Rhetorical Activites 3

DA’s Opinion section of Tuesday, September 9, 2008
“University text alert system fails to deliver”
This article was written after the shooting on high street that occurred on the past Sunday morning. The main point in the article was the text message alert that West Virginia University has for emergencies and how the emergency text alert system was not used during the shooting.

I thought the writer accomplished all stasis arguments in the article. The writer uses “hateful speech” by pointing out that the conjecture of the article was describing how city police officials did not use the emergency text message alert system. The police officials thought it was not necessary to spread panic when they already had the violators in custody and the shooting was not on campus property.

The definition of stasis in the article is about what police officials think of when the word “emergency” is used to send out an alert text message for the safety of WVU’s students.

The quality of stasis in the article is the body of it all. The shooting not only affects the students, but the local community. A student, comparative questions of quality is the state of no other alternatives for their protection if police officials keep continuing to say that each incident was un-necessary to “create panic when there’s no reason for panic.” Students may look at the issue of they have a right to be texted, whether they police feels it is necessary not to send a campus wide panic.

The writer does not support the police officials. It is clearly stated in the text, “Just because a dangerous crime is committed outside an invisible boundary between campus and off-campus does not mean it won’t affect our lives or how safe we feel in our community.” In the article the writer states a specific argument and has a fact that WVU is ranked one of the safest schools in the Big East. If we have such a strong safety policy then why reject the text message alert system, whether or not it seems plausible.