Current UMD Student Open for Questions

maryversity
Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:25:59 +0000

Honestly, I don’t think ANY school anywhere is completely safe!!!

I attended UMCP years ago and always knew never to walk alone, and I think it was a lot more seedy then than it is now. There are definitely more safety measures now than in my day. However, the majority of problems occur off campus. I never felt unsafe on campus, but still adhered to the rule of having someone walk with me wherever I went somewhere after sunset.

The schools that tout being in “safe” areas are, in my mind, at greater risk because they have their guards down.

Absolutely, it IS disconcerting to hear of these kinds of incidents as a parent (I have a freshman there now), and I have mixed feelings about having signed up for the text “alerts” directly to my phone (I am OOS also). However, the fact that a system exists to instantly alert students so quickly about anything is actually a good thing.