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TO THE EDITOR:
After bearing witness to the-game-that-shall-not-be-named Wednesday night, the last thing I wanted to hear was more bad news. However, bad news was what I needed — and had a right — to hear, but not what I received until well after events transpired, and never from the source from which I expected to hear it.

Early Thursday morning, a woman was raped behind the Ackland Art Museum. The Herald-Sun reported the incident the next day, and The Daily Tar Heel reported it late Friday afternoon. The University itself, though, never sent out formal notice of the incident despite it having taken place, at least in part, on campus.

I am appalled by the lack of communication regarding a distinct threat to the safety of the student body. I do not expect emails or texts from Alert Carolina at 4 a.m. However, knowing that the University had a chance to let us know about threats in the area and chose not to, when the community had already been privy to information for well over a day, makes me think poorly of the safety mechanisms we have in place. It is the University’s responsibility to keep its students in the best position to keep themselves safe, and it failed miserably here.

If nothing else, I have learned that I can depend on local news sources to be vigilant, and cannot so readily depend upon the University to do the same.

Hannah Weinberger ’13
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