<p>There are over 20,000 students on campus. If only one (or even a couple) of those is a bad seed, that is a lot better than the world at large. Are you suggesting the boyfriend should have been kicked out of college for drinking at the wrong place/time to get arrested? Have you been to a frat party? I’m sure many of them would have need to have been tasered if they were being arrested.</p>
<p>I’m a girl. I had an incident with an ex boyfriend that involved stalking. I had people walk me around everywhere until it was settled. But random boy students? No. The townies who go around robbing people are more of an issue than the male students. I just got another email about another Corner robbing (these guys had the audacity to go into an unlocked apartment and rob people at gunpoint). Charlottesville is a small city with a pretty high poverty rate and racial divide that is reflected in the public schools.</p>
<p>Most UVA male students are gentlemen who hold doors open and wouldn’t kill someone. But there is the 1 in 4 statistic regarding sexual assault and I believe that one is highly accurate (again, frat parties? But that’s not exclusive – I’m sure a lot of those are people dating or in relationships as well). This applies to all colleges not just UVA. So I would be more worried about that than random murders no one can predict. College is a stressful environment and you don’t know how that will impact someone and you can’t predict that. But you can act safely, not walking around late at night (alone or not) and locking your doors and such, to do as much as you can to prevent things from happening to you – but it’s life, you can’t stop everything bad, it just happens sometimes.</p>
<p>I mean, there are a number of suicides at UVA every year, so technically it is more likely for your daughter to commit suicide here than to be murdered. Or to be in a traffic accident. Or get swine flu. JUST SAYING. I consider it a very safe place if you are not wandering around alone late at night or leaving your door unlocked or running into oncoming traffic without looking, and again you cannot predict life. It’s a lot less likely than at a school in New York City or Philly or Richmond, etc. And there’s a hospital right near by if something does happen.</p>
<p>That is my 2c.</p>