<p>Yale is NOT that separate from the rest of New Haven, though. Nothing like Cornell’s set off. Or even Columbia’s. Major New Haven street run right through the campus, and New Haven people walk to and fro across it all the time. It’s an urban setting. Not as crowded as NYU or Harvard, because New Haven is smaller, and Yale is sprawlier.</p>
<p>The real dangers in life aren’t street crime around Yale. Lots of people I knew at Yale (and I, too) had petty stuff stolen from their rooms, or got hustled for money on the street; a few actually got mugged. Two women I knew were serious crime victims while we were students there. One was murdered by her Yale-student ex-boyfriend. The other was on a camping trip with friends in the Blue Ridge Mountains when she and others were raped, maimed, and left for dead by a local psycho.</p>