| Another Mysterious Campus Murder? As we start off the month of April, it seems as though college students across America are daunted by yet another murder of a University of Wisconsin student. To my understanding, at this point in time the murders are not connected. But it is just a little erie that these incidences keep happening. Especially since I am like many of those girls. I'm a young, female, college student. Lauren Burk (below left), a freshman at Aubrun University, was found with a gunshot wound on the side of a highwaynear the school's campus. Eve Carson (below right), the 22-year-old student body president at UNC-Chapel Hill, was found on campus shot several times in the early morning hours. 
And now Brittany Zimmerman (below) a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She was 21 years old and ready to graduate next fall with hopes of going on to medical school. She was found dead in her (and her boyfriend's) apartment on Wednesday, April 2. 
All of these girls had such bright futures and nobody could have predicted any of this. So my question is, why aren't the schools doing anything about this issue? What all of these cases have in common is that all girls were alone at the time. Campuses need to STRESS the importance of utilizing the security systems that they have in place, to avoid instances exactly like these. I can recall so many times that I've walked back to my dorm, alone and in the dark. I've just always thought that the campus was "safe." But now I dont know what to think. Obviously nobody can predict when a murder will strike or when a crime will occur. But the fact of the matter is, we can take preventative measures and its foolish not to. Young women cannot go around thinking that, "Oh that would never happen to me." But now it's hitting a little too close to home, not because of the fact that I fit the profile of so many of these girls, but because I actually have friends on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. And, because schools like UNC-Chapel Hill are not that far away from our Liberty University "bubble", as so many students like to call it. But that's the problem. We get so caught up in this "bubble" thinking that no one can harm us in this environment. The fact of the matter is, that we have to be just as aware as any other college campus in the country. |
