Is it really that dangerous?

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<p>To quote myself from one of the numerous thread’s on safety at USC: </p>

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The eternal anti-USC thread</p>

<p>The area around USC was a popular spot for the wealthy in the early part of the 20th century, and it has the housing stock to prove it. There are a large number of beautiful Victorians many of which are being renovated. I do remember seeing one on HGTV. I suspect the current housing market will set that trend back, but the neighborhood around USC, while hardly Westwood, is not the battleground that some would make it out to be. It’s basically a working class Hispanic neighborhood with a large number of students intermixed. I believe that it is destined to gentrify regardless of what USC does or doesn’t do.</p>

<p>College students, wherever they go to school, need to be careful. They have things that bad people want, and generally like many young people, they tend to be very blase about their own personal safety. It’s the “I’m 19; I’ll live forever; nothing can harm me” syndrome. It makes young people drive too fast; drink too much; use illegal substances; and take sexual risks.

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