Free Write

It was a just a normal Saturday night and my friend and I were coming home when we saw two police cars on the campus and a bunch of kids standing outside their dorms. I had no idea why they were there and I just assumed someone probably was in trouble for alcohol. Before walking into our dorm we saw some girls from our floor lying on the grass, so we went and sat with them. They began to tell me how peer assistants were asking people to close their blinds in their room (that’s why my roommate was keeping our blinds closed) because a man supposedly on campus was looking in people’s windows. I thought I had heard something about this rumor before. Next thing I know is some boys are walking by us and tell us there has been a murder on campus and we better watch out. Then I remembered how a girl from my soccer team that day said people were texting her from University of Nebraska Lincoln asking about a murder on campus. The girls begin to elaborate on the story of how a man had killed a girl form University of Nebraska Lincoln and had not been convicted because of a technicality. And another rumor was a man killed another man and hung him from a tree. The next day an e-mail was sent out from the school stating there had been a suspicious person on campus and to avoid walking around campus at night alone. I could not help but be bothered by this. An email was sent out today saying that after having the Lincoln Police Department investigate the rumor, it was just that a, rumor. They said that it had no substance to the investigation and apologized for any concern it has caused.