Last Thursday night, an ordinary Ferris meal turned ugly when a student had his sensitive information exposed by a “friend” acting in bad faith. Lid L. Stoodant CC ‘29 was just finishing his third buffalo chicken wrap when his friend Ken Erie-Mishun casually asked him, “Hey, are you going back to John Jay after this?”
Stoodant’s fork (why he was using a fork while eating a buffalo chicken wrap is unclear to us at The Fed) clattered to the ground (or whatever sound a compostable fork makes on linoleum). Stoodant glared at Erie-Mishun in disbelief, his mouth agape.
“Bro, you can’t just say where I live like that!” Stoodant whispered harshly. “Are you trying to doxx me?” His eyes flitted around the room as every fellow student in Ferris became a potential enemy. “This is a serious breach of trust, Ken. You can’t go telling people that I, a freshman, actually live in the same place as over 50 percent of the freshmen! What if someone tries to find me?”
Stoodant quickly packed up his belongings and rushed back to John Jay, hoping he could avoid the prying eyes of his new stalkers. As he approached the John Jay front desk, he heard a voice ask, “Hey, do you live here?”
“No,” Stoodant cried, shielding his face with his hand. “I don’t live here! Leave me alone, don’t follow me!” He quickly tapped his CUID and hurried to the elevators, missing the voice reply, “Damn, okay, I just wanted a sign-in.”
Upon entering his room (in John Jay), Stoodant closed his blinds, locked the door, and pushed his wardrobe in front as a barricade. He pulled the covers above his head, shaking in his bed (in John Jay). Every set of footsteps outside his door had his heart pounding wildly. Even in his sleep, the sound of a car outside his window had him punching and kicking the imaginary attacker trying to steal him from his bed (in John Jay).
The next morning, Stoodant woke up with deep circles under his eyes and a deeper sense of betrayal. It remains to be seen whether his friendship with Erie-Mishun can ever be mended, or if Stoodant will ever feel safe sleeping in his residence hall (John Jay) again.
