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Posted May 2nd 2007 7:30AM by John Bardinelli
from Joystiq (http://www.joystiq.com/) and FortBendNow (http://www.fortbendnow.com/news/2847/chinese-community-rallies-behind-student-removed-from-clements-over-pc-game-map)


A Chinese student was removed from Clements High School in Fort Bend, Texas after parents complained he had re-created the school grounds in a game and uploaded the map for his friends to play. The boy was placed in the district's alternate education school and later arrested, as the police considered him a "terroristic threat". The Chinese community and the boy's mother have rallied behind him, saying the school has acted too harshly in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings. No charges were filed, though the boy won't be allowed to participate in graduation ceremonies.

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.

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.

“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.

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.

Here's an update:
from FortBendNow


Computer Game Violence Level, Confiscated Swords Led To Student's Removal (http://www.fortbendnow.com/news/2850/fbisd-police-found-5-swords-at-home-of-student-removed-from-clements-over-computer-game)

Officials also weighed whether there might be a connection between the swords found in the boy's room, and “weapons depicted in the game itself,” Simpson said. “You see these big, dark hands with knives in them” in the boy's modified Counterstrike version.

What game did he design a level of his school in ?  FPS like doom or someting newer ?

You know if it was Micro Machines, Care Bears, or Golf it probably wouldn't matter much anyway, it would still cause undue concern.

Nerds are now the most dangerous educational demographic now. :ninja: :o

Scary how the world has changed. 

I suppose I had better turn myself in, I was speeding while playing Need fo Speed and have been doing so for several years now with impunity. Big Brother indeed.

I foresee the needless ban on map editors coming real soon.

For the article you posted seems like overkill to me.

NOOOOOOO!!!!! I must have my Far Cry map editors!!!!!!!!  :o :o :o :o

If I make a map of the inside of my house, add dungeon wall textures of it, a fire breathing dragon, and a few goblins, does that mean I wana kill off my entire family?  I happen to have a number of razor blades in my bathroom (one used atleast every other day) as well as an exacto knife in my office just a few feet away from me. 

School systems were half decent in my day, they've gone to hell in a hand basket sense then.  What's next?  How students wipe?  Could that be considered a means of terrorism?

Fort Bend isnt that far from where I live.

The video game world needs an anti-JT spokes person to defend our rights against these adult newbs who don't know WTF is going on.

I vote Morgan Webb, she has boobs.

2nd vote from me.

Let's add Kristen Holt and Olivia Munn as well.

This is sad, and goes to prove that your first amendment rights mean nothing. Freedom of Speech? No, not in this case.

#3
She was the winner of the playboy thing that TEchTV ran years back. As far as i know nothing ever came of that contest... Or maybe Dian Mizota one it... either way AFAIK nothing came of it.

On the topic at hand.
Me and Dan had made maps of our houses, schools, and other public areas.
I think it is totally being blown out of purportion.
OMG he had swords/knives!.
They match the ones in game... i think. He was going to hack down every student in the school obviously.

I hate people.

Webb won, she politely refused the offer.

FHM has had some nice pics though...

I know i had them all online and on my computer at one point.

Go thru the desktop thread i believe she was the one i posted at some point.

Unless that was one of the countless other desktop threads on one of the other sites i was a temp member at...
Maybe the Darkwatch or Frame City Killer forums...

Pics of the map he had made:

Images of the Clements High student's "terroristic" maps (http://www.joystiq.com/2007/05/03/images-of-the-clements-high-students-terroristic-maps/)

They look pretty good to me.

The kid has talent!