I got to thinking about the hip-hop festival held on my campus this past weekend, and I remembered the huge amount of people in attendance who are not my school's students. Now, when campus safety is at it's tightest because of a student being stabbed a few weeks ago, we are inviting random people to hang out? I know that the school wants to improve its appearance with urban and race relations, but seriously, was that the best way to do it?
Besides that, I attended the festival one night and it was really fun and I can't wait for next year's. I feel like the whole situation was a conundrum. Sometimes, I think that our school needs to drop this whole "one with the urban community" thing and close the campus. I mean, our city definitely needs improvement, but it shouldn't put our students in danger. Yesterday, though, I was appalled to hear that a girl got a ride to the other side of campus from a campus safety officer and told him, "Yeah, I'm really scared to walk around campus at night with all these black people around." Sheesh, when will people learn that someone's race doesn't make them unsafe? I mean, there have been a couple of muggings on campus this year perpetrated by black community members, but that is probably just representative of the fact that the community is composed of mainly minorities. Stick any private open college in an impoverished city and you're just asking for trouble. Oh well.
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