15 Feb
Do you think they know?
The University just sent us an email about the Northern Illinois incident:
Dear UAlbany Students:
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* The Middle Earth Hotline (442-5777) offers free and anonymous peer assistance to students. The hotline is open from 12 noon to 12 midnight Monday through Thursday and 24 hours a day on weekends when classes are in session.
I appreciate the sentiment in this email, but I couldn’t help but be extremely curious at one point. Middle Earth hotline? No, it’s not a joke. Do you think they ever read Tolkien? Weird…
It just seems that if you truly want to offer people a hotline for help, then it might be worth finding a name that doesn’t invoke images of goblins, ogres, and wizards.