The article stated that University police are investigating an alleged rape involving two University students and that both parties received medical treatment after the incident. These details are confusing and do little to educate students about rape on campus. As the director of Territorial Hall and someone who spent countless hours handling this situation in the hall and in the hospital, I do not appreciate trivial details of such an incident being printed, especially when they are confusing. It's important that information, whether it comes from a police report or from talking to people involved, is clearly stated in such a serious incident as this. Although I do believe incidents of rape on campus should be covered by the Daily, I would also like to see stories that explore the issues of prevention and counseling, healthy relationships or things of that sort which may prevent events like this from happening.
Rape can drastically change a woman's life for the worse in just a few minutes.
I was quite alarmed after reading news reports last week. Our current state house representative in district 59B, Phyllis Kahn, has outdone herself this time. She has proposed a bill to ban smoking in bars in Minnesota by 1999. Her bill would tell private property owners what they can and cannot allow people to do on their own property. Although I am an occasional smoker, I am not simply defending smoking.