<p>I agree this could happen at any college. However, calling Yale “close knit” is a stretch. I went to Yale, I didn’t know people in other majors for the most part unless they were in my residential college. I certainkly didn’t know a fraction of the graduate students, especially those in the medical school or other graduate schools that were not nera me.</p>
<p>It is not a small, self-contained campus like Princeton. You walk around New Haven, mixing it up with everyone. On the other hand, it’s a great school.</p>
<p>I think one reason this story got so much publicity is because of the the circumstances - the student was missing and there was a search…and it continues since the murderer hasn’t been found.</p>
<p>If it had been “student killed in parking lot by ex-boyfriend” it probably would have been in the paper once and that was that.</p>