lax culture from an insider
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STA also put a specific prohibition against these guns in the student guidelines (page 6): http://www.stalbansschool.org/document.doc?id=493 |
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BB guns or air soft guns are almost always non-lethal , but they are designed to look like real rifles or hand guns. People not familiar with guns are just as easily terrorized by a "replica" as they are by the real thing: http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_22242716/oakland-student-bb-gun-prompts-school-lockdown Young men of middle eastern ethnicity with rifles (real or replica) are especially vulnerable to profiling in places like NW DC. |
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There was an announcement that Johns Hopkins is joining the Big10 and they will create a new LAX league. Question....would top talent consider going to non-traditional LAX schools like Northwestern, Wisconsin or Michigan?
I think there might be enough interest in these schools academically and socially to make them relatively competitive early on. Thoughts? |
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1. Neither NW nor Wisconsin has a NCAA lacrosse program (though NW does have one for women which is a powerhouse) 2. Lots of top recruits are going to "non-traditional" lacrosse programs. Michigan had the best club program in the country, and converted to D1 last year. They are getting good recruits. 3. Lots of great lacrosse kids are going to D1, D2 and D3 schools. It's not like the best players are only going to one of, say, five schools. |
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re: #1
The presumption is some of these schools would start programs. Would good LAX players be interested in the challenge of being charter D1 athletes at these schools to get them competitive quickly? Hence the question. I know they don't have programs now. |
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Title IX is an issue (not insurmountable) for schools with big football programs |
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Why would Sidwell Friends be locked down because of an incident on the NCS/STA campus? |
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Because the President's daughters are on the Sidwell campus. |
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This was clearly a case of profiling based on the middle eastern ethnicity of the two boys |
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When Michigan became a Division 1 lacrosse program 2 years ago, it was the first BCS school in 31 years to start a D1 lacrosse program. 31 years. Title IX is certainly a factor (and it has nothing to do with the school playing football, as someone later noted), but there are other ones as well. A big reason why the B10 brought in Johns Hopkins as a lacrosse-only member is because bringing in Rutgers and Maryland only gets the B10 (who already have Michigan, Ohio State and Penn State) to five. You need six schools in a league to have an automatic qualifier, so rather than wait for MSU or someone else to start a program, it made a lot more sense to woo Johns Hopkins. In other words, you cannot assume a school like Wisconsin is going to start a D1 lacrosse program any time soon. |
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| I am aware of this. But the question was, would local lax players be interested in being the foundation for a BCS level lacrosse program, if one (or 3) were created. Men's or Women's. Most of these schools already have clubs and play the other schools on a routine basis. |
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| For those of you who think that lacrosse is your child's ticket to a great collegiate education, check out today's Wash Post and see where the All Mets are going next year. Some of the colleges may be good lacrosse schools (Towson, Loyola etc), but hardly even academically average. The days of area schools sending their best high school players to Ivies and ACC are over. Recruiting has expanded and the competition is fierce. So please, chill out and let your kid play sports for fun. Stop living through them and for chrissakes don't make them feel this is the only way to advance to the next level. |
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I think it was, instead, a "post-Columbine/Virginia Tech" reaction. Several passerby saw some young men getting out of a car with what appeared to be a high-powered rifle (instead, an AirSoft BB gun designed to look like a high-powered rifle), and called the police, which in turn triggered a lockdown. Most of the mass shooting episodes in this country are young white males and I believe the same reaction -- calls to the police resulting in a lockdown -- would have happened without regard to race/ethnicity. |
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Landon LAX has kids headed to Cornell, Penn (2), UVA and Colgate - though these boys probably would have been admitted on academics alone. |