From: byron@athena.mit.edu (Jack Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.skate-board
Subject: Stuff Re: Skateboards not welcome at U of M - and they don't care
Date: 12 Apr 92 17:07:41 GMT
Article-I.D.: athena.1992Apr12.170741.11281
Organization: SKaters At Massachusetts Institute of Technology

In article <1992Apr11.014808.28680@uc.msc.edu> eab@uh.msc.edu (Edward Bertsch) writes:
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>Page 5, Minnesota Daily, Friday, 10 April 1992
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>More than a dozen skaters came to applaud their skates being 
>recognized as a viable form of transportation.
>
>[...]
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>Stephen Miller, a College of Liberal Arts junior who likes to
>commute to school by skateboard, was the lone representative
>of skateboarders.
>
>[...]
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>"I think the key here is public safety," he said, ending discussion
>of the skateboard ban.
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>
>OK, so what the fuck is the difference between skateboards as transportation
>and puss-skates as transportation?
>

	Nothing, except that you can PICK UP a skateboard and CARRY IT
if population gets dense and you don't want to hurt anyone.
Puss-skates (heh..I like that) are tied/strapped to your feet, so
you're less likely to take 'em off to avoid running into trouble.  In
my eyes, boards are a much more viable and safe transportation
alternative to blades.  But guess what?  Puss-skates are in, they're
hip, they're cool, they're hyped everywhere in print and on TV, they
are the NEW FITNESS THING.  Skateboarding, on the other hand, is only
a way of life to the lowest of the low.  Gotta say, it pisses me off
to no end.

>And what a bunch of wimps, only one guy showed up.  Congrats to S. Miller,
>but he should have russled up a few friends to attend this friendly
>meeting.

	I'll bet he tried.  I'm guessing his friends aren't taking the
ban seriously and figure on skating anyway.  It'll be interesting to
see if there are any developments...

	(If this kind of thing happens here, you can be sure all of
SKAMIT will be there to fight it to the wall.)

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	In other news, I was skating at Copley Fountain (big street
skater hangout here in Boston) on Friday in the 70+ weather, when this
large group of people shows up claiming to be MTV Sports.  They film
some shots of the 20 of us and take off about twenty minutes later.
Whether they were for real or not, I don't know but if you happen to
see a short piece on skaters on MTV, if you see a guy in a black Santa
Cruz Cap, grey KnoW Skateboarding t-shirt, black shorts, white socks,
and black, olive, and white Airwalk Disasters screwing up an easy
trick, chances are that's me.  :-)

	Warning: The raddest guy there (he landed an amazing backside
lip-to-backside 50/50-to-lip-to-tailslide-to-revert on the fountain edge-
stylish as fuck) snapped his board during filming.  He was royally
pissed because he had only been riding it for three days, and the
board he rode right before that ALSO snapped in three days.  So he has
no money and no skate.  The one he snapped at the fountain was the new
DUNE.  Is that a World board?  Because the board he broke before that
was a World board, he said.  Are World boards that soft?  Be careful
when buying that new deck...
	
	That's all for now.  Gotta work.  :-( Ah well, it's raining
here anyway.

				--Halloween Jack.
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