Rant Time: I just heard this news last night. I'm sure the news will get bigger as more details hits the airways. But I'm furious and sickened to know that high school students on a college campus tour will take the time to break away from the tour group, go into the dorm rooms at Fir Grove building at De Neve and assault a girl studying her finals!!! What the ??!!! The three teenagers are ages 16, 16, and 17. The three students are from Carson High School. The tour was part of a school program Carson has to encourage their students to attend college someday. So what about the poor girl who's already in college?? What's wrong with this picture?

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High school wants to encourage students to attend college. Three teenage boys go on the tour, they think it would be fun to rape a college girl, then they leave. A week later, they are caught for the crime. Meanwhile the entire system is shook up. The cool open-door policy of the UCLA dorms are gone. I'm sure Carson High is totally embarrassed that THREE of their students did this. What's wrong with the world??

I'm furious over this whole thing because I LOVED the open-door policy of the UCLA dorms. I've met so many wonderful people in the dorms because of it. It was a safe and fun environment. I felt safer having my door opened than closed. The only time we ever closed our doors was when we went to sleep, and the only reason we did that was because we didn't want to be disturbed while we slept. All dorms are co-ed. That meant my neighbors (to my both left and right) were all guys. And the guys’ neighbors were all girls. So it was a great environment to meet people (great way to check out the guys without having to actually step into their rooms). I met my soon-to-be-hubby thanks to the open door policy.

The open door policy once saved my life. Right before Winter Break, I had this great idea to flip the mattress on my bed. The stupid part of the idea was I had the top bunk. So I was trying to flip a 75 pound mattress on my own while my roommates were taking finals. Half way through the process the mattress started slipping off my bed and I couldn't push it back up. My fate - either let the mattress crush me or let it fall all over my roommate's nice clean desk. Either way I'd be "dead". So I started screaming for help. My neighbors heard me - had a good laugh watching me hold up the 75 pound mattress with both arms and my head - then came to my rescue. It only took one of my buff male neighbors to rescue me, the other two continued laughing.

Now if my door was closed, then I would have been left to my fate. Thank goodness my neighbors and I observed the open-door policy.

But due to the moronic acts of those three teenagers, things will surely be different. Social life in the dorms will be so different. Perhaps things will return to normal one day, but now dorm life at UCLA has become tainted.

Now - why hasn't something like this happened earlier?? It's because no guy from UCLA would attempt a stupid crime like rape in a dorm room!! Why? Because he'll NEVER get away with it. News travel faster than lightening in the dorm rooms. It takes only a few minutes for the people on the same floor to hear of the news. Takes a few hours for the entire dorm complex to find out. By dinner time, the entire UCLA residential halls will know. Within a week the entire world will know. Bottom line- no one is dumb enough to try it because they will always be caught.

But obviously those three teenagers thought they were smarter and could get away with it. Hmmm perhaps they've had experience of assaulting girls in the past?? So they decide to assault a girl in the dorms to see if they can get away from this one too?? That's just my theory, but anyways, I'm just so mad that they even tried. Morons.

Anyways, I'm sure everyone has their own opinions of this matter, but since this is my blog, I'm writing my opinion.

My deepest condolences to the girl (who's probably a freshman) to have suffered this fate. Coming from someone who lived in A1 Canyon Point (also a dorm without a check-in counter) it could have easily have happened to me, my roommates, or any of our female friends and neighbors. I feel so bad that it had to have happened at all. I hope the boys will be tried as adults in this case. Why as adults?? Because I want the justice system to send a loud and clear message to all teenage boys that they can’t get away with it.

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Please take note that the words I posted are only of the dormatory. I did not say anything about frats and the apartments. I know that sexual assault happens on all college campuses, UCLA is no exception ... especially in the apartments and frats houses. It's always been part of orientation that sexual assault can happen anywhere, at anytime. There's also a panel of women who speaks to incoming freshmens to warn them about the dangers of being sexually assaulted in college.

But when it comes to the dorms, it's always been relatively safe, until now. Also what I mean by safe, is that it's safe from strangers (strangers = people who are NOT supposed to be in the dorms, which also includes UCLA students who live off-campus). I remember sophomore year that there have been attempts of sexual assaults by a stranger, but nothing happened and the man was eventually apprehended. This case, however, is the first in many many years (if not the first case), where a guy was actually successful in a sexual assault in the dorms at UCLA.

Now I don't want people to think that I believe that UCLA students are better in any way. All college students are human and all humans make mistakes. However, I've always remembered from past alumni and from my own personal experience that there has always been an open door policy in the UCLA dorms. The only reason an open door policy can exist is because we all feel safe. If the fear of sexual assaults were a part of every day life, then there would be no open door policy. Considering I live in an apartment now, I would NEVER leave my door open now. But in the dorms, it was ok. I'm sure many other students from other college dorms would agree with this.

So please do not get the wrong idea that I think UCLA students are better than other college students in any way. Although I do have pride in my alma malter, I would never think that ... well maybe we're better than USC students =P

Posted by Gemelle @ 12/19/2002 09:45 AM PST

While I agree with the comment by the former A1 resident that those students from Carson high are messed up, you should be aware that many UCLA students have been accused and some convicted of sexual assault. UCLA males (and females) are not better than others. There are sexual assaults all the time in the dorms, the frats, and the apartments. Open your eyes. UCLA is a beautiful campus, but fucked up shit happens there (and at all other college campuses) all around the country. 1 in 4 women are sexually assaulted in their lifetime and most of them are done by people who know them. Check the stats. Rape is pretty damn common.

Posted by Saddened @ 12/18/2002 08:40 PM PST

I don't like the thought of this, but all I can say is... ouch..

Posted by unknown? @ 12/14/2002 03:12 PM PST

my god man, those guys are fuck*ng messed up, wis they go to hell, man what the hell were they thinking, i am feeling so sorry for the girl, my god thos guys are bastards,

Posted by Rapehaters @ 12/14/2002 02:59 PM PST