This week Attorney General Holder announced that one of the chief masterminds of the Sept. 11 attacks will be tried in the federal courts in Manhattan, only a few blocks away from the destroyed World Trade Center. This announcement spurred a debate in the political and judicial arenas.
After last week's Wire front-page article on gender-neutral rooming at Wheaton, we, the authors of the Proposal to Allow Gender-Neutral Rooming, felt it was important to publicly clarify several facts. We would also like to take this opportunity to give the campus community a little bit more insight into why we believe gender-neutral rooming is an important option for students to have.
To the Wheaton community: I was recently involved in an incident where I endangered the safety of my peers. At the time I felt I was doing something fun or entertaining but in reality it was a poorly thought out stunt that could have resulted in serious injury.