The situation that occurred March 9, involving the three non-students on campus harassing students in a classroom, is no doubt troubling.
Matt Pettit has done a great job of alerting his fellow students to what happened in his letter to the editor at right, and we thank him for it.
We wanted to ask you what you thought of the situation, and whether you think an AU Alert would have been an appropriate step.
Our attitude here is that we would have appreciated an e-mail from the school with the amount of detail Pettit provided in his account.
It is a shame we had to hear of this situation from a fellow student before it was addressed by the University.
A heads-up via AU Alert and an order to leave campus would have been ideal, but an e-mail to students acknowledging the situation even happened at all would have been sufficient.
It would have looked better to admit something happened than to shrug it off as no big deal, because to the students in that classroom, it was a big deal.
Students, do you think this was handled well?
If not, what would you have liked to have seen from the University?
And if we are blowing this out of proportion, just let us know.
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