Comments on: BREAKING NEWS: Poly student found dead

By: Avan

Avan — Sat, 01 May 2010 08:38:33 +0000

My deepest respect goes ou to Charles’ family and friends. I knew Charles since Middle School and I can’t believe this happened. I’m sorry for such a late response but I only found out tonight. Much love goes out to him and everyone back at home from Torrance will remember him to be a kind, likeable, and good-hearted person. Take care Charles!

By: H

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:26:32 +0000

He Died on my birthday. I don\’t think I\’ll ever be able to forget him.

By: H

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:26:13 +0000

He Died on my birthday. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to forget him.

By: Cal Poly Alumnus

Cal Poly Alumnus — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:02:46 +0000

This is a good example of a someone who’s still in the process of learning wanting to showcase what they know – or in this case, what they think they know.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:36:01 +0000

The SCHOOL does not \"produce people\" such as Lauren. It\’s utterly ridiculous to blame her comments on Cal Poly and lump all of us under the same category. I have to admit, I was curious HOW they knew it was a suicide, but I wasn\’t going to go around asking anyone because quite frankly it\’s none of my business.
I just assumed he fell off and it was freak accident, because it\’s happened before in that area a few times.
When I read her comment, I remember actually gasping out loud because it was so unexpected.

What matters is his family and friends lost someone dear to them.

I feel really really awful for his friends who found him, for his family, and for him.

I feel the paper acted appropriately in editing out details. honestly I don\’t care if they put a note or not. Sometimes things shouldn\’t be published out of respect, and I think it shows a lot that the staff recognized that. Even the local papers have left details out.

By: MG

MG — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:26:54 +0000

sam, please dont place all cal poly students under lauren’s same category, that is not fair to us students who knew and loved charles and show some decency about his passing.

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:53:38 +0000

Lauren wasn’t interested in being honest, she just wanted attention. She shows no journalistic decency, if that’s possible, she doesn’t have the maturity to realize that what she does hurts people. Very unprofessional and I hope she learns her lesson.
We don’t need to have the grisly details to understand that a student who was loved dearly by his family and friends is gone forever.
Doesn’t this school teach humanity? Obviously it doesn’t when it produces people like Lauren who pretend they are journalists and hide behind the cloak of wanting to get to the truth.
There is plenty of time in the future to get the grisly facts, now is not the time.

By: Megan Jeffrey

Megan Jeffrey — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:17:13 +0000

Oh wow… I knew about this story, but not about this. I agree with the person who argued that details of a suicide are usually not reported in a news article unless the person is a public figure. While Lauren’s argument would have merit if, say, this were a homicide investigation, suicide is still consider a private matter (especially the death of a student).

By: NA

NA — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:20:09 +0000

Thank you, Lauren, I was curious about the facts of his death. It doesn\’t seem like he would kill himself. …Facts are facts. and I don\’t think being honest about them is disrespectful.

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:32:20 +0000

she’s disgusting, you should read this horrible thing she posted on the memorial facebook page