The Athletic's DanaONeilWriter has children who attend Alabama and Michigan State. Separate shootings have rocked both campuses in the last month. 'I’m not here to debate gun laws. I’m here simply as a mom, considering the consequences.'
If you are lucky enough, your college campus becomes your happy place. It’s where you go to try on adulthood before being forced headlong into it. Sometimes it fits like a glove, other times the fit feels a bit too snug still, but you get to toy with it a little bit until you get it right. You get to make mistakes and be a goofball. Do stupid things that years later, you’ll recall with your friends, embellishing the story and realizing even the true version is pretty hysterical.
My son is lucky. He has a few happy places and Michigan State quickly became a new one. It wasn’t his first choice, but it immediately became the right choice. I don’t have Life 360, but Find Your Phone does the trick. Plenty of nights I smiled to myself, happy to see he was somewhere out and about, making and enjoying friends. Essentially doing college. I never worried about him. Not once. Now I will.
But on Wednesday he lit a candle at a campus vigil, and on Monday he returned to class as reporters recorded the return to “normal,’’ and moms showed up to give out hugs. Tuesday night he worked a basketball game that will be more communal catharsis than hunt for a March resume boost.
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