Student arrested for making school Counter-Strike map

[Muscletang]

http://www.fortbendnow.com/news/2847...er-pc-game-map

Members of the area Chinese community have rallied behind a Clements High School senior who was removed from the campus and sent to M.R. Wood Alternative Education Center after parents complained he’d created a computer game map of Clements.

About 70 people attended the Fort Bend Independent School District’s April 23 meeting to show support for the Clements senior and his mother, Jean Lin, who spoke to FBISD Board trustees in a closed session.

While an agenda document does not specify details, the board is holding a special meeting tonight to address the boy’s actions and the discipline that was meted out as a result, sources close to the matter say. The boy’s name was not identified last week, and the district has declined to discuss his case.

Richard Chen, president of the Fort Bend Chinese-American Voters League and a acquaintance of the boy’s family, said he is a talented student who enjoys computer games and learned how to create maps (also sometimes known as “mods”), which provide new environments in which games may be played.

The map the boy designed mimicked Clements High School. And, sources said, it was uploaded either to the boy’s home computer or to a computer server where he and his friends could access and play on it. Two parents apparently learned from their children about the existence of the game, and complained to FBISD administrators, who investigated.

“They arrested him,” Chen said of FBISD police, “and also went to the house to search.” The Lin family consented to the search, and a hammer was found in the boy’s room, which he used to fix his bed, because it wasn’t in good shape, Chen said. He indicated police seized the hammer as a potential weapon.

“They decided he was a terroristic threat,” said one source close to the district’s investigation.

Sources said that although no charges were filed against the boy, he was removed from Clements, sent to the district’s alternate education school and won’t be allowed to participate in graduation ceremonies with classmates.

“All he did was create a map and put it on a web site to allow students to play,” Chen said. “The mother thinks this is too harsh.”

FBISD officials declined to comment on the matter Monday. “Our challenge is, people in the community have freedom of speech and can say what they want, but we have laws” covering privacy issues, especially involving minors, that the district has to respect, said spokeswoman Nancy Porter.

Speakers at the FBISD Board’s April 23 meeting alluded to the Clements senior’s punishment, and drew a connection to the April 16 shootings at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, in which a Korean student shot and killed 32 people.

The Asian community “faces new pressures” as a result of the shootings, William Sun told board members. “We urge the school and community not to label our Asian students as terrorists.”

“We should teach our children not to judge others harshly” and not to target people as being a threat because of their race, said Peter Woo, adding that the school district should lead the way in such efforts.

But Chen said Monday he and other community members don’t consider FBISD’s actions in the case to be racially motivated, and don’t think they blew the incident out of proportion.

“They all think the principal has to do something – but how much? We do understand with the Virginia Tech incident…something has to be done,” Chen said. “Someone just made a mistake, and we think the principal should understand that.”

Wow...just...wow...

What an age of fucktards we live in.

[MonsterBengt]

Haha, yeah, my CS map of my school looks much better than that. (Gonna get some pics up soon). What a world where people can't use func_wall properly, and use too much FX Amount, huh?

Wanna know what my teachers said when I told them I were making a CS map of the school? They thought it was really cool. I believe my Swedish teacher said I should mail the map to him when it's done.

[ikeyballz]

huh. its pretty nicely done too. just be glad he didnt make his principal and shit into hostages.

[03cavPA]

“They all think the principal has to do something – but how much? We do understand with the Virginia Tech incident…something has to be done,” Chen said. “Someone just made a mistake, and we think the principal should understand that.”

Nobody's really surprised by this, are they? We knew this would happen. People always go way too far the other way after incidents like VA Tech.
If nothing is done, and something bad happens, they'll all be screaming for somebody's head, won't they?

Damned if ya do, and damned if ya don't.

[MonsterBengt]

Originally Posted by ikeyballz

huh. its pretty nicely done too. just be glad he didnt make his principal and shit into hostages.

And that's exactly what I did.

[tenguzero]

It's a damn shame that this stuff gets blown out of proportion. Furthermore, this clearly demonstrates that we need to start profiling asian students when they enter school buildings

I remember at one point when I was in High School (I want to say around mid to late '98 -- some time right before the Columbine shootings) we were making whistles as one of our early projects in ceramics class. Some students were making pretty standard, pedestrian designs. A few were making some more creative stuff. Mine was actually a replica of a handgun, and simple logic dictates the location I had placed the hole to blow into. So at any rate, we all got a good laugh out of it, and my art teachers said it was definitely a first. In the end though, they decided it was probably not in the best interest of the art class to proceed with the kiln firing and glazing steps. So I mashed it up and submitted the "safer" option: a multi-tonal ninja death whistle with a big red spike on the front. Point being, no one thought anything of the whole event, because we all had a (slightly) firmer grounding in reality in those pre-Columbine times.

I know some of the first QBasic programs my friends and I hacked together involved blowing up the school and sniping people whatnot. That's just the kind of shit you're into when you're younger. I don't know -- this whole damn topic has been beat to a pulp so fine that there's nothing to swing at anymore. You almost want to just give up arguing about the stuff and let the PC-dipshits and their overwrought sense of self-worth just step in and ruin freedom of expression altogether.

Blah.

[TexasF355F1]

Reminds me of the fun times I had playing CS back in the day. I think it's funny this is in my area and I haven't heard anything on the news about it.

Shit's getting blown out of whack. The kid probably shouldn't have made it, wait, what am I saying. It's video game. But no....the PC'ers say that video games lead to violence.

Monster, post up the pics already.

[drewh4386]

if this is the case then I would hate it for everybody who bought rainbow six las vegas..........

[GForce957]

Man, that source map looks so much better then my old cs. I knew was going to happen, asian kid, map of school, but its just a sad thing to know i was right.