Seeking help for a new project...
- Thread starter JStanz51
- Start date
You’re close, but he was very open about operating the site, and my recollection is that every picture was taken/posted with the consent of the belly button’s owner.
Lived on second floor of Linden. Room was southeast corner. Secret service roaming the halls and sharpshooters on roof of CY and Larch
My sister was a freshman in '76, I remember her telling my parents and me about that.
The '04 Veisha Riot started on Hunt Street at the apartments on the far southwest end. Cops showed up in riot gear and busted the party. Told everyone to go home but made everyone walk to Welch Ave. as the bars were closing. Then all hell broke loose. Next thing I know people are getting beat with clubs and smoke everywhere. Cops were 100% responsible for that one.
Every step the cops took escalated the situation, they were itching for a fight.
- Roughly break up large house party in riot gear.
- Funnel people from said house party to Welch.
- Mass in middle of the crowd in full riot gear at Welch & Chamberlain, randomly pepper spraying/tear gassing people.
- Close down the bars in Campustown and force everyone out onto the street while also…
- Deploying tear gas and pepper spray from both Welch & Chamberlain and Welch & Lincoln Way
- Push the crowd across Lincoln Way and continue to tear gas them outside the largest dorm in the country. It was a warm night and Friley didn’t have AC so everyone’s windows were open.
- Cut the power to the surrounding neighborhoods, bringing anyone who was inside out.
I somehow missed this action. Watched the battle of the bands Concorde, decided to skip the bars and hang at my friends apartment. Woke up the next morning and saw what I missed on CNN.
My friends brother lived in Friley that year. He had tear gas drifting into his dorm room through the window.
Probably a good thing. I had a buddy up that weekend that got his ass beat by the police in my front yard. He had some pretty good welts on his back. Welcome to Ames!lol
The tear gas was noticeable at my apartment at Lincoln Way between Hyland and Sheldon. I can’t imagine how bad it would’ve been in the rooms of Friley.
Though they did change a lot of their behavior for Veishea 06, so it showed they had learned things even though they cleared themselves of all wrongdoing publicly. They were a lot more proactive about working with party hosts, stopping by early to meet the person who lived there, let them know they were there to help if things got out of control, hand out veishea swag, etc. Our little gathering on lincoln way got on the news when one of those cops stopped by around noon with a reporter doing a veishea story. It was a much more cooperative atmosphere and less the antagonistic one that contributed to the riot in 2004.
Of course, between there and Veishea 2014 they pretty much abandoned all those changes. They started showing up in full riot gear from the get go again, things were antagonistic again, concerts were moved off central campus (which was designed to have people doing things off welch\party streets), etc and we had predictable results.
Of course, that still doesn't excuse the stupid **** happening on a tuesday of all days. The university continuing to go with "veishea week" really didn't help things there.
Last edited:
Speaking of Veishea 2004, anyone else remember that disastrous comedy show friday night?
Hiawatha Rutland came out and basically attacked the crowd. Incredibly unfunny.
Then later there was some improv thing with Horatio Sanz and others, it went terribly. People just started leaving during their set. Jack McBrayer went on to talk about it a few years later:
I kind of give partial credit to the riot to that show for starting the weekend off on such a **** note.
Laughs missing through most of ‘Dew the Rec’
After many students waited in line for more than an hour just to get into “Dew the Rec,” it probably would have been more fun sitting in the dorms watching Comedy Central. The “Dew the Rec” show started terribly and although it recovered somewhat, it went on for far, far too long. Opening the...
iowastatedaily.com
Hiawatha Rutland came out and basically attacked the crowd. Incredibly unfunny.
Then later there was some improv thing with Horatio Sanz and others, it went terribly. People just started leaving during their set. Jack McBrayer went on to talk about it a few years later:
I kind of give partial credit to the riot to that show for starting the weekend off on such a **** note.
Awesome memory and reminder. Was telling something today about it (a bit younger) as they talked of music downloads from Limewire...i.explained how you could get ANY albumin seconds.
I arrived just late enough to hear of strangesearch but after it was gone.
I *do* remember however when itunes released for windows and suddenly every mp3 everyone had was viewable (and downloadable) on the network through itunes. I had a massive number of songs at one point.
I *do* remember however when itunes released for windows and suddenly every mp3 everyone had was viewable (and downloadable) on the network through itunes. I had a massive number of songs at one point.
Bought a Sega Dreamcast just because of Strangesearch. Burned a spindle of games one weekend.
(Now where in the hell did I put that a decade ago?)
The time Dwayne Crutchfield outran the 100 yard dash conference champion from San Jose State for about a 40-yard score.
Talked to Zevs many times. He served Wild Turkey at his “services”. He has his own Wiki page
Last edited:
