Homeless student banned from campus
Taylor Bendig
Issue date: 3/4/08 Section: News
"He would [generally] be looking pretty rough. That kind of affected the way people viewed him and talked to him."
Both he and McBride, however, felt that Wilkinson's ban from campus was inappropriate.
Though he acknowledges that having someone repeatedly sleeping around campus is unacceptable, McBride said that he thought the university's action was unnecessary.
"He was a student here, and he did good, until life treated him like shit, and then he had nowhere else to go."
A fellow student agreed. He said that the night he was banned he had spent most of the time talking excitedly about the new apartment he was moving into the next day.
"If there was one more day of understanding, then he wouldn't have had to stumble home to nowhere in the middle of the night. He could've had a warm place to stay before he got his apartment," he said.
In cases such as Wilkinson's, he added, "a more positive response would be to look into a shelter or something for this person, find out if there's anything they can do to help ... and then send them on their way."
McBride said that since his ban, Wilkinson has settled into a new apartment and taken on a new job.
Both he and McBride, however, felt that Wilkinson's ban from campus was inappropriate.
Though he acknowledges that having someone repeatedly sleeping around campus is unacceptable, McBride said that he thought the university's action was unnecessary.
"He was a student here, and he did good, until life treated him like shit, and then he had nowhere else to go."
A fellow student agreed. He said that the night he was banned he had spent most of the time talking excitedly about the new apartment he was moving into the next day.
"If there was one more day of understanding, then he wouldn't have had to stumble home to nowhere in the middle of the night. He could've had a warm place to stay before he got his apartment," he said.
In cases such as Wilkinson's, he added, "a more positive response would be to look into a shelter or something for this person, find out if there's anything they can do to help ... and then send them on their way."
McBride said that since his ban, Wilkinson has settled into a new apartment and taken on a new job.
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