APRIL 20 SHOULD BE MORE MEMORABLE

On the morning of April 20th, 1999 two high school seniors who were
just a month away from graduating entered their school with
semi-automatic weapons, knifes, and several small bombs.

Once the smoke had cleared thirteen people lay dead. Despite the media
attention paid to the event at the time few stop to think about what
happened anymore. That is, unless another school shooting occurs as it
did just a month ago.

Not all college students forget the significance of this day however.
Wednesday morning I briefly spoke to a friend at University of Florida
who informed me of how her roommates remembered that it was once again
April, 20.

They woke up at 4:20 in the morning and began to smoke
marijuana.

Six years ago 13 people died because we could not identify the warning
signs of troubled teenagers.

Just a month ago, 10 more people died because of another troubled
youth. Let us not forget these events, and hopefully within a year's
time we will have a better reason to remember the date of 4/20, one
that doesn't involve the issue of drugs.

Josh Weiss

Freshman, Roswell