Brittany McGregor
12/03/2009
4:19PM
This week I found a very surprising article. A student from UNC Asheville who was studying n Mexico was stabbed. She is now in ICU at a hospital trying to recover. It shocked both the university officials and the friends of the student. The student was at a party and decided to take a taxi but the cabdriver tried to rob her. The cabdriver stabbed her several times including injuries to her lungs, spleen, pancreas and intestines. Official say that she fought very hard but they are optimistic about her recovery. The student was over there studying through North Carolina’s exchange program, which currently has 19 students from NC studying in Mexico. This story was a really sad one because she was in Mexico trying to get an education and was attacked. A lot of people may decide not to go study abroad now due to this incident. A representative for the UNC Asheville said that students can face unsafe situations anywhere in the world and that they need to prepare as much as possible for those situations. The NC exchange programs currently provides a day long orientation program at UNC Greensboro that gives specific advice about the country they study in. I think they should perhaps increase it to 3 or more days so that the students will be more aware.
http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20091203/NEWS01/912030318
3 comments:
This is awful. I would be scared to be a exchange student. I just goes to show that you can trust anyone even if they are a cabdriver.
That's terrible! I have always wanted to study abroad, but that really makes me think twice. But then again, it could happen anywhere.
Wow. Sadly this is not the only story about students studying aboard and going missing or killed or attacked. Studying aboard is an amazing expierence or students and it sucks that we even have to worry about his kind of thing.
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