An Article About a Peer

In a city high school, a young man rushes out of his classroom to attempt to shove a young woman before rushing back into the classroom. He doesn't do it with much force, just enough to move her aside. Why does this young man display such immature behavior? Is this how one should treat someone that they dislike? This couldn't have gone without consequence in a high school. What is the story, here?

The young man is Dan Nguyen. Not only has he shoved this young woman into a locker, but he has also kicked her. However, these actions are not an everyday occurrence of two people just toying around; Dan intends to cause her harm. And Dan feels he has an adequate reason for assaulting her. But this does not start from the school year. One must look back to when Dan was enrolled in the SU summer program.

Dan has shown that he can become obsessed with certain individuals. He perpetuated the grade school act of writing the name of anyone he is infatuated with in a notebook while in the summer program, and has expressed the desire to put these pages on his dorm wall. This pales in comparison to the rest of his actions. Dan went into another dorm, and as two individuals watched, he proceeded to sniff the underwear and the pillow of a peer. Dan has also threatened a peer with a key to the neck due to the pasting of flower stickers on his dorm room door. He did the same to another peer who was inviting himself over into his dorm room. These actions were retold, and in some cases they were dramatized. Some have stated that he has gone on “panty raids”, which is untrue. Allegedly he also rolled around in a pile of underwear, but this is also false.

He has stated he desired to end the life of a number of individuals. They will not be named in this article. Dan does not like them usually for selfish reasons, ranging from if someone is dating his love interest at the time to allegedly spreading rumors about him. He has even gone as far as searching in Google Maps street view for days to find the home of one of these persons. There is one individual he hates the most. His only reason is that she has allegedly spread rumors about him. This is that young woman he has kicked and shoved. He has said that he wants to give her “a moral lesson”.

All of this has orchestrated one end for Dan. I have not interviewed him because I have already been told what he has been saying. He is attempting to take back everything he has done or said, but it is too late to deny anything has happened.

Afterword...
I have only told as much as I am sure of. I have conducted interviews and gathered screen shots, and I have used these pieces of evidence as the basis for what I think is the truth told in this article. I have ceased all efforts to gather information about Dan after the publication of this article. Whether or not he has changed is your call, but I keep this piece of writing as an example of one of (hopefully many) journalistic pursuits. And, for the record, I do not condemn nor protect Dan's reputation.