EL200: Current event

Lynch Field security measures studied by Bob Stiles for the Tribune-Review

This article caught my eye first when I Googled for local news in Westmoreland County, because I spent much of my youth at Lynch Field figure skating during the winter months, as they melt the ice down in the summer for the deck hockey players. Aside from skating there, I attend Greensburg Community Days there every year, a popular annual event for the city. It's a beautiful complex and a great place to do some physical activity whether it be walking, biking, skating, or using the Aerobics Center. To read that people were vandalizing the complex made me shake my head.

It made me shake my head just the same way as seeing fallen student artwork or tore up turf on the practice fields on campus does. Students vandalize SHU property on practically a daily basis--just look at the Police Blotter in any issue of The Setonian--or for that matter, just look around campus. It never takes long for new additions to campus to be destroyed by some immature, ignorant student. The Setonian makes a point to cover vandalism on campus, whether through a column or a news story, or even through photos. The Setonian can benefit from the journalistic practice in this article because this article demonstrates well-roundedness and presentation of all possible facts. The Setonian has a habit of simply blaming the students for everything when in reality we need campus police to make more of an appearance all over campus (invest in another Jeep?) and we also need more cameras, an action the city is taking with security at Lynch Field. In this article Stiles makes sure he presents first the issue at hand: the improved security measures being discussed by the Greensburg Council. The Setonian, instead of just focusing on the actual acts of vandalism, could focus more on what's being done to prevent future destruction of campus. Stiles then continues on to describe the vandalism/reasons why increased security is being discussed. True use of the inverted pyramid considering the angle of the article.