If there were a man on campus with a rifle and a large amount of drugs, I would want to know. I think we all would. And yet too many students have no idea that this exact situation happened on our campus last week.

On September 11, LSU was relatively quiet for a Friday in the fall. Our game against Mississippi State was being held in Starkville, so campus was calm. We went about our daily routines- going to class, grabbing lunch at the union, hanging out on the parade grounds. Meanwhile, there was a serious potential danger on campus that no one was even aware of yet.

According to the Reveille, on that Friday afternoon LSU Police arrested an 18-year-old man, Trevis Williams, in his car near the parade grounds. The article says that police approached the car after several witnesses reported seeing the man "slumped over in his seat with a gun in his lap parked in the roadway."

According to the report, police found Williams to be unconscious with his finger resting on the trigger of an AK-47 rifle. Around 3 p.m. they broke the window to gain entry, and the suspect did not wake up.

The arrest report reveals that officers found "28 rounds in the magazine of the 7.62 caliber rifle" along with "41 grams of marijuana in 27 pre-packaged plastic bags, 55 Xanax pills split between nine packages and 30 ecstasy tablets."

So, just to recap... there was an alleged drug dealer on campus, passed out in his car in the roadway with his finger resting on the trigger of an assault rifle.

My mom made me sign up for the emergency text system. I never got a message. The University never sent an email. I found a few articles on the incident by surrounding news outlets, (WAFB, The Advocate) the problem with this is that news coverage is delayed and does not warn of a threat, it reports on a previous threat.

In their defense, I'm sure the campus police did not consider him an immediate threat once they discovered he was passed out and brought him into custody. But when they arrived on the scene and found an unconscious man with his finger on the trigger of a gun, I would have appreciated a little warning.

People wandered campus without the knowledge of what was going on just yards away. A crowd formed around the scene to see what was going on. They were curious because no one had told us anything. Because of the lack of communication, students placed themselves in a risky situation because they were uninformed.

No one warned us. So why does no one care?

I'm not trying to attack our police department. They found and arrested a dangerous man on our campus before anything tragic happened. I just think we can learn from this scary situation to have a safer and more aware campus in the future.