Toronto Star
Toronto Star
by Kent Edward Baxter
Originally Written: 16 January 2004
Cowardly not to return to college
Re: I fear for my safety (Letter, 14 January)
Sir,
I am a graduate of Centennial College who is rather
surprised by April Mantle's sensationalistic and rather hysterical claim
of a "high crime rate" at the Progress Campus, which I had the pride and
privlege of attending for more than three years, and to which I return from
time to time.
During my time as a student at Centennial there were relatively
few crimes committed, most of which were relatively minor and often of a nuisance
nature, such as false fire alarms.
Sure, there will be crimes committed anywhere and anytime. To refuse
to college because a non-student was killed in a car that happened to be
parked on the campus property is both an act of cowardice and highly irresponsible.
To restrice visitors' access to a college campus (which is what Mantle advocates)
because of one's irrational fear is to allow major criminals satisfaction.
K. Edward Baxter, Toronto