‘I Shouldn’t Have to Come Back to Where I Sleep and Worry About What I’m Going to See’
A student at a Catholic university in Omaha says he received a note telling him to “kill himself” taped to his dorm room door. Joseph Gray of Creighton University, a Jesuit school, posted the note to his Facebook page. It includes an anti-gay slur at the top, followed by a warning to “leave our school.” It also says, “gays are not not welcome in Nebraska or at Creighton.”
Gray tells WOWT News he wants the school to take action for the sake of others.
“I don’t want to ruin someone’s life,” Gray says. “It didn’t ruin my life. All it did was frustrate me, and I’m a big kid, but it can ruin someone else’s.”
“I’m not the only gay kid on campus,” Gray observes. “I’m not the only kid that suffers from bullying on campus related to this.”
He’s hoping by speaking out the perpetrator can be caught.
“I have to go on the street and worry about it every day,” Gray says. “I shouldn’t have to come back to where I sleep and worry about what I’m going to see.”
“To tell someone to just kill themselves is not OK,” he adds.
WOWT reports “Gray said it was not the first time something like this has happened to him at Creighton because he is gay.”
The school issued a statement on Friday denouncing the vile attack.
“The incident is a breach of the Jesuit values we all share as the Creighton community, values which bind us all in the common mission of ensuring Creighton is a safe, respectful, inclusive place.”
University President, the Rev. Daniel Hendrickson said in a statement the note “is not at all representative of the environment we desire as a university.”
Founded 139 years ago, Creighton University in 2001 approved a Gay Straight Alliance.
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Image: Screenshot via WOWT