Last Friday, January 15, an unidentified shooter shot a Drexel student hoping to go see a movie with friends at The Bridge. The shooter was attempting to rob the popular West Philadelphia movie theatre’s cash drawer. He made it away with an unknown amount of money and is still on the loose. The Drexel student suffered a shot to the femur when he got in the crossfire between the man and an off duty cop.
My issue really isn’t about the safety here—it’s Philadelphia, actually, it’s ANY city. People will get shot. However, I expected an email from Drexel Police about the incident, which has yet to come. In addition, a lot of students don’t even know it happened. Then when I told them, I was more stunned to find out they did not really care. Since it didn’t happen on Drexel’s campus, apparently they didn’t care that a student was shot.
Well, my questions to them are: Did you care when the kids at Columbine were shot? What about Virginia Tech? Because as fellow students, we should all at least care. Whether it be big or small, whether the injuries were severe or minor, students should always support other students.
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January 15th…seriously? It’s weird that we haven’t received an email from Public Safety and I think it’s even more inconsiderate that a handful of Drexel students don’t care one bit about their classmate’s almost-fatal injury.
It should be noted though that Columbine and Virginia Tech were both really publicized…to the extent that both received mass media coverage for days. Maybe, this apathy that you sensed was due to the lack of attention? Perhaps, if it had been publically made known, then more people would know and hence, more people would care. Unfortunately, I guess that such an occurrence first requires media frenzy in order to evoke any sort of empathy/sympathy from most people.