Arkansas Blog

I can't stress enough how disappointed I am in KUAR's coverage. I can understand your audio link to Ron Breeding not working, but instead of stating what was known about the situation, Ben Fry simply cut back to NPR. Umm, sorry guys, but if I hadn't already been in touch with my people there, that shit would have made me WORRY. You don't say "campus shooting" without supplying details...

Saw this too late, should not depend on MSNBC for local news.

Like OK Corral around here this week. I may hunker down for a few months until all the schools let out.

Just thinking that when when I was a teenager we used to play stickball in our free time. And it wasn't That Long ago. Really.

Maybe we need to bring back stickball and the like. these kids today do seem a might uptight. I'm no sociologist/criminologist by any stretch, but occurs t me that maybe a regular game of stick ball could be the answer.

In the meantime, keep your head down.

Looks like some of the Hall/Fair High kids from yesterday may be college-bound...

Gracious!

As a UALR faculty member I received emergency alerts on all three of my phones: cell, home, and office. Additionally, the e-mail alert arrived a bit belatedly.
However, some faculty and staff are already complaining about not getting the alert or even wondering what it is! This is after a concentrated effort of the folks in public safety and communications to get everyone to understand and sign up for the program in December (before it went live).
As for KUAR not knowing what exactly was transpiring--I doubt anyone at the university was talking. We have received an "all clear" message, however, and I'm heading in to teach my night class.

There was a shooting with extremely minor injuries at ASU last Saturday morning. No coverage in the local media. I found out about it from one of the Memphis TV channel websites.

Update/correction:

The description of the suspect vehicle has been changed. Now they say it was a 2000-2005 model cream colored "Japanese" car, perhaps a Nissan, with body damage on one side.

I had just left campus and heard the...um...story on the radio. ms. mann came home in tears, happy that I was okay. (It's the homemade bread she'd miss the most.)

Listening to the Rest Home Yakkers on the radio yap about our current tsunami of schoolyard shenanigans.

One caller suggested caning.

Another wants 10 commandments in classroom.

10 commandments seem a bit severe with all the stoned untill death penalties for disobedient sons and daughters but a good public ass-whoopin' might be a GREAT idea!

What's wrong with 30 lashes on the ass at a school assembly?

Good work, Chancellor.

What's wrong with 30 lashes on the ass at a school assembly?<<

What's wrong with 30 years in Hotel Cummins?

For shooting someone?

Great!

Picking fights?

whoop that ass

Somehow you people will make this George Bush's fault by the time this thread expires.

Seriously, this is a shame. What ever happened to the days when you just kicked someone's ass when you had a disagreement with them? Now-a-days....they just shoot 'em.

Rev. Moon up there asks, "What's wrong with 30 lashes on the ass at a school assembly?"

Shorter version: "Torture is cool!"

Don't be a dickhead.

Corporal punishment is not torture and you know it.

Proverbs 13-24 (King James Version):

" He that spareth his rod hateth his son."

$50 a day fine to parents for unexcused absences?

Folks, schools are mirrors of society. They reflect society. Whatever is going on in society finds its way into schools and onto school campuses. If you want better schools then have better societies. Now, don't ask me how to do that 'cause I'm just an ignorant hillbilly over here in western Arkansas and I hain't planning on leaving for any reason.

Next on Rev. Mojo Ryson's list: "The Tucker Telephone: Fraternity Prank or Harmless Amusement?"

Why don't you take that Tucker Telephone, clip it to your berries and call someone who knows the difference between torture and corporal punishment.

I know the difference quite well, Rev. Moon:

I practice corporal punishment for the good of society.
He is a harsh disciplinarian who sometimes exceeds the bounds of propriety.
You are a sick puppy who gets off on hurting people.

Pick your own values of "I", "he", and "you".

N.B. I do not commit corporal punishment on my daughter.

Has anyone accounted for the whereabouts of a certain UALR student/political gadfly?

When they are inundated with bumper stickers saying "They can have my gun when the pry it from my cold dead hand!"; the leadership of the country invades a country because the President wants to; then states that torture is O.K. if its ordered by Republicans; lies so much and so often no one, including the leaderships fellow Republicans, listen to him anymore and campaigning Republicans refuse to be seen with or endorsed by the leadership, but accept the funds raised, why are you surprised?

What restraint have they seen examples of in the past years, just a seemingly endless supply of lying crooks, running the economy into the ground to benefit their political (corporate contributers) cronies and self-image. If the President of the United States does it and gets away with it, why not them??????

327 days till the end of and error, but the hangover with last for decades!

Sorry, catfish eater. Thay was for you.

1) Students didn't get an (email) alert until about 45 minutes after the shooting. No text/cell phone system?

2) Faculty have complained that the alert was sent out in an unreadable font and that they heard about the shooting from students.

$300 Kazillion dollars in homeland security dollars were appropriate last session and UALR can't send out a text alert?

Shoud I send my kids to school in Lebanon where they have campus security????

Corporal punishment was apparently effective in schools for hundreds if not thousands of years.

Only in the past few decades has it been banned.

Now junior can't read because of the chaotic atmosphere and the teacher spends more time as a referee than teach.

Go figure.

My Sister-in-law nearly had a nervous breakdown trying to teach public school third graders. Got tired of breaking up fights and being called a bitch everyday.

Took the pay cut and now teaches private where there is discipline, caring parents and NO problems.

Amazing.

Prouster, I am safe now. I was attacked in that parking lot last week. A sorority girl I know was mugged there last night. But I am safe and okay. Prouster thanks for asking about me.

Drew

Dang, I tend to miss out on all the interesting stuff. We're almost to Las Vegas, overnighting it in Holbrook, AZ. Click on bluename for an interesting sight in Oklahoma on I-40.

SICK of all these shootings and MURDERS in my area or westwwod community can't we get more drive by officers to patrol in this area we have so much black on black crime here in the western hills community it needs to stop NOW . fucking cops n3eed to protect us not repport we are dead from a gun shoot wound im thinking of selling and getting out of this hell hole and all this crime in Little ROCK !!!!!!!!!!!!! do something about the crime here Thanks thats my rant for now !.

Ricl l Ramsey home owner in western hills

So, Rev. Mojo Ryson, your sister ran away from the problem and you are making intellectually dishonest excuses for her.

That's too hard on your sister--even if I think the story about being called a bitch every day is untrue--but not too hard on you.

I probably wouldn't take your pigdick ignorance so badly if you didn't quote John Lennon and name yourself after Jim Morrison. (For those who don't know, Mr. Mojo Risin' is an anagram for Jim Morrison. I tried using the anagram generator on Rev. Mojo Ryson, but the only meaningful output I got was REV MOON and MORON.) As it is, you're lucky the dead stay dead, 'cause if they didn't, you might be living through a one-on-one rendition of Peace Frog, up close and personal.

Gunman kills four in Tennessee, Airman kills his two kids then commits suicide in Oklahoma...NIU, VA Tech, Columbine, Jonesboro...being a non-violent person who gave up guns a long long time ago, am seriously thinking about obtaining a Glock and permit to carry...wonder how many Americans were killed by gunshot since the Iraq war started? Ooops almost forgot to write the holy mantra, "guns don't kill people, people kill people" or some such rot.

Sort uv answered my own question, googled and found that over 16,000 were killed by guns in 2004. One web site states that on average 5 kids are killed nationwide per day. Gun violence has become as common as jay walking.

I probably should have added the words "at the time of the shooting" to my last post, to make its meaning clearer.

Campus rep quoted on the radio as saying the alert was sent out to the students 20 minutes after the incident occurred. . .

By golly, we certainly got that gate good and slanmmed shut after the horses weren't just out of the barn but were probably in the next county. . .

Great job guys!

The campus was not "locked down"--people were meandering around outside and the doors to the buildings left unlocked, unguarded One faculty member told me he felt like a sitting duck, them having told them to 'sit tight' with no security. What sense does that make?

I believe the reintroduction of corporal punishment in public schools would be a useful tool in establishing classroom order.

John A Arkansawyer apparently does not, and has a maniacal opinion of anyone who does.

Random Shooting Survivor Testifies at Gun Control Hearing

/3:58 film clip at name

I used to be a "let's melt all the hand guns" guy.

Slowly turning into a "don't leave home without it" guy.

Rev. Mojo Ryson believes that corporal punishment, which is illegal in the prison system, should be applied to children.

I believe that beating children is abusive behavior and should be illegal: Hit a kid, go to jail.

This dude says it's okay.

/click name

Rev. Mojo Ryson, after your reference earlier to "instant karma", I only have one thing left to say:

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope some day you'll join us
And if you do, leave home the gun