[01LUGrad]

And we thought LUPD had a tendency to overreact...

Using social media, Old Dominion University students in Norfolk pulled off an impressive flash mob on campus Thursday night.

The ODU administration knew it was happening and so did ODU Police.

ODU police, which followed the crowd from a nearby garage, into the library. Assistant Police Chief Paul Midgett said, "the understanding was this was a peaceful crowd. We monitored it. In hindsight, we could have stopped them at the front door, but that would pose other problems too."

Jennifer Revis was in the library studying and watched it all unfold, "it was all positive until the pepper spray." Once the crowd surfing started, police were concerned people could get hurt. Five ODU police officers tried to yell the crowd out of the library, but five couldn't out yell hundreds. The decision was made to bring out the pepper spray and officers were caught on tape spraying it.

There is a video in the link- http://www.wavy.com/dpp/news/local_news ... du-library

[LUconn]

I actually saw this group listed on an ODU student's page. Real stealthy, mob. Why not just put fliers around campus announcing what you're doing.

[01LUGrad]

JMU did one earlier this week. It was about 100x better...and there wasn't any pepper spray involved.

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[rueful]

wow that makes college look like so much fun. Id be ticked if I was in the library and everyone decided to have a party in it. I get ticked when im in the library studying and people are talking to loud about something that no one else gives a crap about yet they are yelling, though, so maybe im just weird.

[matshark]

um, they have every right to assemble.

Here's hoping ODU gets sued for infringing on their student's rights. pepper spray for crowd surfing? really?

[LUconn]

I'm not a lawyer, and it is a public university, but libraries do have a lot of rules.