<p>Dear Interesteddad:</p>
<p>My relations went to the University of Chicago. They were robbing students and mugging faculty over thirty years ago. The entire Divinity Department left for Yale after the Dean of that Department had a beating with bats by some blaggards. Today UC has the largest armed campus police department in the country. Why even students were hit up for coin to subsidize the inequalities of social stature. </p>
<p>My friend is a student at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been robbed every year. Her laptop and possessions were taken and her room broken into on campus housing over the last three years. Her family was coerced into having homeowners insurance to cover for such incidences in order to mitigate her expenses. At several schools in NYC students have buttons to push in the stalls of their bathrooms to alert security. Well if you cannot sit down in peace and quiet and do your thing, I guess that answers quite a few questions about the risk associated with safety and of discharging one’s duty.</p>
<p>This is why when i made application to prospective schools safety was a big issue. Taking safety into account would cancel out many an important college, so one reluctantly has to balance safety with prudence towards having a safe experience in making one’s college choices, and how to address potential incidences, and more importantly, how to react to them.</p>
<p>Making inductions as to the robbers’ intent and placing the blame on the student for smoking some drug is a bit of a stretch to say the least and does not excuse the brutal act. </p>
<p>Perhaps you need to revise your defensive views of Swarthmore by de-leveraging the student’s account. Is one guilty until one proves one’s innocence? This is un-American.</p>
<p>Neither daylight nor darkness defers reprehensible acts of violence against one’s person. Only a great civilization with a population manifesting a high social development can deter such behavior. If we continue to encourage the culture to decline, then incivility shall overcome whatever programs are put in place.</p>