2 Chinese students killed by USC campus
http://news.yahoo.com/la-police-arrest-2-killings-chinese-students-093512509.html
As the article states the students' parents have filed a suit against USC claiming that the term "Urban" which has been used to describe the school, was misleading to parents in China looking to send their children to the university. The victims' parents elaborate on the word "Urban" which has a different connotation in China referring to developed city life that is safe. The suit attacks the university for not properly notifying Chinese families about the hostile location surrounding USC. The question now is whether or not USC should have explicitly stated the dangerous location of the campus in South LA? The parents argument seems to focus on USC's negligence in warning about the surrounding region.
Although this is a tragedy that these students were victims of such a pointless crime I feel that the law suit against USC is absolutely ridiculous. First off, parents in China need to realize that USC is located in the US and that the word “urban” is being used according to its meaning here. I believe it should be up to the parents and international students to conduct research on the school they are attending prior to their arrival in order to ensure that know what they are getting themselves into. Second, according to the article, the students were shot a mile away from school, which I am assuming means that they were off campus. If they were off campus, it is no longer the responsibility of the University to provide them with a secure environment. If the students had been sitting in their car on campus and this tragedy had happened, then I believe there may be grounds for a lawsuit against the University. Based off of what I read in the article, the school did not do anything wrong/neglect them to provide them with a safe environment. I realize that the parents are obviously devastated by their loss and want someone to bear the responsibility of their deaths, but in this case it should not be the University. Overall, I think that people need to realize that the world is a very unfair and dangerous place and that every time something bad happens does not mean that a lawsuit should be filed.
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