An Asian student who attends Georgia Tech was stabbed on his walk back to his campus residency on Williams Street. The victim had decided to take a shortcut along 8th Street where he said he was attacked by a black man who was sitting along the curb in a grassy area. Fortunately, the victim's wound(s) was not life threatening. This is not the first time that an accident like this has happened at this university let alone surrounding universities in the Greater Atlanta area.
Here is how FOX 5 reports it.
Sometimes, I wonder why such incidences don't happen at Emory University. Is it the location? or is it that the school has tight security as part of its priority to insure student and personnel safety while attending or providing education and training? -- which brings me back to what I had stated during my covering of the Amanda Knox case. In case you missed it, Amanda Knox has been convicted for the murder of her college room mate and sentenced to 26 years to life in an Italian prison.
I say that to say this......yet again -- no parent sends his child(ren) to a university/college to be accosted, to have his life endangered or to face an early demise at the hands of another. All higher learning institutions should make it paramount to have A-1 security on their premises at all time to protect the enrolled as much as their workforce. Stop looking at students as quota per semester by providing them with pipe dreams of academic grandeur to entice them into your programs while giving no regard to their well being.
They were both charged with murder and sexual violence in the November 2007 stabbing death of Meredith Kercher. Knox and Kercher, both studying abroad, were roommates. A third suspect, Rudy Guede (pic on left), was found guilty in a separate trial.
Prosecutors argued that Amanda Knox was 'a resentful American so angry with her British roommate that she exacted revenge during a twisted sex misadventure at their home' two years ago.
They said Knox directed Sollecito and the third suspect, who was infatuated with her, Guede, to hold Kercher while she played with a knife before slashing Kercher's throat....and yet Knox's parents audaciously place blame squarely on the backs of outside influences and yes, even the media. Take a look at the clip.
Word to parents everywhere, please stop placing your child(ren) on the 'my child(ren) would never do such a thing' pedestal. You have no idea of what your child(ren) are capable of doing let alone who they become when they dwell or roam out of your proximity for any reason. Your job is to provide the guidance, love support that to the best of your given abilities in the quest that they will be well rounded individuals as adult -- capable of making informed decisions inclusive and exclusive of peers who have the ability to make or break them in their potential. Who your child(ren) become independently of you is something that you have absolutely no control of. Whether they become productive citizens or menaces in society is something that may become out of your control to dictate. It really comes to the child(ren) in question in regards if they want to do good in life let alone commit acts of pure evil. So do not place blame on the media, let alone other people, when the negative that your child(ren) does gets sensationalized.
To all academic institutions, far, wide and nearby, rather than focus so much on students being your cash cows to generate revenues for your facilities, try engaging in being more proactive in security/survellience issues pertinent to your grounds. In addition, place emphasis on the educational benefits in choosing your institution of higher learning to curb some of the corruption that may or can take place amongst the enrolled because no one sends his child(ren) to schools of advanced learning to die.
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