Comments on: without bias comes with mixed emotion

By: M.A.S.H.

M.A.S.H. — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:10:10 +0000

Clearly this evokes some serious emotions.

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By: terphed

terphed — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:34:00 +0000

I am listening to the Terp Talk radio show that MASH is participating in right now and the filmmaker, Kirk Fraser, mentioned a few times that he hopes this movie gives closure to the Len Bias incident. He said that his goal in making the film was to tie-up all the loose ends in the story. I think closure is a good way to put it. Let’s hope this film brings some closure to Bias’s life and death to everyone.

By: M.A.S.H.

M.A.S.H. — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:16:53 +0000

I’ve got a slightly different take. Like it or not, the story has staying power. Something — maybe several things — about this story make people care about it. Plenty of columns written over the years, but this is the first Bias movie in a while, which just by its medium provided a new perspective. I liked the movie (didn’t love it), but in general I don’t have a problem with it being rehashed.

By: terphed

terphed — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:44:59 +0000

I feel like it’s something painful and personal to the Maryland community, but the national media likes to bring it up every once in awhile to remind us how terrible it was because it’s sensational. It’s as if you suffered a personal tragedy twenty years ago and got through it with the help of a lot of therapy, but then you had this person that would call you every once in awhile and reopen the wound. It’s time to let it go.

By: bobwevodau

bobwevodau — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:45:44 +0000

I remember the day he died. I remember how big of a deal it was on the Baltimore news. I was 10 when he died and I was in High School when Walt Williams and Gary Williams were playing on probation. So though the probation and Bias’s death aren’t directly related, they are practically related. That is a long time for an event to reverberate (I hope that is the correct spelling). I have never done drugs of any kind, I base that on a lot of things like family and so forth, but I’d be lying that him dying like that, so quickly didn’t also come into play with my decision making.

By: chrisbixler

chrisbixler — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:30:52 +0000

I also have mixed feelings about the airing of this. While I know this show will portray the University in a negative light, it makes me proud to see how far the school has come(Thanks Gary). I remember thinking Maryland was a bad place when I first started to look at colleges, and to think I may not have the grades to get in now shows how far we have come.
The weird thing is I live in Boston now, and I remember all the hoopla surrounding the 20th anniversary of his death. So I decided to look through the Boston Globe online archives to get a perspective from up here, and some how I found my way to an auction website that was auctioning off the suit he wore to the draft. That just seemed so morbid to me, and that is when I began to realize this story didn’t have the impact on the world, that it had on me. That being said, I think there are a lot of people who had his death help them make a decision about doing coke when they were young, but if you didn’t grow up in the “Drug War” era, this story is nothing more than a tragic death, or a would he have been better than Jordan debate.