Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site pedsgd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!petsd!pedsgd!bobh From: bobh@pedsgd.UUCP (Bob Halloran) Newsgroups: net.games.frp Subject: Re: Violence and the arts Message-ID: <244@pedsgd.UUCP> Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 09:12:55 EDT Article-I.D.: pedsgd.244 Posted: Fri Aug 23 09:12:55 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 05:23:36 EDT References: <6601@ucla-cs.ARPA> <790@water.UUCP> Reply-To: bobh@pedsgd.UUCP (Bob Halloran) Organization: Perkin-Elmer, Tinton Falls, NJ Lines: 31 In article <790@water.UUCP> abgamble@water.UUCP (abgamble) writes: > > I noticed on CNN last night a report (from S. Carolina I think) about >a youngster who had committed suicide. Aparently he played D&D at >school quite a bit, so of course everyone has decided that D&D is to >blame for his death. A group of parents is now trying to have D&D banned >from the school. Unfortunately, I don't think this kind of reactionism >is all that uncommon. Give the principal of the school credit though, >as he has been supporting the game all the way. >-- I hate to admit it, since I live in this state, but the incident in question was in New Jersey, up here in the 'liberal' Northeast. It was reported in the NYTimes earlier in the week. At the school board meeting of the week, some fundamentalist minister dumped on the game. A local bookstore owner brought up the fact that millions of D&D sets have been sold, and that we gamers are not rushing out to kill ourselves or anyone else en masse. The Times was also good enough to print the fact that the boy in question had been in trouble with drugs earlier, and several of his acquaintances were quoted as saying "No, it wasn't D & D, he was a druggie." Bob Halloran Sr MTS, Perkin-Elmer DSG ============================================================================= UUCP: {ihnp4, decvax, ucbvax}!vax135!petsd!pedsgd!bobh USPS: 106 Apple St M/S 305, Tinton Falls NJ 07724 DDD: (201) 758-7000 Disclaimer: My opinions are my own. Quote: "History is made at night. Character is what you are in the Dark."