Josh Rupert is going to be Elmo for Halloween. And Elmo does not riot….He’ll hit the town on Friday night, but on Saturday, Rupert says he plans to “stay far away from State Street.”
“It’s not my type of environment. It’s just too packed,” said Rupert, a fifth-year senior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Last year, I got caught in the middle of what happened. I felt out of place. I got tear-gassed.”
Meanwhile, Ben Karp, a sophomore from Mankato, Minn., said he is looking forward to staying downtown “till the riots.”
….”It’s just fun. It’s a good time. Fires in the street. Tear gas and everything,” Karp said, adding he intended to watch, not participate.
UW-Madison officials are hoping more students fall into Elmo’s camp.