WPU violence is kept silent

Editorial

As the noise increased outside Hunziker Wing, students from a Mass Comm class flocked to the window. They saw a group of people, no doubt students, involved in a verbal confrontation. Then, one of those involved in the argument took his fist and hit another student whose head literally bounced off a brick wall.

Another man was bleeding while sitting on the stairs outside of Ben Shahn; police chased suspects around the Science building. At least three men had attacked the lone male, pummelling him while he laid upon the ground.

These are just two of a number of incidents reported to the paper on that day, April 29, better known as “Music Fest.”

Until the campus police blotter becomes available to this paper, you probably will never know about these things and William Paterson will continue to keep their violent crime numbers down.

And how about the senior who became verbally abusive on a bus returning from the senior cruise? Witnesses said the bus stopped, police arrived, and she was given a disorderly conduct summons.

Then there was also a report that a woman was beaten-up by someone weilding a cell phone. WPU police were called.

How many students were arrested or stopped by police for some incident in the past week alone? We’d like to know... and so would others who think William Paterson isn’t the peaceful, hilltop university the administrators would like us all to think.

May 8 , 2003 Issue