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SNOWBALL FIGHT
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"He got on my back and started
punching me in the face," Miras-
eedi said.
Miraseedi remembers hear-
ing something snap when he was
punched, but he didn't have too
much time to think about the noise.
A group of his friends pulled the
man off of him and helped Miras-
eedi to his feet. His face was numb,
and a friend didn't see any blood,
so Miraseedi rejoined the snowball
fight.
But after the snowball fight
ended, Miraseedi said he saw that
his nose was "deformed," and his
resident advisor recommended he
go to the emergency room.
Miraseedi said a doctor at the
University Hospital later confirmed
that his nose had been broken.
Miraseedi's broken nose was not
an isolated incident. Many other
students interviewed in the days
following the snowball fight report-
ed that the cherished campus tra-
dition degenerated into what one
student called a mel6e.
There were reports of a paintball
gun and firecrackers in the crowd.
Some students were seen flinging
bottles full of frozen water at the
opposing side. A number of partici-
pants climbed onto a car parked in
front of West Quad, while others
said they saw groups of people pick
up other students and punch and
kick them.
Meanwhile, officers from the
Department of Public Safety
blocked off Madison Street and
watched the fight from the side-
lines.
POLICE PRESENCE
The snowball fight begins every
year when a student in each dorm
pulls the fire alarm shortly after
midnight on the night of the first
major snowfall. After that, hun-
dreds of students pour out of both
residence halls and meet on Madi-
son Street.
The University is not involved in
arranging the event.
Still, Stacey Parker, the coordina-
tor of residence education for South
Quad, sent an e-mail in January to
South Quad residents letting them
know about the fight.
Although Parker's e-mail
reminded students that the event
is not sanctioned by University
Housing and that pulling the fire
alarm is illegal, she gave tips to
South Quad residences about how
their dormitory had won the fight
in the past.
Department of Public Safety
spokeswoman Diane Brown said
DPS officers usually arrive at the
event to block off both ends of the
street between the two dorms to
ensure that cars are not caught in
the crossfire.
In previous years, Brown said,
some started targeting vehicles
trying to drive down Madison
Street.
Brown said that aside fromblock-
ing off traffic, police officers didn't
get involved in the event. Instead,
they are at the fight to make sure
that people and property don't get
hurt or damaged, she said.
SNOW, FISTS AND
FIRECRACKERS
Engineering sophomore Erik
Hanson was one of several students
who reported hearing a loud bang
in the middle of the crowd.
"There was a big bang and a
smoke," he said.
In the aftermath of the snowball
fight, rumors swirled that someone
had been firing a paintball gun into
the street.
Brown said she had not heard
reports of fireworks or a paintball
gun during the fight.
Several students also reported a
seeing a group of four or five large
males picking up a single person
from the south side of the street,
carrying the person back toward
West Quad and throwing the per-
son on the ground before kicking
and punching their victim.
"It happened four or five times,"
said LSA sophomore Andrew Cas-
cini. "It is very scary. What if that
happened to me?"
LSA sophomore Ben LeRoy, who
saw the snowball fight winding
down when he returned from the
Michigan-Michigan State basket-
ball game earlier that night in East
Lansing, said he saw two students
using a plastic bag as a sling to lob
heavy objects into the crowd.
In anticipation of the annual
event, some students froze water
bottles and snowballs in their
rooms.
Brown said there have been
reports in past fights of people
freezing snowballs, soda cans or
using other materials that could
be considered weapons during the
snowball fight.
Brown said such behavior could
be considered assault.
LOOKING FOR HELP
Several students said they
wished DPS had been a more vis-
ible presence during the snowball
fight.
After he was injured during the
snowball fight, Cascini began to
think about the kind of things that
might go unseen by DPS.
Cascini was with a group of fel-
low South Quad residents who were
trying to take a bucket full of cold
water away from a few West Quad
residents when he was injured.
Cascini said he was running into
the street at about 12:40 a.m. in an
attempt to grab the bucket before
the cold water was thrown onto
South Quad residents, when some-
one clotheslined him, knocking
him on his back on the curb.
"I got up as fast as I could - I was
a little bit stunned," Cascini said.
"I was told later by a friend that I
landed directly on my back and it
looked really bad."
Although his back was stiff and
bruised for several days, Cascini
said he felt lucky he was not seri-
ously injured.
"It was scary that I could have
been seriously hurt had I hit my
neck on the curb," he said.
Cascini said he understands
that the big mass of people run-
ning around throwing snow pres-
ents a difficult situation for police,
because it is difficult to hold any-
one accountable.
"Suppose someone in the street
had gotten stabbed," he said. "The
police are off at the ends of the
street, it is possible they wouldn't
know."
LeRoy, who will be an RA next
year, said he thinks people realize
their anonymity during the event
and feel free to be violent.
"It is like you can do whatever
you want because there are no con-
sequences," LeRoy said.
Brown said police block off the
street and watch the snowball fight
in order to mitigate injuries.
"To stop the snowball fight when
it could be a bunch of people hav-
ing a good time is not the solution
to the problem," Brown said. "If
things begin to escalate, then that
presents a different problem."
Only one person reported an
injury to DPS after this year's
snowball fight.
"For the most part, this is still
an event with very little property
damage and very little injury,"
Brown said.
Brown said many students see
police at the fight and assume that
officers should be getting involved,
even though they are just there to
watch and make sure nothing gets
out of hand.
"We don't want this to be a
police state here at the University,"
she said. "It is a place where people
need to live and learn and you need
to balance how you can do that and
still maintaina safe environment."
THE FUTURE OF
A TRADITION
Cascini said he was shocked by
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the amount of violence during the
snowball fight and worried about
the event's future.
"It makes me really sad that such
a great tradition turns into some-
thing so violent," he said.
Many students voiced similar
concerns.
"Everyone is having a good time,
and a couple of people take it a step
to far and ruin everyone's fun,"
Mirsaeedi said.
On the West Quad side of Madi-
son Street, Hanson said he was hit
in the back of the head and tripped
by rival students as he tried to cap-
ture the South Quad flag.
"Someone grabbed the back of
my legs and I fell over and hit my
head on the sidewalk," Hanson
said.
He remembers one of his friends
from South Quad helping him to
his feet, and being helped back
into West Quad by other students,
but his recollection of the precise
details was hazy because of the
blow he sustained to his head.
Hanson said that Housing Secu-
rity Officer Jason Green asked him
if he wanted medical assistance for
his head injury, but he declined.
Instead, Hanson said, a few of
his friends kept him up though the
night because they feared that he
had sustained a concussion.
But Hanson shared the senti-
ment of what is likely the vast
majority of students: He hopes the
snowball fight continues.
"I thought it was a lot of fun,"
Hanson said. "I probably didn't
have a normal experience, but it
was worth it."
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