You may not want to read this if you are a fan of WVU... fair warning

There was much debate over writing or not writing my thoughts about today’s topic. However, I finally landed on not voicing disgust and outrage is really what has led to the recent events in Morgantown so I decided popular or not I would go ahead and dive into the topic. As I begin I will say I am not alumni to WVU, but I am a West Virginia native, I realize that this was not the entire student body and not all students. WVU is not the first school to do this type of stupid thing but it also is not the first time that WVU / Morgantown has done this same kind of stupid thing. In case you live under a rock or just don’t care about anything West Virginia, following the win in Saturday’s football game, the grand ol’ tradition of “sofa burnin’” commenced. Most people including myself are not sure how this sacrifice to the gods of upholstery even became a thing there but it has and it had gone on for damn near 40 years. So while it was mainly young people out in the streets this past Saturday, the college presidents past and present, and every leader in Morgantown elected or appointed from the mayor to the chief of police for the past 40 years hold a certain amount of accountability for the antics and out of control behavior that isn’t just Saturdays around football season, it is all the time. Morgantown isn’t any worse than any other town in West Virginia, which unfortunately in the last decade isn’t saying much. I hate to see that West Virginia is becoming abused by businesses coming in and taking advantage of a crumbling economy, that many of the best and brightest of West Virginia have to leave the state to find a sustainable wages because there just are not enough good jobs to go around. Drugs, gambling, alcohol, and other crimes and vices are becoming more and more common place in the state but especially in the towns with a college. You may be saying what the hell does any of this have to do with anything that went on in Morgantown on Saturday. Well it lends to the general tone of how people think of things, if you let your town become a crappy little village where slum lords gouge students to the tune of 400 to 500 dollars a month for a bedroom in a shitty little house that has 5 to 6 bedrooms, that was built in the 1930’s which probably has lead paint, no drive way, wiring that would not pass code anywhere else, has carpeting from the 1970’s or 80’s and most likely is not on a bus route because the buses can’t make it up the streets because they are too narrow. A university that crams as many students into a classroom as possible without regard if they graduate or not but only concern themselves with making sure tuition is paid in full, then for the most part ignores the deviance and criminality of the student body. Such as, batteries and bottles thrown at visiting teams, drunken block parties, and the list goes on and on and it has for 40 years. WVU is a bad joke to most of the rest of the country, sadder still the joke extends to the rest of the state. I know that every student who goes to the school isn’t a trouble maker, isn’t a drunk, that there are actual classes taught there and people do graduate with knowledge. I know people who live there and they are good people. However, the students and citizens who participated in the events on Saturday should be ashamed and embarrassed that they have just added more ammunition to the loaded gun and more people not taking the school and the state seriously. Long before this Saturday’s antics I advise against any student wasting their money and time at this college not because of the school but because the leaders of the college and the town don’t care, they all the bad to go on, slum lords, crime, burning things in the street and looked the other way. They have allowed this behavior to become tradition. I lost count of how many times I read the phrase, “It is a tradition” as this somehow defends the criminal acts, a lot of things were traditions until people stopped doing them because they were stupid. The truly sad thing about this is, that nothing is going to change until one of these stupid couch burnings, gets out of control and burns down several blocks in the town and a few people die. It is only a matter of time; beat up old houses which need to be condemned, drunks, and burning sofas is just asking for problems. As someone who is from West Virginia, I’m mad as hell that one stupid town paints the whole state to look like a drunken bunch of hillbillies with no manners and no sense. Students of WVU and the leaders of Morgantown, it is time to grow up and act like you have a major college in your town, take some pride in the state and not just the fucking football team, and stop acting like the cast of a Jackass movie. Well, that’s all for now, other stuff to follow most likely Happy Birthday if it’s your birthday and a very merry un birthday if it isn’t your birthday Thank you for reading, please subscribe, Have a great day and play nice in the neighborhood. Ciao, Invisible Don http://invisibledon.diaryland.com/images/burningname.gif PS 3 / PS4 Gamer Tag: invisible don Invisible Don PO Box 4425 Roanoke VA 24015 Send me Post Cards … I love Post Cards