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[IUPalum]

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Amir Hinton to IUP???

[IUPbigINDIANS]

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Things are pretty quiet on the IUP front. I'd assume the first recruiting news of any sort will start to leak around the mid-April signing date.

Jesse Huff appears to be the lone departure. Jeremiah Nkumsah's ACL recovery is on schedule. There are a few (incoming) transfer names I've heard but nothing concrete -- two guards in particular. There may be some news on one of them here very shortly. One is from D2 (and, no, not David Dennis) and the other is from a (high-level) mid-major. Both in the 6'4" to 6'5" range ... shooting guards.

Whomever the bigs are in this class will determine the outcome of next season. No chance they are getting past Ship/Sleva without a legit post player(s) import.

Side note on that front: Sleva's younger brother, no surprise, signed with Ship this week.

Other items:

* Mercyhurst has been all over the Maryland JUCO scene the past two weeks
* Clarion has a few in line from CCBC
* Rumors former Gannon PG Jimmy Berger will either be walking on at Akron or going D3
* Sounds like Trevor Blondin will return for Seton Hill next season

[Chuck Norris]

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A few years ago when Cal was going through the downtown sidewalk beating incident, I distinctly remember the iup president telling the media that iup didn't have any problems like that. That condescending attitude has flown back in his face in spades several times since his gloat.

But nobody involved in the shootings was currently a student so it's all good. Indiana residents just have to hunker down one weekend every March and try not to get shot while their property is vandalized and their yards are used as public toilets. That's not too much to ask in the name of "tradition", right?

[Feedoggie]

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A few years ago when Cal was going through the downtown sidewalk beating incident, I distinctly remember the iup president telling the media that iup didn't have any problems like that. That condescending attitude has flown back in his face in spades several times since his gloat.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

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Carlos is taking the dirt nap. The shooter may see daylight again in 30-40 years (and should be put to death). Hopefully the girl hit inadvertently recovers. It really puts in perspective how stupid the actions taken were.

[ironmaniup]

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The young man who was shot and killed, Carlos, was an IUP student. The 'alleged' (and arrested) shooter was not. He was a local with quite the rap sheet. Carlos was shot twice in the chest after there was supposedly a fist fight. The girl who was hit in this incident was hit during the fracas.

The other shooting took place near 12th and Philly. It seems to be more of a random run-in between two groups and the nutcase pulled out a gun, fired two warning shots in the air and then 3 shots at the victims.

The Cooper Beach incident (third) ... nobody was hit. That could have just been a drunk moron firing shots off at 230am.

The police force did a tremendous job getting both shooters in custody quickly. They are completely overwhelmed during this event.

We can only hope to not wake up and read about more violence tomorrow morning. Hopefully most of campus is passed out now after they went pretty hard today from 9am well through dinner.

IUP will say this isn't their event. The shootings were 'off campus' (although the 1200 block area of Oakland Ave is within a weak pitching wedge) ... if anything President Driscoll should pay for cleaning up the neighborhoods all of his animals destroyed the past two days.

What's further amazing is the house where an IUP student was shot and killed last night ... was surrounded by thousands of party-goers by 11am today in the houses and yards right beside it. All under the watch of Pittsburgh news crews. It was completely dispicable.
to draw partiers.
But, like I said earlier today, the show goes on .... the inmates run the asylum at IUP -- and IUP runs Indiana.

It seems the bars down town were pretty happy, with many having special events to draw partiers. the first thing they did to kill state pattys day in State College was close these down. The town hated small loud parties, and so changed zoning to concentrate students in big apartment complexes which led to the copper beech problems and these big parties. Before the zoning crackdowns there were lots of parties with 20-30 people which were annoying but not really dangerous. Unintended consequences

BTW Carlos was a local kid, not currently a student, and had also had some run ins with the law. Harsh penalties for those who have fights or other run ins with police during the event. But there is limited things that can be done.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

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Based on this PennLive article it doesn't seem like anyone involved was an IUP student



Looks like one shooting was due to some sort of argument and the other was revenge for an alleged robbery.

The young man who was shot and killed, Carlos, was an IUP student. The 'alleged' (and arrested) shooter was not. He was a local with quite the rap sheet. Carlos was shot twice in the chest after there was supposedly a fist fight. The girl who was hit in this incident was hit during the fracas.

The other shooting took place near 12th and Philly. It seems to be more of a random run-in between two groups and the nutcase pulled out a gun, fired two warning shots in the air and then 3 shots at the victims.

The Cooper Beach incident (third) ... nobody was hit. That could have just been a drunk moron firing shots off at 230am.

The police force did a tremendous job getting both shooters in custody quickly. They are completely overwhelmed during this event.

We can only hope to not wake up and read about more violence tomorrow morning. Hopefully most of campus is passed out now after they went pretty hard today from 9am well through dinner.

IUP will say this isn't their event. The shootings were 'off campus' (although the 1200 block area of Oakland Ave is within a weak pitching wedge) ... if anything President Driscoll should pay for cleaning up the neighborhoods all of his animals destroyed the past two days.

What's further amazing is the house where an IUP student was shot and killed last night ... was surrounded by thousands of party-goers by 11am today in the houses and yards right beside it. All under the watch of Pittsburgh news crews. It was completely dispicable.

But, like I said earlier today, the show goes on .... the inmates run the asylum at IUP -- and IUP runs Indiana.

[Bart]

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There is little the area can do to control off campus private parties when they are all on the same day, and with social media, everyone gets invited. It's a problem at most schools. The costs to bring in extra police is often funded by the state, but it is very expensive for the local communities.

[Ian Carlson]

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This situation reminds of Iowa State's VEISHEA....was the largest student run festival in the country at one time. Was basically a week long drunk fest that every college-aged person in Iowa showed up to, whether they were a student or not. The year I was a student, a non-student stabbed a student at a frat party. The next year, they announced VEISHEA would be a dry event....no alcohol allowed on campus during the week at all. That policy was enforced about as well as the speed limit. Eventually more stuff happened and three years ago was the last one (after more than 80 years of the festival).

[TheBigCat2192]

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Based on this PennLive article it doesn't seem like anyone involved was an IUP student

The shootings took place near IUP but not on campus, and none of the parties involved was a student there, said Michelle Fryling, a university spokeswoman.

Looks like one shooting was due to some sort of argument and the other was revenge for an alleged robbery.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

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If this event was in the wealthy sections of town it would have ended years ago.

[Chuck Norris]

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To be fair, the shootings were by not by students, but locals. the one sounds drug related. The IUP students involved were bystanders according to police. Basically a carriage house incident happened during IUPattys.

But I agree they need to calm down the IUPattys event.

They need to shut down the IUPattys event.

[ironmaniup]

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IUP students started this "tradition" in and around IUP's campus. IUP officials year after year fail miserably to curtail this garbage and it gets more and more out of control. Spare me the garbage about outside visitors or townies. This is IUP's problem and IUP's fault. And now they have blood on their hands.

To be fair, the shootings were by not by students, but locals. the one sounds drug related. The IUP students involved were bystanders according to police. Basically a carriage house incident happened during IUPattys.

But I agree they need to calm down the IUPattys event.

[Chuck Norris]

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IUP students started this "tradition" in and around IUP's campus. IUP officials year after year fail miserably to curtail this garbage and it gets more and more out of control. Spare me the garbage about outside visitors or townies. This is IUP's problem and IUP's fault. And now they have blood on their hands.

[ctrabs74]

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Michelle Fryling has anounced that 2 of the 4 people injured are IUP students. This implies that the shooters were not. since she reports on IUP students. Now maybe she is waiting for more info from police but I'm thinking the real problem here are visitors.

One of my Facebook friends lives in Indiana Borough and was saying that a lot of the problems with the 'visitors' are drug-related. I can't say that I'm shocked, to be honest.