Why protest crime?
I would like to thank Brian Rosenthal for his remarkably eye-opening report on Evanston residents' courageous crusade to end crime in their city ("Fighting crime in Evanston," April 8).
Before I read Rosenthal's article, I was ignorantly under the impression that victims of crimes have no objections to criminals' actions. However, as Michelle Oxman so shrewdly points out, Evanston residents are in fact "not OK" with drug-related crime, a profound observation of which "people stealing and selling drugs" are obviously unaware and definitely "need to know."
I enthusiastically support the 15 south Evanston and Chicago residents who have pulled this little-known dislike of crime into the public eye through their heroic march against law-breakers who previously had no idea that law-abiding citizens actually had a problem with such activities as dealing drugs.
Now that criminals understand how much their illegal behavior really bugs their neighbors, they will surely stop engaging in acts they innocently assumed were OK with everyone.
- Natalie Friend
Weinberg freshman
Dating scene not dead
Something happened to me today that has never happened in my almost four years at Northwestern. A random guy who had been sitting next me at Norris got up and asked me if he could take me out to dinner. Dinner! Not a pre-game, frat party, Hundo or the Keg. I mean, guys have asked me out to dinner before - in Miami, downtown Chicago, Paris -but never in Evanston.
NU women have become accustomed to the fact that the only invitations they will most likely receive will come from an intoxicated guy at The Keg, and it usually will not be an invitation to dinner. It is highly publicized from the Princeton Review to simple word of mouth that the dating scene at NU is non-existent. People grow to embrace that.
This guy defied the odds and had the courage to go up to a girl he knew nothing about (what if he was a freshman?!). Since I'm in a relationship, an acceptance to dinner was clearly not kosher, but this guy must have known that rejection was a possibility. More power to him.
2008 Woodie Awards
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