Been thinking a lot about the Scottie Young situation. I don't pretend to know the answer to the DV problem in America. Like so many of the posters I have been around a long time and a lot has changed. I want to share a story and my only point is how much things have changed, but I'm not sure the behavior has changed as much as society has changed. The story: http://cjonline.com/stories/122707/haw_229342644.shtml#.WdLmGLpFwe4
In 1968 I was a freshman at Kansas University. It was probably the only year in the last 50 that KU had a dominant football team. bbunny you probably remember well if you are from Nebraska and are as old as I think you are. In the story it mentions what a character John Riggins was. Trust me they all were. It was an exceptional team of Kansas home grown, farm boys who played as rough as they worked. In Lawrence at that time there were three main bars, the Stables, the Wheel and the Jayhawk Café and most of the football team didn't miss a Friday night at all three. For sure in the off season. I can't say that I ever saw them do anything more than in a fit of rage dump an entire pitcher of beer on a coed's head after she threw a beer into the face of her football boyfriend, but I can say that there was no front page headlines, no Dean's suspension or probation, no campus police arrests and no front page headlines in the Lawrence Journal or the school newspaper the next day. But there would be now. Again I am not saying right or wrong, just Then and Now.
In 1968 I was a freshman at Kansas University. It was probably the only year in the last 50 that KU had a dominant football team. bbunny you probably remember well if you are from Nebraska and are as old as I think you are. In the story it mentions what a character John Riggins was. Trust me they all were. It was an exceptional team of Kansas home grown, farm boys who played as rough as they worked. In Lawrence at that time there were three main bars, the Stables, the Wheel and the Jayhawk Café and most of the football team didn't miss a Friday night at all three. For sure in the off season. I can't say that I ever saw them do anything more than in a fit of rage dump an entire pitcher of beer on a coed's head after she threw a beer into the face of her football boyfriend, but I can say that there was no front page headlines, no Dean's suspension or probation, no campus police arrests and no front page headlines in the Lawrence Journal or the school newspaper the next day. But there would be now. Again I am not saying right or wrong, just Then and Now.
