What is relevant is that while it didn't happen to me, it happened to her. And it just as easily could have been me. We've all had moments when our judgement has temporarily lapsed. It is easy when we sit on rural, isolated campuses to believe that we truly do live in a bubble. But the sobering reality is that violence does happen here.
Rape happens here.
Assault happens here. And while it hasn't happened to most of us, it can. Tonight when I drove into the Angela parking lot, before I switched the key in the ignition, I picked up the illuminated phone. It would be another 10 minutes, I knew. It would be another 10 minutes, in the waning hours of night I would be without my precious sleep.