Location Assignment

Tara Giddings

Journalism 1

3/6/17

Location description Assignment

Interview with a 20-year-old student who has just been expelled from USF for drinking

Near Fromm on the University of San Francisco campus is a small pathway decorated with plants, just far enough away from the rest of campus to not be in the center of activity, but close enough to look on at whatever excitement is occurring. The trees were bright green and full of life at the start of the school year, similar to the urgency of life felt by all the incoming students. The flowers bloomed in a variety of colors, rejuvenated red, optimistic orange, passionate purple, brilliant blue, or perhaps they just seemed more alive with the campus’s air of hope.

Today the area is bare, the trees have lost their leaves, flowers are now dormant, the joy once felt is replaced with bitter cold cutting into your skin like glass as you sit there freezing and regretting your decision to go outside. Above the once budding green life, now all you can is see is the church. Its ominous, overwhelming quality, blocking all the blue from the sky, appearing to be the ultimate judgment of your sins. The huge building stands guard over the quiet empty campus in the winter. It protects students from failure and its prevents pain and harm, it acts as a guardian and a master. A beacon of hope, to a warning of horror. The burden of the beautiful view may prevent students from going astray, but if they do anyway, will it forgive them for their mistakes?