This is strange:

The Oconee County [Georgia] Wal-Mart was under siege Friday night by a guerrilla performance art project staged by University students for their Studio Art 2810 final.

While I enjoy hearing about problems that befall Wal-Mart, I'm also slightly wishing that someone had fallen while running away from the store or something. This appears to have been some sort of group effort in order to get a grade. The teacher ought to flunk the lot of them for being inane, but that would probably require a showing of academic courage and resolve.¹

Another choice tidbit:

"Our one guideline was to not break any laws, because the intended purpose was that we didn't want to break any laws but we wanted new (policies) to have to be made," Kubie said. "I think we were pretty responsible in the way we executed our overall plan. There was no permanent damage and very little cleaning to be done."

Son, let me explain something to you: Performance art disruptions don't force new policies, other than to cause more trouble for people within your demographic. All you've done is irritate a Wal-Mart manager. You say that there's no permanent damage? How noble! Some poor employee's going to have to clean up after you, and all he's going to think about is how much he hates you. These little punks ought to be assessed the costs of cleaning whatever "temporary" damage was done. Good grief.

I wish my undergraduate days had been this easy. I suppose I was too busy trying to figure out just what the difference was between the various formulations of the categorical imperative, Mill v. Bentham, and lots of other high-brow crap that's been absolutely useless once I got clear of the presidential handshake on graduation day. Oh well.

Tip of the Wisconsin hat to DiVERSiONZ.

¹ Perhaps if they'd gone to the local mosque and protested Islamist terror, then we'd see some outrage in academia. Of course, it probably wouldn't matter because the mosque's staffers probably would have wasted the students, being the religion of peace and all.

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