<p>That students can occasionally be stupid, these two definitely were, and I have to acknowledge the fact that my fellow college students occasionally do incredibly dumb things. Obviously this was offensive to many people who saw it, and I think is was in incredibly bad taste. I just wish that more stories hit the news about college students doing good things, rather than idiotic things like this. Yikes.</p>
<p>Another good reason to THINK about what you post on facebook. It will be found…</p>
<p>I think what it boils down to is that these two have not been affected by the tragedy of someone dying too young. A student from my school died a few weeks ago, and of course there was grief. There will probably be grief for some time to come, among those who were close to the student, and even among those who weren’t necessarily close, but knew the student by reputation. I realize that there are thousands of deaths in America every day, that doesn’t make one death less tragic when it happens in the context of your own life.
I’m quite offended by the idea of the costumes because it does make light of the situation. It’s like when some extreme churches made hell houses that included footage from Columbine security cameras; it’s in poor taste and extremely disrespectful to victims and those in mourning for them. I must say that if expressing human emotion in the midst of tragedy is part of a trend it’s one of the very few that I’m all for, the death of a friend is something to be upset about for various reasons most of them personal for each student. If someone told me to stop crying over a friend’s death because all that is is a trend I would not only be offended but stunned.</p>
<p>The student that they interviewed was just an embarrassment to the entire human race. In a few years with any luck he will see this, hear himself and issue an apology.</p>