Red Cedar River

Back in the fall of 2017, I started my freshman year at Michigan State University.

There's a trail behind some dorms, collectively called River Trail Dorms, because of their proximity to the Red Cedar River and the woods.

The trail is colloquially called the Rape Trail because you enter it through a gap in a fence and it can be known for some unsavory activity at night.

I had never heard of an assumed happening there while I was there.

I have no reason to believe that.

Back in 1971, I think it was, maybe it was 1970, there is a picture that I have that I cut out from the Michigan State University student newspaper of me standing by the Red Cedar River with my girlfriend, and I'm standing, she's sitting between my legs, and we're on a rock, and she's holding my legs, and sticking out of my pocket is Paul Ehrlich's The Population Bomb.

That was a book written 50 years ago about how the world's going to come to an end because there's too many people.

I mean, it's just silly.