Northeastern University student from Connecticut was found dead

by Nicholas Papadopolous


A 22-year-old Northeastern University student from Connecticut was found dead in her Mission Hill apartment yesterday. Rebecca Payne was a senior and she was President of the Athletic Training Club. Her body was found later by fellow classmates as her door was ajar.
School shootings are becoming so common that they almost seem not newsworthy. Columbine and Virginia Tech are just some of the more publicized school shootings in recent memory.
As these shootings become more common, I am beginning to change my opinion on a very serious issue. If anybody had asked me at the beginning of this year whether or not video game violence is an issue, I would have laughed. Now, I am beginning to believe that the ever expanding violence that the youth cause may be related to an increase in video game violence.
With new HD televisions and games such as “Grand Theft Auto 4” and “Gears of War” with disgustingly real graphics, I think children have trouble deciphering what’s real and what’s fake.
Salesman will argue that the “mature” rating is there to keep the game out of kid’s hands. However, I personally have bought a game meant for 17 year olds when I was 15.
So, either salesmen should reprehended harder for selling mature games to underage kids or game producers shouldn’t sell the games to unlawful sellers