ECU Deals With Vandalism At Their Field

In the article "ECU student charged with “unacceptable and disappointing” Dowdy-Ficklen vandalism." Friedlander talks about how the ECU field was tore apart by a freshman at their school. The student broke in and stole some equipment and started doing donuts on the field, causing a lot of damage to the field and making a lot of holes in the field. The way they caught the student was by finding his phone on the field that he left while he was vandalizing it. Also they had video evidence of him doing it. This got the student arrested for vandalizing personal property and trespassing. All of this caused the university to go into panic because they had a game that was going to be played in the stadium that week. So they had to get some money they had put away for a crises and insurance which helped get the field up to shape to make it playable by game day.    

            This is a horrible situation that they were put in and I don’t know why a student would do this to their university, just to have fun. I think the situation was handled well and the student got the punishment that he deserved. Also I think the athletic department did a great job in getting the field up to shape for game day. That was the most important situation, and they handled it well. These types of situations happens a lot and you need to have some type of plan that will get things back to normal in a short period of time and ECU did a great job in doing this.

Friedlander, Brett. "ECU student charged with “unacceptable and disappointing” Dowdy-Ficklen vandalism." 23 October 2012. Star News Online. 3 December 2012 <http://acc.blogs.starnewsonline.com/32719/ecu-student-charged-with-unacceptable-and-disappointing-dowdy-ficklen-vandalism/?tc=ar>.