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-The West Georgian —Thursday, May 15,1997
Page 12
Thousands of Colorado
University students riot
BOULDER, Colo.—An end
of-the-semester party turned violent
May 2 when mobs of University of
Colorado students set bonfires in
the street and threw rocks, bricks
and bottles at police.
Participants said the riot was
the result of simmering tensions
between CU students and police over
a crackdown on underage drinking.
More than 100 police officers
dressed in full riot gear fired tear gas
to disperse the crowd, which at one
point swelled to 1,500 people.
Rioters overturned Dumpsters,
burned couches and lumber,
smashed windows and broke parking
meters.
The next night, after the
university bars closed, rioting began
again with a smaller crowd. When
the weekend was over, 20 students
were arrested and as many as 18
officers reported injured.
In a statement, the University
of Colorado Student Union said, “In
an attempt to curb underage drinking
throughout the Boulder community,
students have been treated as a
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nuisance rather than valued
members of the community.”
Police called the five-hour
standoff on the first night the worst
riot in Boulder in 25 years, and CU
Chancellor Richard L. Byyny said
he was “disturbed and disappointed”
by students’ behavior.
“The vast majority of CU-
Boulder’s 25,000-plus students
know how to have fun in safe and
healthy ways,” he said. “This is not
one of those ways.”
Students found to have been
involved in the riots would face
disciplinary actions from the
university, he said.
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CHICAGO—Over the years,
the heavenly smell of roasting cof
fee has drawn thousands to the Uni
versity of Chicago Divinity School’s
Coffee Shop, whose slogan is
“Where God Drinks Coffee.”
All the sales of java have re
sulted in more than a major caffeine
buzz for the campus: $45,000 in
profits from the coffee shop are be
ing used to establish a scholarship
fund for divinity students.
The gift was made to the divin
ity school by the Divinity Students
Association, which owns and oper
ates the campus coffee shop.
“This is terrific. It is the first
time our students have made a col
lective decision to do something
like this,” said Clark Gilpin, dean of
from around the nation
the divinity school. “I’m particu
larly impressed because the students
looked for a way to make a lasting
intellectual and educational impres
sion instead of funding a park
bench.”
The money, which represents
several years of profits from the
shop, will be invested and the inter
est will be used to fund at least two
annual scholarships for Ph.D. can
didates or master of divinity stu
dents. The DS A hopes to add funds
to the scholarship in the future.
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