Whoops!

Christopher Bevan, student government president at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania, is getting a lesson in foot-in-mouth from the media this week.

Trying to defend the University's annual "Block Party", he sent an apparently-noticed letter to the "Press Enterprise of Bloomsburg" criticising the local media for having "painted BU students with a broad and negative brush and are both inaccurate and extremely unfair to the thousands of responsible, mature Bloomsburg students who are an asset to the school and this community..." Color JP skeptical, but ok.

Bevan was subsequently arrested for drunk driving last week, blowing nearly .15. Now his story is on cnn.com, which is where I yanked it.

I hope you've all learned something from Mr. Bevan: Condemning varsity mischief is a really awful idea when you're still in school, because we all do it (not necessarily drunk driving; if he had pulled a Frank the Tank and gotten a public intox, the story would've likely been no different), and you'll just make national news when you do as a result.