Eloi Vasquez, a UC Berkeley student, went to a USC party, and was found dead in a car accident near the campus apparently. I do not know the specifics, so please do not get mad. I’m just more nervous about the surrounding area of USC.
After the tragic death of the two USC students couple years back, does anyone know what has been done by USC officials and local gov’t to reduce the crime rate and increase safety? And has it worked?
Thank you
From what the news is reporting here in the Bay Area, it was a tragic accident, completely unrelated to criminal activity. It would appear that it had nothing to do with the surrounding area of USC.
@jhuff11, in all of the articles I read, nothing indicated that this tragedy is a crime. Where did you read that it is? The accident occurred a couple miles from campus after the student left a frat party to “walk to the beach” many miles away. After making a frantic phone call that he was lost, the student was hit trying to cross the freeway on foot. I’m curious about what you heard differently.
@CCMThreeTimes i have just read some speculation that it could be a hit and run. but even if the official word is no, idk what the veracity of that is
Even if it was a hit and run, that is no indication of criminal activity around USC. The I-10 has about 7-8 lanes in each direction around there, and is pure chaos 24/7. LA is a big city and people die there every day from many causes. You have every right to be concerned with safety around USC but this incident is irrelevant to that.
The guy was probably high as a kite if he walked on the freeway.
A car accident near a city at 2:30 in the morning after a guy who was believed to be drinking who was running across a highway?! Wow. I can’t believe that this wasn’t prevented by actions taken by a nearby college. (sarcasm font)
People were saying his behavior was pretty crazy that night. It sounded like the guy was under the influence of something a lot stronger than alcohol.
Campus crime is a national problem. It occurs in both urban and rural colleges/universities. USC is one of many universities located in an urban area. Univ. of Chicago, Columbia, NYU, Tulane, USF, UMiami, Penn., MIT,Georgetown, Boston College and Boston University are all located in large cities. Should these institutions be blamed if crimes happen two or three miles away from campus?
Already in 2015 there are news reports of violent crimes on campuses across the USA. There was a violent death in a campus dorm at small Millersville University in PA, three students were shot to death near UNC, Miami of Ohio had a student shot to death and UNC-Wilmington had students found dead. A student was shot to death in Athens, GA during an alleged drug transaction right off campus. These are just a few examples from the start of the second semester.
These are tragedies. Campus administrators are working to make campuses safer, but it appears college campus violent crime is still found across the country.
Bringing up horrible events at other universities does not make USC sound better to new admits, awful attempt. There was no crime, the driver stopped and was not at fault. This is a horrible event and a tragedy related to partying at the TKE frat at USC.
Yes, he was partying at a frat, and so it was technically related. But did he also party at his friend’s house prior to that?
Weird thread where some people make this a USC related issue when there is only a tenuous linkage to USC at all.
Jhuff is a regular UCLA poster. I’d ask that she follow her advice and pray for the family, and that students at UCLA and elsewhere be careful when partying in unfamiliar territory.
Well, a Rutgers student stabbed another one in the neck, after both dropped acid. The victim was recovering, but the downside was that the police found a humongous stash of drugs ready to sell. Advice is not to try your product when you are in business.
Facts show that Stanford has more crime than USC – I know, hard to believe, but there you go.
I’m not here bashing USC. You would think if I were, I would be criticizing its officials and safety procedures.
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I know, I know, I am “just asking questions”. You are linking a death of a guy who ran into a highway at 2;30 am and got killed to questions about USC safety just because he happened to be at a party. Why not link it to UCB and their alcohol education programs?
You are funny.
You are also very transparent.
She’s not behaving like the religious person she professes to be on the UCLA board, how sad.
Agreed. But what is really sad here (not just this USC forum) is that the site really is intended (I think?) for potential college students who are trying to get some valid insights, info, coaching. Instead they more often can find things that have such a obvious negative bias and spin. Hopefully they have enough perspective to know how to filter these things, but then again it is a highly emotional and stressful time for them.
I’m all for friendly smack talk between rival colleges, but using a tragic accident on a freeway two miles from campus to suggest a crime was committed, that USC was somehow responsible and that the area contributed to his death is not only factually unsupported, speculative and grossly inaccurate, but a shameful and desperate attempt to leverage the young man’s death to steer potential students away from USC. The OP’s malevolence undermines her purported religious faith.
It undermines more that that. It undermines basic human decency and the spirit of trying to help students during this exceptionally challenging time in their lives.