College Paper Comments On Homeless Beatings By Youth

The UC San Diego paper comments on the alarming rate of teenagers beating up homeless people in America. They blame it on an indifferent attitude instilled in today’s youth, as well as the fault of the movie “Bumfights.”

Whatever the case, the recent beatings of homeless people by youth in the last year expose a character flaw in our society. It’s great that a university paper would inform their youth-oriented readers of this flaw.

In fact, the paper goes on to encourage its students to take “public service” courses on community and education as a positive response to the recent beatings.

Here’s how they end the article: “In affluent La Jolla, it is easy to lose oneself to the impersonal luster of business complexes and the core commercialism of nearby malls. But UCSD students need to remain alert to the plight of those people outside the bubble of campus.”