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October Editoral: Redhawk Confessional a positive step

Technology runs our world. Everywhere we go, cell phones, computers and Smartboards surround us from every side.

The Internet can be described as our voice, our forum, something that we live and breathe on a daily basis. However, the Internet is one part of our technological world that we often take for granted.

While there are many ways that people can misuse and abuse the Internet, we commend juniors Nishat Ahmed and Affan Qureshi for creating the Facebook advice profile, Redhawk Confessional.

We also commend them for their genuine intentions to help our student body via the World Wide Web. We believe that they produced a valuable student resource, and we are saddened by the fact that they are discontinuing their website.

Despite the fact that Ahmed and Qureshi still offer their services through their personal Facebook profiles, we feel that the anonymous factor their webpage offered was one of its benefits.

Some students may be struggling internally with their problems and are unable to take the leap of faith it takes to speak face-to-face to a professional, or even a friend.

We also feel that face-to-face communication is always preferred to electronic communication.

However, we feel that in this situation, students having the choice of anonymity is preferred.

Despite this, the Central Times recognizes the risks associated with such anonymity and the burden that it could have potentially placed on Ahmed and Qureshi.

Furthermore, we respect their decision to close down the site. We are thankful that no serious problems occurred while the website was in service.

We, as students, are always taught that the little things done for people in their time of need add up in the end. We attended assemblies in elementary school that encouraged the idea of supporting others.

Therefore, we recognize Ahmed and Qureshi’s efforts to carry on the “Challenge Day mentality” of being open and helping people. We feel that they are one of the only concrete examples we’ve seen of this mind-set that has carried over since Central hosted Challenge Day last month. We hope that other students and faculty members will be able to continue to manifest this mind-set.

The Central Times is also disappointed in the “joke responses” posted on the website by a few of Central’s students.

We believe that the students who used the site for personal entertainment prove to be ignorant for targeting something with such valuable intentions.

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