I don’t know how many of you have read the Daily Tar Hell today but the head line “Students Robbed at Gunpoint in Dorm” may have caught your attention. It turns out that I know the guys that were robbed, they live in Morrison. They are all really good friends with my suite mate, Kyle, and he goes over there almost every weekend to hang out. A couple of the guys have been over to our suite to hang out and those are the ones that I have met.
The crazy thing was that Kyle was thinking of going over there to watch the NCAA championship game (as freaking horrible as it was) but decided not to because of homework and studying for a test that he had today. That was just crazy that he could have been one of the ones that was robbed at gunpoint.
This just got me thinking about my security here at UNC, and it’s kind of bad. The main thing that keeps people out of the dorms is the key flex pass things, but with the way that students walk in and out of the dorms, I have no doubt in my mind that I could get into any dorm on campus with no trouble at all. All you have to do is be walking behind someone, I let people in behind me just because if you don’t hold the door open then you look like a complete asshole. If the flexpass is the only thing that is keeping people out that is kind of scary.
In the article they were talking about now they are going to lock their suite door, we cannot even do that with our suite door, only 3 of the 8 keys open the outside door, I have no clue why this is but my key is one of the ones that does not open the door so there is no way that we can consistently lock our outside suite door.
Another thing that pissed me off was that Alert Carolina didn’t send out a message. Your telling me there is a guy running around campus with a gun and robbing kids and you are not going to send out one of you fancy little text messages. The article said they caught one of the guys and they were unsure the other one had a gun, it doesn’t matter to me if he does, I would like to know.
It is scary to think about the security in dorms. While you can take action to keep yourself safe, you are also dependent on hundreds of other people to do the same. This recent event is telling of some of the security issues we face in college. I agree that Alert Carolina should have sent out a text message to let fellow students know of the danger. A simple and sufficient message could have stated that there had been an incident and that one of the two men was in custody. This would have given awareness to students, especially those living in or near Morrison. I do, however, believe that many of the articles in the DTH have been sensationalized. In today’s paper, there is a story that gives an account by the student that let the men into the residence hall. The details are dramatic and seem to come from a crime novel. If I wanted that I would turn on CSI, for a newspaper, though, I prefer the facts.
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