Slow on the uptake
Sep. 13th, 2004 06:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vernardSo I'm sitting here in my office at GA Tech waiting on my workout partner to make it in for our regularly scheduled 7am workout (its 6:35am). I decide to read the local campus newspaper, the Technique for those of you that have never heard of it. And on the front page in the lead position is the an article entitled "Tech self-reports NCAA violations". I'm thinking, well at least we had the integrity to rat ourselves out. The next article below that was "Five thousanda turn out for Six Flags". Its nice to know that a university so hell bent on turning out the best engineers and scientists that the world will ever see can still take some time to offer cheap tickets to one of the worst theme parks in the country. *sigh* So I start scanning the rest of the page to see the little article that invariably make it there but are of little or no consequence.
That's when it hits me: "Clough: tuition may have to rise" and "Student commits suicide in Brown".
I literally shuddered. "Student commits suicide in Brown" . The entire article itself is 2 inches. Two fucking inches .
I did some digging and there was a post about it in the![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
georgiatech here
Its just sickens me that something as significant as a student losing their life on campus (mind you, she was a freshman and had only been at GA Tech a month ) would get such a cursory mention. I guess its better than it being buried on page 12 or some such but it still feels wrong. Oh don't get me wrong, I know the standard reasons why you do it. Protection of privacy for the student and her family, lack of solid facts at the time of the story publication, etc. But it still feels so insignificant. And I can't help but think that the size of the article represents the amount of concern that Tech has. Its just an article. Its just a newspaper. Its just a brief nod
But it was also a life. And its gone. I didn't know here at all but I still feel diminished by her death.
Elesha Spencer died Wednesday evening at around 6pm from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Rest in peace.
That's when it hits me: "Clough: tuition may have to rise" and "Student commits suicide in Brown".
I literally shuddered. "Student commits suicide in Brown" . The entire article itself is 2 inches. Two fucking inches .
I did some digging and there was a post about it in the
georgiatech here Its just sickens me that something as significant as a student losing their life on campus (mind you, she was a freshman and had only been at GA Tech a month ) would get such a cursory mention. I guess its better than it being buried on page 12 or some such but it still feels wrong. Oh don't get me wrong, I know the standard reasons why you do it. Protection of privacy for the student and her family, lack of solid facts at the time of the story publication, etc. But it still feels so insignificant. And I can't help but think that the size of the article represents the amount of concern that Tech has. Its just an article. Its just a newspaper. Its just a brief nod
But it was also a life. And its gone. I didn't know here at all but I still feel diminished by her death.
Elesha Spencer died Wednesday evening at around 6pm from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Rest in peace.
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Date: 2004-09-13 12:42 pm (UTC)Well, I didn't have to take PSY1010 NOR GSU's class, but I do know that GSU's class was more focused on getting to know the campus, what was available, how to get help, etc.
Now, I guess I am comparing apples to oranges since GSU <> GT, but I think every 18 to 19 yr old has he same concerns when they leave home for the first time.