<p>God, relax, Ahab. That oh-so-faux nonchalance in your apology belongs elsewhere. I didn’t see vehemence, anyway. Sarcasm, maybe. </p>
<p>I didn’t get your comment, either–I was trying to think of the few times I’ve been on Cranbrook’s campus and what “behind Cranbrook” meant. I thought you meant one of the roads that runs between the science center and the faculty housing. It’s true that Bloomfield Hills doesn’t have a “downtown.” That’s a problem with a lot of suburbs, and also why people like Birmingham and Royal Oak so much.</p>
<p>Mojojojo, whether you like it or not, break-ins happen everywhere. Ann Arbor and the Michigan campus are safer than most cities and campuses, but that doesn’t mean crimes don’t take place.</p>
<p>Relax Mojojojo. According to a recent study by the Chronicle of Higher Education, the University of Michigan had roughly 180 reported burglaries in a full academic year. That’s 5 burglaries per 1,000 students. Duke University was the worst of all universities surveyed, with over 1,000 reported burglaries. That’s more than 80 burglaries per 1,000 students. Other schools that fared worse than Michigan include UCLA, Cal, UNC-Chapel Hill, Stanford, Yale, Columbia, Northwestern, Brown and Penn, all of which had more than 10 burglaries per 1,000 students.</p>
<p>The residence halls are pretty safe - doors are locked 24/7 with video cameras at every door; the rooms to individual rooms lock automatically and require a card and a PIN number to open. Since they put in the cameras and new door locks a couple of years ago, crime in the dorms went way down. Crime off-campus is worse than on-campus – neither is bad really – but again thieves know that students have certain things that are easy to steal – laptops, iPods, football tickets, cash – and are careless about locking doors. You just have to pay attention - and get make sure your laptop is covered by insurance.</p>
<p>hey people…i was just wonderin…when u buy student tickets for football, do u just get 1 ticket for each game for yourself?? its probably a stupid question but i was just wonderin…i missed out on this seasons football games which sucked big time i know and even though many of the big games are away this season i still want to go to them cause u know i just love UM football lol</p>
<p>Crime is insanely low in Ann Arbor. There are a few bad things here and there, like one headline crime per year, but you have to expect that for any town over 500 people.
As for break-ins, they too are rare, see the statistics above, but more importantly, a lot of the time, they aren’t break-ins, they’re GO-ins. People feel so safe here that front doors go unlocked occasionally, and that’s when a lot of thefts happen. And, as someone metioned, it’s easier to steal during move-in, when literally thousands of confused people are all moving in at once (practically on the same day!) And, once more, it is also easier to steal from a co-op or greek house, where dozens of people live, than a 4-person house/apartment.</p>
<p>Anyway mojojojo, Ann Arbor is almost disgustinly crime free. I am a girl, and it has never crossed my mind not to walk home alone, even on a weekend, at night. Well, maybe when I saw drunken rowdy frat boys coming my way, but still that is not “ghetto”…</p>
<p>lol, it’s so funny, kids from Dexter and Saline and Chelsea, we ask them “so what do you do for fun on friday nights in your boring towns” and they go “we go to Ann Arbor”, lol, wannabes</p>