Free Write

This weekend has been filled with all kinds of exciting events. Saturday night as I was waiting for a friend, I got a knock at that door. It was a Peer assistant on duty telling every room that they were to close the blinds to their rooms because a man that was not suppose to be on campus had been walking around, but not to worry because he was not looking in the windows at us. That is when the rumors began to fly. When I was coming home that night, some girls from my floor and the floor beneath me were laying on the lawn in front of the student center and waved me over, as we sat and talked some guys came by and yelled at us for being outside and said there was a murderer on the loose. The story had gotten so misconstrued that people were saying the guy had killed another guy on our campus about five years ago and that he had cut off the guys limbs and hung him from a tree. Then I heard a story that he had killed a girl from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln five years ago and had gotten away with it because of a technicality. I also heard that he had just walked up to a guy downtown on Tenth street and started to stab him. Then there was an email sent out from the school stating that there had been a "suspicious person," on campus and that we were to avoid walking around the campus alone and to be careful of our surroundings. There were cops and security everywhere you looked on that day. And, just as was suspected all of this was a rumor. An email was sent out saying that after having the Lincoln Police Department investigate this situation, it was just a rumor and that it had no substance to this investigation and apologizing for causing any concern.