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Al-Thobaiti 3

Saad Al-Thobaiti

Sheyene Heller

ENGL 1206

04- 18-2014

To: County Daily Monitor,

Dear Editor,

Insecurity in Arizona county technical schools is on the increase! Students are been exposed to all sorts of robbery while in school, on their way home or to school for the non- borders .This is happening late in the night and the wee hours of the morning. Students are losing their property especially electronic devices under mysterious circumstances. Hardly a day goes by without a case being reported to the housekeeper’s desk about a laptop, a camera, a mobile phone or a walker as having been lost.

Bartholomew’s Technical School is hard hit. I have a brother who studies there. Sometimes I sleep over. But the theft cases there-in have raised my eyebrows. On the evening of March 27th, we sauntered in to males’ hostel from a birth day party of my brother’s classmate. Everybody was sober. We had left our laptops in my brother’s cubicle but to our utter surprise, 2 laptops plus a play station had been looted. Probably the mastermind had a master key. We reported this to the accommodation authorities but nothing significant has come out of it. It rather is a matter of the administrators of this school to fix the issue.

In the hostels, students have to ensure the windows are closed all the night. Unscrupulous fellows move along window balconies at night, even for the 3rd and 4th floors looking for any unclosed windows. Towards the close of summer semester, a series of theft cases were reported to have occurred through the windows at night. The academic thieves usually handpick your laptop and phone over the window while you are heavy asleep. Some students have even resulted to leaving the lights on all night to give the impression that they are awake to scare away any looming theft.

Sometimes alleged thieves are accused wrongfully. As happened in Machinery Academy, students flocked in to beating a 4th grade engineering student after allegations of having been found with a stolen laptop. They accosted and frog-matched him after awarding him a miserable beating. He today goes limping following the attacks he sustained that day. The situation has become dire compelling students to take law into their hands. This has left scores of innocent people suffering greatly, some even missing death by a whisker.

Girls are hard it in all of the mixed colleges. They dread walking home late in the night especially weekends. They have to arrive late for early morning classes and leave early for the late evening classes. This too proportionately affects their studying. They too have to walk in groups while going home, so one has to wait for one another. A lot of unnecessary time is wasted.

It is not known well the masterminds behind the series of the thieves and robbers happening in our colleges, but most probably it is a group of students within the colleges. This extends to having recruits from the surrounding shopping centers where students board and go to while away their time. Some theft is done by armed people, some exist as lone thieves while other are well fashioned cartels operated and governed by schemers far away.

This is a matter that is purely supposed to be handled by the schools’ administration, the local municipal council, area administration and lastly by the students. On their part, students try as much as possible to not letting their rooms exposed to the prying eyes of the public. They used expensive locks for their doors and try to walk home early and in groups for those who do not stay in school for their accommodation.

There should be CCTV cameras installed in all the streets leading to the schools, and within the corridors of the hostels. Flood lights should too be erected to illuminate the whole school compound and the streets of the shopping centers. Let the area administration deploy more night patrol police, both plain and in-uniform police. I believe the studying atmosphere for the students will be revived and made conducive.

Sincerely,

Saad Al-Thobaiti