PHOTO GALLERY: MU students react to death of Osama bin Laden

I gotta say, this rampant display of overt jingoism both disgusts and troubles me...

May the " peace & blessings of Allah be upon Brother Osama !

So turn off your TV or watch NPR. No wait that wont work either because then you would be forced to watch American bad mouthing at its finest.

@ Louis Schneebaum:

Well, Louis, it seems that KOMU doesn't agree with you. The lead for their 6 PM news broadcast tonight was that the students were "expressing their patriotism." Of course "jingoism" can be defined as misguided patriotism.

KOMU is obviously a very serious journalistic enterprise, so serious that they operate a booster relay facility in order to reach Rolla, Missouri, but Rolla residents find the only way to see TV news about their own campus is to watch TV from St. Louis and Springfield).

Have you ever noticed that spontaneous demonstrations about any subject that occur on American college and university campuses aren't uniform as to frequency and ardor? They seem to occur more frequently on campuses where subjects such as art history, psychology and basket weaving are popular but less frequently where differential equations, thermodynamics and kinematics are required subjects. Maybe in the latter case that's because students are too busy to demonstrate, and must actually learn to ration their spare time.

@Ellis Smith

I'm confused as to why you're bringing up Rolla in a photo gallery about MU. It's true that Rolla doesn't have a dedicated broadcast news station, but that doesn't mean the residents don't get informed about what's going on with MST. The newspaper does a good job covering the campus, and the town is small enough that most "breaking news" gets sent around word-of-mouth. If the campus or town news is big enough, Springfield, St. Louis and Columbia stations will come down to cover it. Other than that, the town isn't big enough of a market to support a nightly newscast (19,500 people in Rolla versus 108,500 in Columbia). In any case, it's good to see the students excited about a major world event like this, even if they could have been better about not trashing the street with bottles and TP. I was a freshman at my first semester at Mizzou when the planes hit the twin towers. Freshman year is life-changing enough without something like this happening. It truly made a mark on me as I embarked into my adult life.

Nobody is suggesting a nightly news cast or even a weekly or monthly news cast, although the campus has a fully functional TV studio (currently used for continuing education). KOMU boosts its signal into Rolla and no doubt solicits advertising from Rolla merchants, but how much news coverage of MS&T is there on KOMU? There's occasional coverage by St. Louis and Springfield TV stations (as well as occasional coverage by both St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Springfield News-Leader, but rarely by the Missourian).

Springfield is home to a rather large public university but the media still finds time for news about MS&T. Perhaps Springfield is simply a "generous" city.

There's a standing joke among UMKC, UMSL and MS&T folks that if we want coverage from KOMU or the Missourian all we need to have is something absolutely horrible happen at one of our campuses. THAT would be covered. Pardon us if we don't want something horrible to happen.

KOMU's weather map shows Rolla in the coverage area, but apparently weather is the only item of interest in Rolla.

Corey Parks:

You are a moron. Good day.

As has been said elsewhere, the images of American college kids chanting "USA, USA" were tweeted and otherwise communicated throughout the world, no doubt encouraging a whole new generation of jihadists who view the USA as a war-mongering, anti-Islamic imperial power. Inevitable, I suppose, and sad.

It also causes us to appear like, under-educated, blindly patriotic, sloppy goons. These are supposed to be our educated people, a rung or two up the social ladder. Classy.

@ "Louis":

Any relationship between formal education and common sense is at best poorly defined.

Eric Hoffer, American (1902-1983), is considered one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century, yet Hoffer had almost no formal schooling and spent much of his early life as a migrant worker and longshoreman. At age 15 Hoffer was nearly blind. His philosophy fills nine (9) published books. Surely they teach MU students about Hoffer. They do, don't they? Even rude, crude, and socially unacceptable engineers know about Hoffer.

Google Hoffer for more information.