A sense of safety shatters at colleges

By Peter Schworm

"The crimes have been stacking up all year: A Wesleyan University student gunned down at a bookstore cafe, a student at Spelman College felled by a stray bullet, a suspected drug dealer shot to death in a Harvard residence hall. In just the short time since the fall semester began, a Yale graduate student was strangled and a UCLA student was repeatedly stabbed in a chemistry lab."

"A nationwide run of campus slayings, extended early Sunday by the killing of University of Connecticut football player Jasper Howard, has shaken a sense of security colleges have long taken for granted, and underscored the mounting challenges they face in keeping students safe. ..."

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