Dangerous Dorm

Now I must admit that there are a lot of things that go on in this world that trouble me and leave me examining the nature of man. This was the case when I learned about a young woman who had a fight with her dorm mate after accusing her of stealing from her. The fight resulted in her dorm mate’s death. Here are the details Galareka Harrison, 18, has been released from a hospital and was to be booked on a charge of first-degree murder in the death of Mia Henderson, also 18, university spokesman Johnny Cruz said. Cruz said he did not have any details on the fight between Harrison and Henderson, of the Navajo Nation. He did not say how Henderson died, but university police Sgt. Eugene Mejia said she had injuries "consistent with stabbing." Mejia and jail spokesmen said they did not know whether Harrison has been appointed a lawyer. She denied all media requests for interviews, a jail spokesman added. Harrison was not listed in the university's phone directory, and attempts to reach her family were unsuccessful. Campus police were called to the Graham-Greenlee residence hall shortly before 6 a.m. because of a fight involving injuries, Mejia said. They found Henderson and Harrison and took them to the hospital. Henderson had filed a police report Aug. 28 saying that she had been the victim of a property theft and that she suspected her roommate, University Police Chief Anthony Daykin said. The roommate had also been named as a possible suspect in a theft report filed by another student in the Graham-Greenlee residence hall, Daykin said. Henderson had told officers she would not stay in the dorm room until her roommate was moved, he said. The university offered her alternative housing, but she declined, and Daykin said he doesn't know when she went back to the room. Lee Ann Dejolie, a Northern Arizona University student who described herself as a close friend of Henderson's, said that she had spoken with Henderson this week and that the subject of her roommate came up. "She said her roommate was going through her purse and taking stuff out of her purse. So Mia was really ticked off," Dejolie said. I know that our young people have a lot to deal with in our over stimulated society. The thing that troubles me is that we have not given our young people realistic ways to deal with conflict. It does not matter if they are in a gang in the inner city or a student at a college. My soul is most definitely troubled.

Peace and Soul

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