<p>Just want to emphasize that practically none of Chicago’s violence occurs where the college is. The Austin Hudson-LePore situation is tragic, and so is the epidemic of violence in some of Chicago’s poorest neighborhoods, but those two tragedies seem to have nothing to do with one another.</p>
<p>No one should think that the Chicago campus is nursery-safe. No college campus is, even the cushiest suburban or rural ones. But kids at Chicago are no more at risk than kids at Harvard or Brown (which has also had its missing-student tragedy recently).</p>