The Chronicle

March 7th, 2008

On Eve Carson

I don’t understand. I think that’s about all I can say. I don’t understand how a 22-year-old with a future and a spirit most of us only wish we had ends up dead. I don’t understand how so much promise and beauty can be swept from the Earth in one horrible blow. If there is a God, I don’t understand Him.

But mostly, I don’t understand the sick feeling in my stomach that hasn’t gone away since I began reporting this story today afternoon. And I don’t understand why my hands won’t stop shaking when to me Eve Carson of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill should not be anything more than the YouTube videos and smiling pictures CNN has been blasting at me all day. And I don’t understand why I’ll never forget her face.

So I don’t want to know about her death now. I don’t want to think about the person who could commit such an unspeakable crime because doing so is glorifying a person plagued with hate, anger and cruelty—three things even I know Eve never would have honored.

Instead I want to think about the beautiful people that are here, to think of the Eves that blessed, bless and will bless us for years to come. I want to think there’s something left here to believe in, to trust in and to move us to be something more than what we think we are.

I want to think of how intelligent, how talented and how caring this one girl was. I want to think of the friends and family members who made her that way, who inspired and were inspired by this one-of-a-kind human being. I want to think that after today, maybe we will all be a little more like Eve.

And then I want to shed some tears. For Eve and for all of us.

–Shreya Rao, News Editor

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