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This letter is about a community member of ours’ abuse of a dangerous drug.
Last Friday night, I tried to attend the One Love Dance in Sycamore Glen. When I got there, I had lost my I.D. and so tried to go as the guest of a friend. Kenna Cottrill, who was in charge of making sure people had their I.D.s at the dance, told me I couldn’t be a guest because she somehow knew I was a student. So I thanked her for acknowledging that I am a student even though I didn’t have an I.D. to prove it and turned my attention towards entering the dance. Unfortunately for attendees including myself, she was under the influence of a far more destructive drug than my harmless alcohol-induced state of inebriation. This widely abused drug, with inebriating, hallucinogenic, and stimulant properties, is rarely talked about here at Oxy. Although most drugs are used for recreational purposes and have relatively few incidental victims outside their users, abuse of this drug victimizes everyone in the user’s path. Most of us, as students have been victimized by the abuse of this drug at one time or another since we’ve been at Oxy, as I was Friday night. This drug is also one that most everyone here at Oxy will at some point in their lives have an opportunity to abuse. The dangerous drug I am referring to is power. Please friends, when you are tempted, don’t follow the path of Ms. Cottrill, don’t get drunk with power, go on any power trips, or let any power you have go to your head. We are all civil people with harmless intentions and I think most all of us dislike being victimized by the abuse of power. Ms. Cottrill forgot about our common bond as people trying to live happy lives and abused her power by refusing to let me attend the dance even though she knew I met the requirement necessary to enter the dance-being an Oxy student. I tried to assist her in overcoming this deep hallucinogenic trip of power she was on by diagnosing it for her. As is common with people under the influence of power, her ego took a hit and her power trip got worse. She blackmailed a friend I was with into revealing my identity so she could further abuse her power against me in retaliation of my innocent attempt to be there for her as a concerned Oxy community member. So now I’d like to call on all of my fellow students, who will certainly be confronted by her abuse of power in the future, to join me in being there for her as supporters as she struggles to overcome the rabbit-hole of confused power abuse she has fallen into. Lets remind her that as a member of our community we value her as a person and remind her that she doesn’t need to abuse this drug just because she may have lingering feelings of inadequacy. We’re there for you Kenna.
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