{"id":3102,"date":"2007-02-04T01:19:27","date_gmt":"2007-02-04T01:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/02\/write-your-own-joke.html"},"modified":"2007-02-04T01:19:27","modified_gmt":"2007-02-04T01:19:27","slug":"write-your-own-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/02\/write-your-own-joke.html","title":{"rendered":"Write your own joke"},"content":{"rendered":"

Things get violence during a death-penalty discussion. <\/a><\/p>\n

In a class on the virtuous life.<\/p>\n

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When the discussion turned to the death penalty, a male student said he was for capital punishment because the public shouldn\u2019t have to pay to keep convicted killers in prison.<\/p>\n

Walters said death penalty cases cost even more money, and the other student replied that lawyers were to blame.<\/p>\n

The student said Walters then punched him in the face before their professor intervened, according to police.<\/p>\n

The seminar, part of the Catholic university\u2019s core requirements, is designed to explore \u201cthemes of identity and the relationship between self and community by moving beyond the experience of the self to focus on various historical and contemporary portraits of the virtuous life,\u201d according to Saint Mary\u2019s catalog. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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