March 23, 2007
Didn't think they'd have the guts
I didn't notice this as it was happening, probably because I was busy at the time (my appellate brief was due the same day) but on March 9, the Notre Dame police (not rent-a-cops, but an actual police force w/jurisdiction) arrested several Equality Ride members for trespassing.
I don't think I can say just how pleased I am at this outcome. I don't usually read the campus newspaper, but apparently there's only been one article and one letter to the editor on the subject, and the letter wasn't from a student, but an alumnus. So apparently Notre Dame managed to arrest several members of a deliberately provocative gay rights group that was trespassing on campus and no one said boo.
This, I suggest, constitutes spectacularly bad planning on the part of Soul Force (still kills me to write such a terrible name). Why? Because Notre Dame's spring break started on the 10th, and most of the student body cleared out on the 9th.
Genius.
