Dazed and confounded

Wildcat File Photo Arizona Daily Wildcat Graig Degel

I can't believe people think this is a big deal. I feel for Donnell. He had the weed, got caught and he paid his dues.

Unfortunately, somebody in the Casa Grande court system forgot to file his papers. Maybe he was too busy disposing of the evidence - wink, wink - against Harris.

So, there's Donnell driving home from renting a movie - I would really enjoy the irony if it was "Friday" - and he got pulled over and cuffed because, according to Casa Grande, he never finished his community service.

Say what you want about athletes and their "privileges;" I wouldn't want to do it. Why live in a fishbowl? Joe Q. Student gets arrested smoking his weed and his story makes Police Beat only if a better piece isn't there like somebody jerking off in the library.

Donnell gets arrested because somebody else screwed up and it's front page news. Please, I'll take anonymity any day.

College students do drugs. It's a fact of life. College students have parents who did a lot of drugs. Some of your parents are probably one Iron Butterfly song away from an acid flashback.

Along the way though, your parents decided that everything they did should be labeled evil.

Sex? Sorry. Drugs? Too bad. Rock 'n' roll? Thank you Tipper Gore.

Me? I enjoy a heavy dose of all three. Hey, who doesn't? Sure, my drugs are legal - I was in college three years before I turned 21, you figure it out - but the idea is the same.

Even the president likes all three. C'mon, his campaign song was by Fleetwood Mac, he tried weed and has too much sex. He's just like the rest of us.

The excesses of youth are wonderful things. Unfortunately, the world is full of people who don't remember that fact.

You know, Donnell once said that he liked to eat ice cream before games and I always wondered why. Now, I guess he just had the munchies.

There's a lot of people out there who think Donnell was wrong. I'm not one of them. Donnell didn't do anything that most of you haven't.

So keep sparking that bong and remember to "puff, puff, give."

Craig Degel is a journalism senior whose senior year was so nice, he's doin' it twice. He can be reached via e-mail at Craig.Degel@

wildcat.arizona.edu.