Reinstate Tyler Molander as a student with a full apology.
Reinstate Tyler Molander as a student with a full apology.
The Issue
Tyler Molander was a student at UMass who wanted to make more friends, so he printed and distributed a letter organizing a meet up on campus. In the letter he asked people who were already his friend not to come so he could meet only new people. Instead of meeting some new people, Tyler was forced to withdraw from the University, and labeled by students as unstable. Police even informed Tyler, as they escorted him to University Health Services for a mental health analysis, that students had been threatening to smash him over the head with a bottle. All this young man did was make a bold move to meet people in an environment that does not help at all with the growing of one's social life. He tried to break the sea of cliques which reside at UMass and branch out to meet new people, which is a very tough thing to do for most, but instead of shrugging it off, those who weren't interested labeled him psychotic, unstable, and wierd. The University should reinstate Tyler as a student and issue an apology as soon as possible. It is a travesty that someone who wants to meet new people gets thrown out of school and threatened for trying to do so.
The Issue
Tyler Molander was a student at UMass who wanted to make more friends, so he printed and distributed a letter organizing a meet up on campus. In the letter he asked people who were already his friend not to come so he could meet only new people. Instead of meeting some new people, Tyler was forced to withdraw from the University, and labeled by students as unstable. Police even informed Tyler, as they escorted him to University Health Services for a mental health analysis, that students had been threatening to smash him over the head with a bottle. All this young man did was make a bold move to meet people in an environment that does not help at all with the growing of one's social life. He tried to break the sea of cliques which reside at UMass and branch out to meet new people, which is a very tough thing to do for most, but instead of shrugging it off, those who weren't interested labeled him psychotic, unstable, and wierd. The University should reinstate Tyler as a student and issue an apology as soon as possible. It is a travesty that someone who wants to meet new people gets thrown out of school and threatened for trying to do so.
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Petition created on February 1, 2012