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Once Wheeler gained acceptance to Bowdoin College and graduated from Caesar Rodney in 2005, the school “kind of lost track of him,” Fitzgerald said. But in late April of this year, the former student’s name snuck back onto the radar: the high school received an inquiry from an admissions officer at Yale, who asked Caesar Rodney to verify data on Wheeler’s transfer application...
Tasers can be a useful tool for police, and we hope that they remain available to law-enforcement officials. But in most cases, police should stick to the old-fashioned tackle when subduing fans who jump onto the field. The YouTube crowd will probably find it just as entertaining...
...Running onto the field of a major sporting event is a crime, and armed fans in the vicinity of players certainly pose a safety threat. However, in both recent cases, no players were in danger. The Phillies fan did not appear to be armed and simply ran circles in the outfield. In the golf incident, the man resisting arrest was clearly intoxicated while heckling players. Police should expect drunken people to act belligerently and yell at sports games and should not respond with excessive force, even at more restrained events like golf tournaments. In both cases, the fans could have...
Some have argued that the use of the Taser was justified in the Phillies case because it will deter other fans from engaging in similar behavior. However, just one day after the baseball incident, another Phillies fan ran onto the field, suggesting that the Tasing may have had the opposite effect. In fact, the popularity of the footage from the Phillies incident on YouTube—where the user comments largely poke fun at the incident—is somewhat troubling, since it suggests that the public does not take Tasers as seriously as it should...
...website aims to solve this problem by allowing seniors (and other students selling items) to upload sale albums from Facebook onto the website...