<p>It is NOT hard to find noteworthy news about USC that pertains to topics outside of football and donations. Every day I see numerous cool things on Facebook by following different groups (absolutely NO EFFORT on my part besides originally liking a page). </p>
<p>People on the USC page are generally parents, USC students/former students/prospective students and thus, will not respond positively to negative posts. What don’t you get about that? Sure you have a right to post what you want, but people have every right to respond any way they want to your posts as well.</p>
I don’t think beyphy is particularly cares about how they respond; he is just noting the big difference between USC and UCLA responses to negative posts and pointed out that on the UCLA board people don’t take negative posts so personally nor attack instinctively and defensively to criticism of their school. </p>
<p>I’m not saying the UCLA response is correct as apposed to the USC response because who am I to judge if calm responses are better than instinctive retaliatory ones? I’m just saying (and so is beyphy) there is a very large difference between the reaction of USC students to bad news and UCLA students to bad news pertaining to their respective schools.</p>
<p>^Yes, that’s exactly what I meant with my last message. It is messenger specific to UCLA students. That was mainly the reason why I had a gripe with it.</p>
<p>So, as a renter or homeowner, it’s not your responsibility to know who is coming in and out of your residence? Really? You have a lot to learn.</p>
<p>I would NEVER blame a victim, but I was pointing out that, no matter where you live, if there’s someone in your house that you or your fellow guests don’t know, you ARE inviting trouble! A friend your neighbor brings along, fine; an acquaintance’s significant other, fine; etc etc etc. I never said anything about keeping new people out of your life — but there’s a difference between a person whom someone you trust knows and a total random person off the street because you have someone that’s accountable for the “new person’s” actions. </p>
<p>And you know what? People in ALL PARTS of Los Angeles can and WILL bring guns or other weapons to random places (not just low income neighborhoods!) and will use them in the most unexpected ways. I live in a pretty gentrified neighborhood with mostly young families and “hipster” types. A pizza delivery man was shot point blank in the head a few weeks ago down the street in a road rage incident. ROAD RAGE! Ronnie Chasen is another good example of this — you can’t be too careful in a big city with people you or someone you know is unfamiliar with. It’s not blaming, it’s not being closed-minded, it’s common sense. Just like you wouldn’t get into a car with a stranger as a kid, you don’t let “strangers” into your home!</p>
<p>You let a bunch of people off the street into your home, g0ld3n, and let me know how that turns out for you.</p>
<p>I think you missed the word “only” in my previous post. I wasn’t asking if uninvited guests bring trouble, I’m not disputing that, I’m saying trouble can happen at any time any where like you yourself said, and I was pointing out it could be with strangers or acquaintances alike. The only real difference is that the area surrounding USC’s immediate campus tends to have more trouble than the average college - that’s all. </p>
<p>I wasn’t disputing whether or not strangers in your home is a bad idea, it certainly is in my opinion as well.</p>
<p>Going back to earlier statements, this is not an area where only married, international or grad students live; my son is an undergraduate and lives very close by with a houseful of undergrads and other undergrads live all around them. It is just as much a part of the USC area as any and living there does not mean you deserve problems. I’ve grown tired over the last couple of years of the way people characterize neighborhoods that are home to LA residents who work for a living and students who don’t have the money to live in upscale apartments or houses. If you’re uncomfortable with a city and its residents go to school in rural Ohio.</p>
<p>That said, my son thankfully was asleep when this happened and was not at the party. I am not worried about this neighborhood more than any others around USC. Simply avoiding living west will not eliminate your security problems. This is an urban area all around and you have to be smart all the time about how you act and what venues you frequent. My son had a bike stolen from a locked garage under a USC-owned apartment building so just living in university housing guarantees nothing.</p>
<p>It is messenger specific to someone who say things negative things and then when someone responds to his posts negatively, can’t take it. Dishes it out and then say things like “what they need to do is grow up and realize that sometimes in life you’re going to have to deal with people you don’t like”. </p>
<p>Again, we don’t have to agree with you or your opinions.</p>