LotusPawprint
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I'm just getting caught up here and it will take me a while so bear with me.
The twitter is interesting... and heartbreaking. She talks about her dorm floor and her room a few times. She sounds excited about things she's doing and things to come. :-/
Seems like LE has been very tight lipped about everything but I'm thinking in this kind of case they'll need to keep it that way. College and dorm situations can be toxic, groups and secrets can be powerful and if LE doesn't play their hand the right way they'll just handicap themselves.
During my freshmen year of college I was placed in a 10-person suite, it was misery. Four bedrooms, two bathrooms, a tiny study and a hallway. There were no boundaries, but plenty of music, guests, guys, parties, drinking, drugs, chaos, fights, etc. I tried to grit my teeth and hang in there but things didn't go well for me. The other girls would be damned if I was going to ruin their fun and the school made it difficult for me to get out of the situation. It was really a mess. I ended up moving out of the dorm within a couple of months, but things were not easy. I also ended up transferring schools after freshmen year.
I'll have to take a look at the dorm Jasmine was living in, but I would be surprised if it didn't have security cameras. I'd imagine this is standard now -- lobbies for sure and perhaps each floor and/or in elevators. Also they may have regular keys or they may have swipe cards to get into the building - I was in school a while ago, but not so long ago and when it fit the colleges' agenda, they could pull up the records. It would certainly help if more students had gone home for the holiday.
It's absurd, you go away to college and that's your home. You should feel safe and you should be safe. The colleges have to start taking more action before some of these things happen and certainly have better reactions when these travesties do happen.
So sorry sweet girl, you deserved so much more than this.
The twitter is interesting... and heartbreaking. She talks about her dorm floor and her room a few times. She sounds excited about things she's doing and things to come. :-/
Seems like LE has been very tight lipped about everything but I'm thinking in this kind of case they'll need to keep it that way. College and dorm situations can be toxic, groups and secrets can be powerful and if LE doesn't play their hand the right way they'll just handicap themselves.
During my freshmen year of college I was placed in a 10-person suite, it was misery. Four bedrooms, two bathrooms, a tiny study and a hallway. There were no boundaries, but plenty of music, guests, guys, parties, drinking, drugs, chaos, fights, etc. I tried to grit my teeth and hang in there but things didn't go well for me. The other girls would be damned if I was going to ruin their fun and the school made it difficult for me to get out of the situation. It was really a mess. I ended up moving out of the dorm within a couple of months, but things were not easy. I also ended up transferring schools after freshmen year.
I'll have to take a look at the dorm Jasmine was living in, but I would be surprised if it didn't have security cameras. I'd imagine this is standard now -- lobbies for sure and perhaps each floor and/or in elevators. Also they may have regular keys or they may have swipe cards to get into the building - I was in school a while ago, but not so long ago and when it fit the colleges' agenda, they could pull up the records. It would certainly help if more students had gone home for the holiday.
It's absurd, you go away to college and that's your home. You should feel safe and you should be safe. The colleges have to start taking more action before some of these things happen and certainly have better reactions when these travesties do happen.
So sorry sweet girl, you deserved so much more than this.
