Finding comfort in sad news

By Andrew Dubyckyj
Special Writer

One of the toughest things for a writer is to try to make sense of the sensless; and yet coming up with the right words can be as daunting of a task even if as a journalist you are called to either report or analyze the event when a tragefy hits close to home, it can affect minds that are taught to be objective.
On Good Friday in the afternoon the Halls of a building where I once sang songs with friends and heard the beautiful sounds of music, had been silenced by a senseless act of violence when a promising actress' life was cut short by a murder-suicide by the hands of her own classmate during an acting class in Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn.
I can not imagine what thoughts ran to the minds of my former teachers and the students that witnessed this horrific tragedy. As a journalist tragedy is something that one often encounters; and this week we have seen the horrific destructiion of nature in Italy, a drunk driver killing three people in L.A. including Nick Adenhart, a pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels whose promising career was cut short, and now another campus tragedy.
No matter how objective one is trained to be, it still affects the person covering the story, especially if a story hits close to home like it has for this writer today. Such stories reminds us of this fragile package called life and to let our loved ones know how much they mean to us eachday as families and friends morn lives that have gone too soon.

Andrew Dubyckyj is a journalism student at the University of Michigan-Dearborn and former student at Henry Ford Community College