Sunday, February 10, 2002
so much work! will it never end? of course i already know the answer to that question, but it's mildly relieving to ask, even if i'm just talking to myself. the workload is bad enough, but the pain is only exacerbated by my near pathological tendency to procrastinate in every way possible. this includes anything ranging from finishing a book today that i was supposed to have read in the first three weeks of school to starting 5 page papers a mere 3 or 4 hours before they are due. but the cherry on top is that i have yet to do one single page of reading for my military history class this entire semester. yeah, i'm bad to the bone.
on the serious tip, a little over a week ago, a freshman girl was sexually assaulted in her dorm bathroom sometime after 1 am, and someone found her about 5 hours later. first off, send up a prayer for this woman, as she must be going through some unimaginable pain. as for the guy who did this...i can only say that this is one time i wish the taliban ruled our country. he should have his means of reproduction completely severed from the rest of his body. you say it's cruel and unusual, even uncivilized, but i say it's a whole lot more effective than the p.o.s. justice system we have in place now. and you can be daggumed sure there won't be any repeat offenders floating around. civil liberties or not, anyone sick and twisted enough to do something like that to another human being deserves whatever they get.
there has been a great unease around the campus as a result of this attack, along with an armed robbery in the gardens a couple of days after that. feathers have been ruffled, and understandably so. and once again, the university beuracracy has made a big show of making changes while not actually helping the situation much. the robbery, well, there's not much you can do about that. everyone knows there are no lights in there, and there are plenty of signs saying 'do not enter after dark,' but people persist, and sometimes the percentages catch up with you. i myself have often cut through there in the wee hours of the morning, but i think the word has spread from the muggers of my past that i'm a broke mofo, so nobody messes with me anymore.
to protect against future assaults in the dorms, administrators have decreed that every bathroom lock be changed so that you must use your key to enter, somewhat like your individual dorm room. i can see where they're trying to go with this, but in a practical sense, it won't help much. the fact that whoever did this got past the magnetic card readers at the front door makes me wonder if he can't defeat your everyday, run of the mill master lock. but putting that aside, let's just say this does actually make people safer (at least they'll think they are). following this logic, it makes sense that they would change the locks in female dorms and on floors that females live on. but why change the locks in all male halls/floors (such as mine)? do they really think i'm susceptible to sexual assault by a woman, or heaven forbid, another guy? only prison inmates and nypd officers do that sort of thing, and i spend little to no time in close proximity to either of those groups. i won't even mess with the topic of a female aggressor, for fear of being roundly chastised for having poor taste.
i must now prepare to give a newscast in spanish. adios and God bless.
sounds: third eye blind - camouflage
food for thought: shooting an elephant - george orwell
on the serious tip, a little over a week ago, a freshman girl was sexually assaulted in her dorm bathroom sometime after 1 am, and someone found her about 5 hours later. first off, send up a prayer for this woman, as she must be going through some unimaginable pain. as for the guy who did this...i can only say that this is one time i wish the taliban ruled our country. he should have his means of reproduction completely severed from the rest of his body. you say it's cruel and unusual, even uncivilized, but i say it's a whole lot more effective than the p.o.s. justice system we have in place now. and you can be daggumed sure there won't be any repeat offenders floating around. civil liberties or not, anyone sick and twisted enough to do something like that to another human being deserves whatever they get.
there has been a great unease around the campus as a result of this attack, along with an armed robbery in the gardens a couple of days after that. feathers have been ruffled, and understandably so. and once again, the university beuracracy has made a big show of making changes while not actually helping the situation much. the robbery, well, there's not much you can do about that. everyone knows there are no lights in there, and there are plenty of signs saying 'do not enter after dark,' but people persist, and sometimes the percentages catch up with you. i myself have often cut through there in the wee hours of the morning, but i think the word has spread from the muggers of my past that i'm a broke mofo, so nobody messes with me anymore.
to protect against future assaults in the dorms, administrators have decreed that every bathroom lock be changed so that you must use your key to enter, somewhat like your individual dorm room. i can see where they're trying to go with this, but in a practical sense, it won't help much. the fact that whoever did this got past the magnetic card readers at the front door makes me wonder if he can't defeat your everyday, run of the mill master lock. but putting that aside, let's just say this does actually make people safer (at least they'll think they are). following this logic, it makes sense that they would change the locks in female dorms and on floors that females live on. but why change the locks in all male halls/floors (such as mine)? do they really think i'm susceptible to sexual assault by a woman, or heaven forbid, another guy? only prison inmates and nypd officers do that sort of thing, and i spend little to no time in close proximity to either of those groups. i won't even mess with the topic of a female aggressor, for fear of being roundly chastised for having poor taste.
i must now prepare to give a newscast in spanish. adios and God bless.
sounds: third eye blind - camouflage
food for thought: shooting an elephant - george orwell
