud that continues to cover the ginormous university.</p>
<p>Quoting the article, I think "Wisconsin: university=diversity=perversity=adversity" says it all.</p>
<p>Not much there. I know your UVa head of the Honors program had to slink away from campus for getting too "close" to some coeds. But I never bothered with that story.</p>
<p>Yes UW is more liberal than UVa. Is that a problem?</p>
<p>Oh is that supposed to make me feel like your UVa bashing is more deleterious than vicious?</p>
<p>From reading the Chronicles of Higher Education, Ive been aware of Wisconsins problems since last year, but unlike you, I dont go about putting up posts/messages to bash your alma mater, which youve done many-a-times.</p>
<p>One shouldnt throw stones when one lives in a glass house.</p>
<p>By the way, Im a liberal, and I dont see how having Wisconsin taxpayers pay the schools vice-chancellor $190K when he doesnt show up for work for 9 months, and having 3 UW faculty members convicted of felonies between March and August of 2005, one for sexually assaulting three young girls, another for e-mailing sexually explicit material to a teenage boy, and a third for stalking are tenets of liberalism.</p>
<p>..here is part of the story:</p>
<p>hope those links are better.</p>
<p>You know, sometimes college students do stupid things. One just needs to follow a bunch of college co-eds during Spring break to know this is true. Just as I wouldn't judge the entire Duke student body based on the alleged rape of a woman by a Duke athlete, I wouldn't judge all UVa students based on these incidents. </p>
<p>Those UVa athletes were stupid by breaking into Delta Upsilon and fighting w/ the fraternity brothers, and they were kicked out of the football team as rightly so they should be. UVa students are expected to act honorably. End of story.</p>
<p>The underage Cornell student came to UVa and walked around Grounds w/ his own flask of alcohol and drank so much that he died in his sleep from alcohol poisoning. The chief medical examiner said his death was accidental.</p>
<p>hmm.. interesting articles. but don't things like that always happen on campus?</p>
<p>No. UVa usually doesn't have problems with its athletes. I agree w/ Coach Groh when he said, "It is a privelege and not a right to wear a Cavaliers jersey and to represent our university and community."</p>
<p>Re. underage drinking, I would be lying if I said that doesn't happen at UVa...just as its happens in most colleges across the country, but the Cornell student should have known better than to carry a flask around Grounds and over-drink. Nonetheless, my heart goes out to his family. I hear he was a really great student.</p>