Listen, can you hear it, it’s the dying moans of another semester. The summer is here, the magical time when college kids feel the urge to get butt naked, go to Tijuana and see a donkey show.
The bugs are getting bigger, and girls are now wearing short-shorts. Summer is definitely here, like a tanned super hero clad in board shorts, a pair of stunners while holding a lawn chair, which has come to save us from a frigid wet spring.
The peer pressure to do something crazy is also in the air and students are happy to oblige.
Our desensitized society relishes in acts of great stupidity and basks in the rays of indulgence. We often forget that danger is right around the corner.
It might sound cliché but Boris Albinder; a murdered Skyline student might have thought that as well. He was stabbed over a parking space dispute and died on a hospital bed.
Albinder was only looking forward to a night out and not the pearly gates.
Albinder’s death might have been avoided if he just stayed at home, or if he didn’t care for his fellow man being roughhoused for a parking space and just walked away. We can speculate all we want but he will never come back.
His death might seem trivial but danger was right around the corner from him and he paid with his life.
We are not saying that you should lock your self at home, curl up in a dark corner and piss your self in paranoia. All we are saying is that the world we live in is cruel and unusual and it will eventually kill you.
We do not enjoy writing obituaries on Skyline students, it is unnerving to sum up a persons life by their academic achievements and what other people say about them.
It is impossible to total lives in five hundred word articles. As writers we know how limiting the words are. The value of one’s life is inexplicable.
We urge you to be careful, keep safe, we know how valuable lives are and all we ask is for you to value it as well.