<p>I’ve never felt unsafe in my time at Duke, but the crimes of the past week have unnerved me somewhat. The campus proper is quite safe – I don’t worry about walking around at any hour of the day or night, and I don’t think other students do either.</p>
<p>Durham, on the other hand, is frightening. Students are taught early on – and for good reason – not even to walk to Ninth Street by themselves. I’m not sure if the blame falls to Duke or Durham (though I suspect the latter), but either way, the situation is becoming unacceptable. Durham wonders why students tend to stay within the “Duke Bubble”: much of it, of course, is that we have everything we need on campus and Durham isn’t much of a college town. A big part of it, though, is that Durham, even a few blocks from campus, is unsafe. Nobody should have to deal with that.</p>