robbery of student at gunpoint; another at knifepoint

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<p>from the harvard crimson yesterday, an article entitled "Pfoho Male Held at Gunpoint Near Quad"</p>

<p>Pfoho</a> Male Held at Gunpoint Near Quad | News | The Harvard Crimson</p>

<p>in both incidents, the victims were students; the robberies happened at 10:30 and 10:50 pm. </p>

<p>from the article: "House Masters Nicholas A. Christakis and Erika L. Christakis ’86 sent an email to Pforzheimer residents about the incident. In the email, they wrote that HUPD has increased the presence of security guards on campus. 'As we’ve seen from the Kirkland shooting, no part of the campus is immune to this sort of thing,' Nicholas Christakis said in an interview Tuesday night. He has been in contact with the other Quad House Masters to discuss whether the Quad is particularly vulnerable to this type of crime. 'It’s hard to know whether [the Quad] is slightly less trafficked or not,' he said. The College is working with HUPD to determine if there are any responses Quad Masters and students can take, Nicholas Christakis said."</p>

<p>this on the heels of the recent conviction of the guy who shot a drug dealer inside Kirkland House two years ago.</p>

<p>it's clear that you have to take common sense precautions when going to city schools.</p>

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<p>Yup. In the space of seven days, two students (out of 21,000 – one of the victims was a graduate student) were mugged, at locations about a mile apart. Neither was hurt. One of the muggers – the one with a gun – was caught within minutes.</p>

<p>This just isn’t a big deal. Harvard is in a city. Stuff like this is going to happen. If this is as bad as things get – if this is bad enough to write newspaper stories about – then things are pretty darn good.</p>

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<p>There were similar situations earlier in the year as well, but those didn’t involved undergrad students. Not unusual at all seeing that Harvard is situated in urban area and has over 6000 undergrads all wandering around the various parts of the campus (as well as outside of campus) at the same time. I don’t know how they can possibly further increase the presence of security though, because I literally seeing security personnels everywhere.</p>

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<p>Lesson: Quad sucks
Solution: transfer to a River House</p>

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<p>And, chillin’ at #279, this:
<a href=“http://os.cqpress.com/citycrime/2010/City_crime_rate_2010-2011_hightolow.pdf[/url]”>http://os.cqpress.com/citycrime/2010/City_crime_rate_2010-2011_hightolow.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Especially compared to Yale/New Haven. My mother was freaking out that Harvard was getting “so much more dangerous lately” and that “well, New Haven’s been gentrifying,” and concluded that I was in the much more dangerous place. There was a crime spree around campus just before Harvard-Yale, so I was wondering if she was right; anecdotally, my Yale friends were all “wait, that counts as a crime spree”? And then the statistical perspective came out: so yeah, we’re in more danger from crime than we would be at, say, Dartmouth. But it still really isn’t that bad.</p>

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<p>New Haven is horrible. Been there, and it’s literally a ghetto. In the 20 minutes I spent walking in near proximity to the campus, I managed to be called taunting remarks by a random hobo and shocked by the sketchiness. A few robberies per semester make a buzz here, but a quick look at Yale Daily reveals that shootings and arrests are to be expected in New Haven very frequently.</p>

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<p>Not to be down on Harvard, but taunting remarks happen in Cambridge, too.</p>

<p>I also happened to be wearing knee-high rainbow striped socks with a formal dress that day, so I get where they were coming from. (It was complicated.)</p>