campus riots! this reminds me of a story from my Western Civ course
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in the old days of universities--like, medieval--university students were considered clerisy. tonsured and everything. but it was temporary
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even still, because they were clerics, they fell under a separate church legal code rather than the secular and they got other perks too
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in particular, clergy were protected from violence by laity under pain of death
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so of course university students would spill into town, get roaring drunk, and harass residents knowing they were untouchable
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you might even go so far as to say there was intense and useful dialogue. /thread https://twitter.com/EvergreenStCol/status/867549336225239044 …
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