Female student assaulted at 2 a.m. on north campus

“described as a white man” holly crap does that mean the SN is no longer concerned with being PC and are willing to actually consider the safety of the students when publishing a description of a suspect?
I never thought I would see the day the PC police stop running the SN.

The suspect is described as a white man between 20 and 25 years old. He is 5-foot-9, and weighs about 180 pounds, with brown eyes, reddish-brown hair and a beard.
Does this signal the end of the SN’s dangerous and self-imposed restriction against providing full suspect descriptions?
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(side note: I hope this isn’t yet another false report.)

This is pretty scary. Hopefully, it doesn’t turn out to be fake like other recent reports.

wow, SN actually posted some description. finally.
But I wonder if this is true or just another “look at me” stunt.

Well first of all, I am glad she’s okay. Second of all, I’m not so sure that SN has turned a new leaf, seeing as their report was written and posted some 20 minutes after I received a crime report from the campus police with the suspect’s description.

Honestly, wouldn’t it be better if it were false?

It’s PC to describe “a white male” but not PC to say “a black male”….

And my prediction is that this trend will continue. Perhaps this kind of thing wouldn’t happen if students were allowed to carry SOME means of protection (like pepper spray – not a gun or a taser). Of course the definition of “weapon” used by MSU is so broad that nobody really knows what it means. One of these days, a robbery victim who knows how to fight it going to beat an assailant into a bloody pulp.

Students aren’t allowed to carry pepper spray? That sucks.

Jason you made a whole lot of sense until that last sentence. GET A LIFE!!

Looks like the SN corrected their error and removed the complete description. Good thing, now another criminal can walk freely around campus without fear of being identified. Political Correctness wins again!!

Well Bill at least this thread survived to still give the description. Of course I wonder if Abby or the copy editor still has a job this morning.

The sad thing about that last sentence is that it’s true. And what I say about the MSU weapons policy absolutely is correct. Pull up the student handbook and read it yourself. It’s incredibly vague, and in my opinion, the vagueness is intentional. The fact is that nearly anything can be used as a “weapon” if you throw it hard enough (toasters, for instance). I certainly would not put it past MSU and local authorities to charge someone with possession of a dangerous and deadly toaster.

Responding to Jason, I was an RA a couple of years ago (AKA Mentor, or whatever ridiculous term they’re calling it now) and we had orientation with the campus PD at the beginning of the year. The campus PD told us that pepper spray “technically” qualifies as a weapon, but in the same breath encouraged females to carry it for self-defense.

We asked the officer whether or not that would hold up in court as an endorsement of carrying a weapon and he said “I don’t think the prosecutor would charge a woman for using pepper spray in self-defense”. While I agree with what he said, I have no idea why it is not clearly stated to the students that women absolutely should ALWAYS carry pepper spray.

Their journalistic integrity just keeps getting worse every year and THAT is saying something.

Amen to that K-Rock! Hooray for political correctness!

It’s no surprise that the obviously pro-crime State News would drop the race descriptor, but why in the hell would they drop “…man between 20 and 25 years old. He is 5-foot-9, and weighs about 180 pounds, with brown eyes, reddish-brown hair and a beard.”???

I suppose none of that information has any value at this point, since the suspect could have put on some stilts, ate 700 Big Macs, got colored contact lenses, dyed his hair and shaved off his beard since 2 AM. Blasted smart criminals.

What is with everyone being so quick to think this is false? Does it really sound that likely to everyone here that some woman thought it would be fun to go out at 2am, wait around for two men to come near by and then go running to them claiming someone held a knife to her? This of course assumes the 2 men where not close enough to see a man with the woman and running off, though it sounds rather likely that they did see that.

Erin,
No one has said they think it is a lie (except maybe lol, but their name is lol so…) People have said they hope it isn’t a false report because the fact is there already has been a false on-campus sexual assault report this semester. And crying wolf will increase skepticism, which could discourage true victims from coming forward. Settle down, these comments aren’t as sinister as you think.

Toni Robbins,
Yes, of course it would be better if the situation was false, but I hope the report is not false (for the reason stated above).