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and licensing this technology, and making it available only to Regarding the “Drones people who have a legitimate for Good” article in the reason for owning and using it, Fall 2014 issue of CC: really such a bad idea? Magazine: I must say that I Unless people are trained Your drone is readY. Are you? am very disappointed that a and licensed, there will be many graduate of CC would state drones buzzing around the sky that drones should not be at no particular height and/ blamed for misuse, but that or in no particular direction. we should instead blame the cameras Think of the potential for crashes, and they carry. where, and on whom, those crashed That is the same absurd logic that drones might land. the National Rifle Association uses to There is also an issue of security. The rationalize everyone having the right to FAA has sent out an “advisory circular” own a machine gun. “It’s not guns that telling users not to fly above 400 feet. kill people; it’s people that kill people.” How many will know how high 400 feet It was similarly argued that the use of is? How many will care? handheld cell phones would be properly Isn’t it much too easy for a terrorist understood and that no one would use to fly one near an airport and into the them in an unsafe manner. So no laws engine of a plane on takeoff or landing, or regulations were set up until people sending the plane crashing to the ground? grew so accustomed to using them that I’m sorry to say it, but too many they had no hesitation to use them (for people have no sense. They have no sense both talking and texting) while driving, of courtesy, no sense of responsibility, creating serious road hazards. no sense of spatial depth, no sense of the Think for a second about the negative effects of their actions. uses that this potentially amazing I think it is time to rethink any technology can be put to in the hands of objections to requiring that all drone users non-trained, non-licensed and non-flight- be trained, tested and licensed. There tested users. is nothing wrong with making a profit; A teenager could use one to take that’s what business is for. But to try to video of someone undressing from an make it at the risk of everyone else, and to otherwise impossible vantage point. This push for no regulation, is irresponsible. video could then be posted on YouTube, so millions of people could see it. Is drone Hank Kornfeld ’76 technology really so harmless? Is testing Katonah, N.Y. Connecticut College Magazine // Fall 2014
Volume 23 // Number 1
Timothy Reuter ’99 says flying robots aren’t going away. And that’s a good thing.
Preventing sexual assault p. 30 // Picture New London p. 14 // Behind the best-sellers p. 36
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CORRECTION The total number of reported sexual assaults on campus in the years of 2011, 2012 and 2013 was incorrect in the “Connecting the Dots” story in the Fall 2014 issue. The correct number is 25. We regret the error.
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