An Introduction to Psychology group project leaves three students dead and one slightly wounded after a Wednesday night meeting in the Donnelley and Lee Library to discuss a project that was going south.
Amanda Smith ’19 claims that an unknown assailant burst into their study room and began to use the sharpened candy canes, materials of their experiment, to brutally attack her group members.
This was a sudden occurrence, for these four unsuspecting freshmen. The fourth, the only one that made it out with some cut-up and sticky hands, provided us with the scandalous inside information on what transpired throughout the course of the project.
This group had the deadly mix of one over achiever, Smith, and three slackers who were prime examples of what can happen when the diffusion of responsibility kicks in. They had only met up one previous time, and this was only because the professor forced some in-class project time in which everyone seemed to be at least remotely interested in working with each other. It wasn’t until Smith created a group chat in order to schedule more convenient times to meet that she realized no one had any intentions of doing the project. Out of the respect for the fallen students, we will leave out their names; one of the deceased had claim to have basketball practice all the time, when everyone knew that student wasn’t even on any team.
They were caught red handed playing video games in the Student Center when the basketball team had practice. Another of the deceased claimed that because they were a commuter, they could only meet at 5:00 a.m., which made everyone wonder how in the hell that is the most convenient time for any college student. Finally, the last of the deceased was just open and honest and admitted they didn’t give “two shits” about the project and was just taking this class pass/fail for a GEC requirement.
On the Wednesday night before the project was due, Smith managed to convince the others to at least come for the last round of data she was collecting, no one knew that that would have been the most inconvenient time for all. Smith claims that the sight was “horrific” yet the assailant spared the subjects to be tested and herself. When asked how the assailant burst into the study room if you need a key to get in, Amanda grew shifty and claimed they must have broken the lock. Then when I asked her why her hands were found sticky and cut up with a scent of peppermint, she proceeded to yell, “They had it coming!” and catapulted off the second floor of the library to the first. Some claim to have seen her disappear into a ravine, never to be seen again.
