Regarding "White student calls police on black peer who fell asleep in dorm common room" (Friday Front Page), there was something very familiar about this story, going back to my college days. It wasn't until near the end before my suspicions were confirmed, when I read that the black student - Lolade Siyonbola - admitted that she "had flipped off the lights and went to sleep".
In other words, she turned a common room into her personal bedroom, depriving other students of it's use. Untold in the article is how many times Ms. Siyonbola had committed this offense in the past, but from the reaction of the white student, Sarah Braasch, it had happened before.
This was a common practice 35 years ago by students of all colors. It was rude then, it's rude now, and Ms. Siyonbola is no victim.
Pete Smith
Cypress, TX
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