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Originally posted by

R

"It is unclear why Voinov was at the residence, which was not his, though the New Haven Independent reported that the apartment is allegedly notorious as a place for selling illegal drugs."

How dare the Daily Campus print this information? (If you can even call it information.) Adding the word "though" to this sentence infers that drugs were involved. Without proof, all you are doing is tarnishing the name of a now-dead UConn student and friend to many. I have been upset at the DC before, but never have you sunk so low in my estimation.

R, I agree. How tragic that the Dc stooped to this level. Let all HONOR his memory.

Originally posted by

R

"It is unclear why Voinov was at the residence, which was not his, though the New Haven Independent reported that the apartment is allegedly notorious as a place for selling illegal drugs."

How dare the Daily Campus print this information? (If you can even call it information.) Adding the word "though" to this sentence infers that drugs were involved. Without proof, all you are doing is tarnishing the name of a now-dead UConn student and friend to many. I have been upset at the DC before, but never have you sunk so low in my estimation.

I grew up in New Haven and went to Middle School and had friends that lived in this area till I left to go into the military years ago. The area is not a nice part of town and it was and is now rampant with drug activity, the area looks worse today then it did when I was walking those streets in the late 70s and early 80s. If it is a building that is reputed to be place where drugs are know to be bought and sold it is more than likely true and that is a very relevant although sad fact to this tragedy regardless of whether you, friends or family want the dirty laundry to be hung in public. The Daily Campus would be neglect in not reporting this information as a possible reason this student was so far from campus and possibly contributing to the reason he was found dead.

Originally posted by

R

"It is unclear why Voinov was at the residence, which was not his, though the New Haven Independent reported that the apartment is allegedly notorious as a place for selling illegal drugs."

How dare the Daily Campus print this information? (If you can even call it information.) Adding the word "though" to this sentence infers that drugs were involved. Without proof, all you are doing is tarnishing the name of a now-dead UConn student and friend to many. I have been upset at the DC before, but never have you sunk so low in my estimation.

The Daily Campus is reporting what police reported. All the paper does is report with what they have. No-one is tarnishing anyone's name except the person that was there. This kid was constantly high, he used to smoke right outside my dorm all the time. You don't go to a highly trafficked drug house to play video games, so as to say the police or rather the daily campus is 'infering' drugs were involved seems pretty reasonable to me. Sorry someone had to die here, R.I.P. Vlad, but let's not get all disrespectful about it and start tarnishing the Daily Campus.

Sympathy is certainly a unique trait, is not not? I am certain Vlad had plenty more than any of you. His death is tragic no matter how you look at it. The man stood out at his University regardless whether or not he consumed any illegal drug. I am certain, as his friend noted, he would prefer to be remembered as a visionary or revolutionary rather than a "druggy." These comments are cruel. No one deserves to lose his life at such a young age.

Originally posted by

J.H.

Come on, people. The wild speculation and bashing needs to stop. It is beyond disrespectful and ignorant to attack someone who has passed, especially when you have no perspective of what happened. Anonymously slandering a deceased person you don't even know is stooping to a new low.

Here's what we do know:

Vlad was an extremely intelligent, aware, and revolutionary guy; UC students loved him. He had a bright future ahead of him and he will certainly be missed. It's a shame when such promising and compassionate people are taken so young. RIP Vlad.

Promising and Compassionate? He wants his friends to take retaliation for his death according to this New Haven Register report on his death and the content of his facebook profile.

"Neighbors have said drugs are sold out of the Poplar Street house, and while Voinov excelled in high school and established himself as a leader at UConn, at home he identified with a local street gang believed to have ties with the Bloods.

On his Facebook page, Voinov boasted about being affiliated with the Tre, a street gang whose turf is centered in the Dwight-Kensington neighborhood. He opined philosophically in his writing about the violence and poverty in New Haven and foreshadowed his own death.

"I want all of my neighbors to obtain all of the resources that they need and want, so that they may one day be less inclined to shoot each other over petty squabbles, pride, and hood loyalty. And I understand that I'm going to keep striving towards this, until one night when an unidentified assailant pulls up and murks off on me, for whatever reason," he wrote on his Facebook page. "And I won't have any regrets towards it, because as long as I'm pursuing my agenda, it doesn't matter when it happens, because I'll have the personal gratification of knowing that I've led a fulfilling life.

"And I wouldn't even hate the guy for doing it ... I'd finally find solace in death. All I'd want is for my friends to (retaliate), if you'd find out who.""

http://www.nhregister.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20092645&BRD=1281&PAG=461&dept_id=635049&rfi=6

Originally posted by

J.H

Marc,

You've made it very obvious that you never met the kid and you are speaking way out of your league here. If someone you knew died and others attacked him or her based on what the NEWSPAPER says, I bet you'd be pretty pissed.

Again, I can't believe how ignorant you have to be to attack someone's character when you didn't even know them. There was a reason Vlad was so popular at UConn; he was a great kid who was nice to everyone. To tarnish his name because you think you have the authority to speak about him (from reading the paper) is just vile. You and the rest of the judgmental fucks should take a hard look at yourselves in the mirror and think about how you'd feel if this happened to one of your friends.

Please show me where I have been judgmental, it seems the only one doing the judging here is yourself. I merely related my personal knowledge of the area in which the death occured as this publication and the publication that was referenced was criticised for reporting the FACTS of the matter and not gushing with the emotion of friends of the deceased.

If it were one of my friends I wouldn't fool myself as to the kind of person he was or why he died its quite obvious from what others thought about him and what he thought about himself (as guaged by his thoughts on his profile) are two different things and the reality was probably a combination of both.

I'm sorry for your loss but I won't apologize for anything that I've commented on here because there is no need to, I told no lies and made no judgments.

Originally posted by

J.H

Marc,

You've made it very obvious that you never met the kid and you are speaking way out of your league here. If someone you knew died and others attacked him or her based on what the NEWSPAPER says, I bet you'd be pretty pissed.

Again, I can't believe how ignorant you have to be to attack someone's character when you didn't even know them. There was a reason Vlad was so popular at UConn; he was a great kid who was nice to everyone. To tarnish his name because you think you have the authority to speak about him (from reading the paper) is just vile. You and the rest of the judgmental fucks should take a hard look at yourselves in the mirror and think about how you'd feel if this happened to one of your friends.

Actually, your first post was quite reasonable and added some perspective to this happening. It's your judgment of his character that I find to be inappropriate. When you questioned his compassion and friendship because he "wanted his friends to retaliate"; that's when your judgment went even further askew. Who wouldn't want their friends to retaliate?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but you never mentioned actually meeting the kid. I was never a great friend of Vlad, but I knew him well enough that I'm upset at these snap judgments about his character. Your later posts made no indication of how the area impacted the events; all you did was defame a fallen friend who everyone will miss. You have absolutely no right to attack someone's character when you don't even know them. I'm not going to sit here and argue with one person who is speaking out of their boundary of knowledge -- not when I can go outside and ask any UConn student what they thought of Vlad. He was a spirited, friendly, and kind guy who was loved by all. No amount of media-based ultra-crepidarian judgments will ever change that. RIP Vlad.