Reports about WSU QB Marshall Lobbestael being arrested for MIP and which happened after he was found passed out in the back of a truck may have been wrong. News sources such as the Moscow-Pullman Daily News and Cougfan are calling BS on the story.
The blog Hotdog & Friends has a rundown of what is being desputed:
It’s tough keeping up with all the news coming out of Pullman regarding WSU starting qb Marshall Lobbestael getting arrested for being a ”minor exhibiting the signs of having consumed alcohol”. Note that he did NOT get charged with MIP.
Cougfan.com has learned from reliable independent sources that: 1) Lobbestael was not “passed out”, 2) that the woman he was helping to walk was not unconscious, 3) that Lobbestael spoke with police on two occasions just prior and was not arrested.
Update: A different news report later quoted a Pullman police officer saying Lobbestael was “slumped over with a grocery bag of vomit between his feet”. CF.C has since learned it was instead a car trash bag, similar to what someone might put on a stick shift, that contained some McDonalds wrappers and other garbage, but no “vomit”.
WSU QB Marshall Lobbestael was nailed for MIP over the weekend. Now this is not a shocking event, 19 college kid getting an MIP, but the circumstances… according to reports he was nailed for it at the Pullman Police station parking lot after passing out in the back of truck.
Sophomore Marshall Lobbestael, 19, was arrested after officers say they found him passed out in a pickup truck at the police station.
Pullman officers were in contact with Lobbestael twice on Saturday. The first run-in happened on College Hill when officers saw him carrying an unconscious woman. They took her into custody for MIP.
About an hour after that is when they found Lobbestael in the pickup truck at the station. They were able to wake him and arrest Lobbestael for MIP.
WSU’s Sports Information Director says Lobbestael has been suspended from the team while Head Coach Paul Wulff looks into the case.
The UW Daily had a story last week on HB 1706 that State Rep. Dave Quall, D-MT has introduced. It would allow undocumented students to receive state need grants if they qualify. To qualify you need to be a resident and earn 70 percent less than the median income in WA.
Currently undocumented students pay in state tuition if they meet residence requirements.
Should these students be able to get state need grants? An argument for would be if these students came here by no fault of their own, their parents brought them, and they worked for grades to get into college shouldn’t we support them? Clearly they are motivated.
An argument against is they are here illegally, why should we pay for non citizens when we already have budget problems?
Now we would not advocate leaving WSU but if you ran out of money or don’t want to pay anything for grad school Mental_floss has a list of some schools that charge $0 tuition. Of course it is not quite as simple as signing up you would still have to get accepted to one of the schools and many of them require you work a certain amount of hours each week but for the asking price it is still a good deal.
Back in the fall of 2007 WSU President Elson Floyd touted the started his blog entitled eFloyd Connects as a medium were he would share his thoughts in a less formal way. We were skeptical how “The paradigm shifts into the blogosphere” thing would play out. The Quixotic Qoutidian (no longer online) summed it up perfectly.
A quick visit to Floyd blog returns the default message:
Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn’t here.
Better search for a paradigm shift somewhere else…
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Mentalfloss has a post on college roomates who turned out to be noteable for some reason or another. We decided to create a poll on this, look to the left side and vote. We are sure a lot of you would just be happy with a roomate who actual picked up after themselves…
