http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,568547,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a4:g4:r4:c0.000000:b0:z5
Apparently after their game which they won there was a school sponsored dance and party going on in the student center, from what the story said an alarm went off and the students were forced to evacuate the building, i guess during the evacuation the altercation broke out resulting in the death of sophomore cornerback Jasper Howard and the wounding of Brian Parker.
My only issue with the story is that there was not much at all about the details of the altercation, even teammates who witnessed it and were by Howard's side when he died seemed to say nothing about who or what started the fight, who was involved (obviously the attacker had to be strong to overpower and stab a D-I football player) but there was nothing.
However, this is a very serious subject and this incident should not be taken lightly. UConn is not considered a dangerous school, in fact Howard evidently went there to escape the violence of Miami. it just goes to show you that no place is really any more safe than another, not that we should be paranoid, but simply more aware.
First, I'm so old that I don't know what "fml" means. :(
ReplyDeleteAlthough you consistently pick sports-oriented stories, I like that you are finding something of social importance in each of them. I agree that crime can happen anywhere, but I also wonder about the rate of crime on college campuses. Universities are either located directly in the center of a downtown area (which usually brings with it crime) or extremely removed from populated areas (like CSUSB). Sometimes the insular nature of the remote campuses also encourages crimes (there is no strong police presence, people often walk alone, there are fewer witnesses, and there are not many legal distractions). If murder can occur in a Yale building, mass murder at Virginia Tech, and sexual assaults on almost every campus, then does this say something about college campuses? Or about society in general?