Editorial
The threat within
Dylan Breslin-Barnhart
Issue date: 9/13/07 Section: Opinions
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A couple events at Concordiensis warrant mention. First, the 2007-08 academic year marks the paper's 130th birthday. Second, our office moved from the third to the fourth floor in the campus center. The new TVUC and WRUC offices are next door and together with Concordy constitute the duly dubbed "media wing."
I was going to devote this column to a sugar-coated description of the new office and how being next door to Union's other media organizations will generate further opportunities for growth and development through collaboration. But then again, I've gotten my fill of vapid vagaries just by listening to the college drawl on endlessly about its "strategic plan." It's like elevator music. And there's going to be no Kenny G. in this diatribe.
I am absolutely disgusted with the criminals among my peers. Keep in mind I'm not making some blanket statement about all Union students. Far from it, I'm referring to a certain insidious element within the Union student body. Much is always made of the outside menace certain degenerates in Schenectady pose to innocent students. There's good reason for this. But I don't think enough attention is being paid to the threat certain degenerates within this student body pose to innocent students.
I'm tired of the "sexual assaults." People need to be mad about this and openly denounce these rapes and other sex crimes. They're terrible acts that destroy the fabric of a community. It is sickening to think that the good students of Union College go to class with some rapists. It is unconscionable to imagine anyone having to call home and tell loving parents that they were sexually assaulted. The physical and psychological trauma endured by sex crime victims is utterly terrible.
Before I even moved back up to Union this year, a sexual assault occurred here. Talk about starting the year on the wrong foot. Like the article on Page One discusses, freshman had been at Union a matter of hours before this happened. Talk about starting college on the wrong foot.
I'm sure that the Class of 2011 realizes, along with everyone else, that there are actually very few real criminals among us. This means with swift action the bad few can be taken out of our community to face real justice. And this needs to happen now because their small numbers fail to diminish the severity of their crimes.
-Dylan Breslin-Barnhart
Editor in Chief
I was going to devote this column to a sugar-coated description of the new office and how being next door to Union's other media organizations will generate further opportunities for growth and development through collaboration. But then again, I've gotten my fill of vapid vagaries just by listening to the college drawl on endlessly about its "strategic plan." It's like elevator music. And there's going to be no Kenny G. in this diatribe.
I am absolutely disgusted with the criminals among my peers. Keep in mind I'm not making some blanket statement about all Union students. Far from it, I'm referring to a certain insidious element within the Union student body. Much is always made of the outside menace certain degenerates in Schenectady pose to innocent students. There's good reason for this. But I don't think enough attention is being paid to the threat certain degenerates within this student body pose to innocent students.
I'm tired of the "sexual assaults." People need to be mad about this and openly denounce these rapes and other sex crimes. They're terrible acts that destroy the fabric of a community. It is sickening to think that the good students of Union College go to class with some rapists. It is unconscionable to imagine anyone having to call home and tell loving parents that they were sexually assaulted. The physical and psychological trauma endured by sex crime victims is utterly terrible.
Before I even moved back up to Union this year, a sexual assault occurred here. Talk about starting the year on the wrong foot. Like the article on Page One discusses, freshman had been at Union a matter of hours before this happened. Talk about starting college on the wrong foot.
I'm sure that the Class of 2011 realizes, along with everyone else, that there are actually very few real criminals among us. This means with swift action the bad few can be taken out of our community to face real justice. And this needs to happen now because their small numbers fail to diminish the severity of their crimes.
-Dylan Breslin-Barnhart
Editor in Chief
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