<p>Of course. This is a one-off incident. Although it’s terrible and very sad, it cannot be used as an effective argument for regarding the campus or Yale as a whole, unsafe. It’s unfortunate events such as this that cause fear for the same reason that people are afraid of flying in case of a plane crash - what I mean is, when a plane does crash, the results are tragic, and in that case of isolation, everyone hears about it. But statistically it’s still the safest form of travel. What I’m trying to say is that while tragedy of Ms Le’s death seems like a grand widespread crime, in terms of the scale of Yale and all the students, it’s still an isolated incident.</p>
<p>We also still don’t know the circumstances behind the murder. I also just looked up details to see something about the other murder you mentioned as I hadn’t heard about it before, according to the couple of news sources I looked at, it took place just outside the campus.</p>
<p>In terms of crime rates in cities compared to campus community environments I think we can still regard Yale as safe. As long as students stay vigilant and exercise caution where necessary - ie don’t walk alone in the dark then I don’t believe there’s any cause for any action as drastic as not attending the university.</p>
<p>My thoughts and prayers go out to Annie Le and her family.</p>