Wesleyan shows caution

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Subject: Emergency Security Update
From: "Public Safety"
Date: Thu, May 7, 2009 6:21 am
To: "Wesleyan Community"
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The suspect in yesterday�s fatal shooting has not been apprehended. Based on the advice of local authorities, Wesleyan instructs all students to remain in their residences. Faculty and staff should not come to their offices unless otherwise instructed. We will be sending information soon in regard to food and other administrative services.

Please remain cautious. The police investigation continues, and we remain in contact with them about all developments. We will send information via the usual channels as it becomes available.
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The above was sent to the Wesleyan Community this morning.

Those keg cups again

We have relatively few readers in the student population at Wesleyan University, but I'm guessing that a few of that enlightened body might take a simple message to a wider audience.

Exactly what are you thinking when you open your hand and drop your plastic beer cup where you happen to be standing, and where someone else will have to pick it up? Obviously not thinking. Perhaps inebriated. As I've said in this space before, at least at Wesleyan someone else will pick it up, just like your mom picked up after you at home. But why should someone need to be dispatched to clean-up your garbage?

This is a simple matter, and in no way has a great effect on the world, but the utter disregard for community, and for those who have to clean up after you, is in some ways emblematic of the way you look at the world.

Saturday night there was a party on my street (PSafe and MPD broke up the party which had spilled from an apartment and into the street, and apparently at least one party-goer was arrested, though MPD refused to release details about who was arrested, and on what charge). Sunday morning the street was strewn with blue and red cups, and empty amber Bud bottles and tallboy cans.

The mess will likely be gone tomorrow, though Pearl Street gets less attention than do streets closer to campus, but the impression remains that some Wes students can talk a great game about the environment until it comes time to find an appropriate receptacle for their waste.