Yes, that is my proposed solution. Before cutting football, although it is
an expensive program, send those worthy engineering students with the
trebuchets to Nashville. Since I am basically pacifist by nature, I would
suggest arming the siege engines with only tennis balls or water balloons.
It would make great street theater, get media attention, and respond to the
long-standing state of siege that education has been under here . Anyone
care  to make donations so that the engineering department can build a
REALLY BIG TREBUCHET? I watched one group of students testing their
trebuchet outside Grote and it was great fun to watch. Nashville should see
these too--after all , the legislators seem to have been cowed by the
anti-tax rock throwers who broke windows last year. Here is a chance to
answer that act with more intelligence, more humor and less(zero) destruction.

Also: a thanks to Joe Dumas' for his courage in getting a valid discussion
underway. I think the bigger picture demands dramatic action.

Just one lowly adjunct faculty member who works five part-time jobs and
studies computer science on the side.(hey, as a student, I get cheap health
benefits!)