Here's something that Jess and I were talking about last night. Back in the day, it was common at NU for guys to walk girls home at night. AACM/IV guys would walk girls home at night, whether they were at Norris studying, hanging out at the library or chillin' in some dorm. Why? Not because girls are helpless, or because these guys and girls were rejecting feminist notions of indendence and self sufficiency, but because it was a nice thing to do. Apparantely, other guys would give even guys a hard time if they didn't walk the girls home. This kind of happened when I was in college, dying down more and more by my senior year. So now we hear about all these muggings/attacks on or near NU campus, and I'm wondering whether or not this has started up again. Do guys think about walking girls home night, even when it's late or inconvenient? Do girls bother to ask? Personally, I am a big proponent of getting walked home, cause honestly, girls get bothered by sketchy guys a lot, but they get bothered a lot less when there's a guy with them. So calling all NU brother-- walk the sisters home! Seriously. I don't want my sister walking home alone at night. Neither should you.

Enough on that. I hear the anti-hate rally went well. That's good. I hope the Asian-American students at Northwestern are sticking their heads out of their insular little shells and realizing that hate crimes affect everyone. If you don't care about this type of thing happening to the students around you, no one will care when an Asian-American student is attacked/vandalized/victimized because of their race. Fight hate, people. It's the only option.