✍ Scribed by Williams, Lee Burdette
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
ON a College CaMPus, we live on the edge of tragedy. We walk that edge every day, aware that the possibility of death is always one misstep away. One careless move by any of the hundreds or thousands of us walking that edge, and our whole community falls into a canyon of grief from which we will climb only after weeks, maybe months, of pain.
If you have worked for twenty years on college campuses, as I have, you have probably taken this plunge a number of times. Our campuses are populated with young people who are incautious, eager to fit in, inexperienced in ways that we who are in charge (as much as anyone can be in charge of college students) have long left behind. We also have the added benefit (or burden, perhaps) of knowing the pain that comes from that awful fall, and that perspective keeps us wary, attentive, looking down at our feet to take the most assured steps possible and, in the process, missing out on the spectacular view.
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