Towson University host, at Featherdown Farm:

Novice Flat section A - Drew Duhan - 6th
Novice Flat section B - Jennifer Mohr - DNP (really bratty pony, tough ride)
Novice Flat section C - Ashlee Della Mae Fleming - 3rd
Novice Fences section B - Maura Gay - 1st
Adv. W/T/C section A - Amber Myers - reserve (7th)

Thanks so much to our coach Sherri Fram as well as all of the friends and family who came out to support us today!

**The Fall 2011 show season is officially over. Lookout Spring 2012 because here we come!

There’s nothing like a little pepper spray in the face to get folk’s attention.

At the University of California, Davis an unfortunate campus fracas featuring the “Occupy” movement and an assertive police force has got the nation’s attention.

Last week the “Occupy” movement organised a series of protests on the UCD campus. When tents went up on Thursday, the University Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi gave a 3PM Friday deadline for the encampment to disperse. The protesters ignored the directive.

At 3:30PM on Friday the police were sent in on the Chancellor’s orders. When a group of students linked arms and sat on the ground, police unloaded pepper spray into their faces.

The graphic image (above) of UC Davis Police Lieutenant John Pike spraying seated, passive students spread online immediately.

Students and faculty are now holding the Chancellor responsible for what they consider overly-aggressive action, and calling for her resignation,

In an email to students a professor, Bob Ostertag, stated

Throughout my life I have seen, and sometimes participated in, peaceful civil disobedience protests in which sitting and linking arms is understood by both police and citizens as a posture that indicates the clearest possible way available to them, protesters’ intent to be non-violent.

The Chancellor (In the photo below) has since commented that the students were forewarned and that the issue needs further discussion.

If our policies do not allow our students enough flexibility to express themselves, then we need to find a way to improve these policies and make them more effective and appropriate.

Courtesy of The California Aggie

Was the situation justified or have the authorities gone too far? Are the times (or policies) a-changin? How would you react if this happened at your school?

UPDATE: Our favorite web reaction to the incident can be seen below. Title: A quiet afternoon at UC Davis.

Thanks to Gizmodo!

Netflix has had a rough few months. In July, they angered customers by bumping up their prices. Then, in October, they saw record losses, as thousands of subscribers fled.

But one move is likely to make up for it all.

They’re bringing back Arrested Development!

The show’s revival became news a couple weeks ago. An announcement of a feature film preceded by a handful of new episodes left fans wondering where they could watch. Having beat out Hulu and Showtime, Netflix will be the series’ new home.

Since Netflix started licensing original series, the service has been seen as a potential savior for ill-fated productions that get shuttered over the objections of a cult following too narrow to sustain them. But rescuing a show that comes with a built-in audience–albeit one too small to survive on TV–may be a safer strategy than creating a new property out of whole cloth.”

New episodes won’t be available until 2013, but it doesn’t mean we can’t be excited now!