Recent incidents raise safety concerns

Sophomore Esther Trujillo wondered why a big, navy blue pickup wouldn’t make a turn after she tried to wave it on before crossing South Academy Street around 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 21.

When she looked in the car, the two teenage boys in the front seat looked down at their phones. But as Trujillo walked down West Brooks Street toward the Kappa Kappa Gamma House, their headlights turned on behind her.

She heard the thud of feet hitting ground. Trujillo, a Chicago native, is no stranger to staying alert. She turned around, fists raised.

Someone in a gorilla suit was lumbering toward her, arms out.

“What are you doing? Knock it off!” she screamed.

She stood her ground and the person in the costume ran back to the truck,anthropology-sociology and double minoring in journalism and English literature. She began writing for TKS during her freshman year and served as co-mosaic editor as a sophomore. Kiannah studied and reported in Morocco under Round Earth Media in the winter and spring of 2015 and was subsequently published in Al Jazeera. She completed an editorial internship at New York magazine the following summer.

Rachel Landman graduated in 2017, majoring in creative writing and double mimnoring in journalism and environmental studies. She was editor-in-chief of TKS her senior year and worked for TKS for a four years as a News Editor her sophomore and junior years and as a volunteer writer as a freshman. Rachel is the recipient of two first place awards from the Illinois College Press Association in 2015