<p>who cares what time of day they happened? loyola is located next to tulane. the truth in this matter is that this is very disturbing and i would never send my child to tulane. a year old or not, its obvious these statistics show how dangerous tulane is. many locals prey on the wealthy, white, tulane students</p>
<p>Forget this Tulane hater. See my post in the other thread.</p>
<p>You misunderstand, jayhawk. That second sentence about the time of day and location was directly from the website. More important is the true location of incidents as to the true proximity to campus and a more current list of incidents rather than one a year to two old. Yes there was a rapist near campus last year and that was horrible. Fortunately they caught him within a few weeks. But it was awful-- totally agree.</p>
<p>OK, there is something weird here. Either someone has hijacked jayhawk’s name, or he and Tulane had a falling out. If you do a search on his name and Tulane, in Nov. 2007 there was this <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/tulane-university/407063-so-how-do-you-like-tulane-so-far.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/tulane-university/407063-so-how-do-you-like-tulane-so-far.html</a></p>
<p>and this <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/tulane-university/381570-tulane-newsweek-hottest-25-a.html#post4564925[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/tulane-university/381570-tulane-newsweek-hottest-25-a.html#post4564925</a> and some others. What happened, jayhawk? Give us the real story.</p>
<p>Well, hopefully Jay is just going through a rough patch with his/her sense of safety. I’ll give him/her the benefit of the doubt that they are now just a little freaked out by some incident and not so much that they just want to disparage the school. </p>
<p>For what it’s worth, I lived in uptown New Orleans for nearly 20 years with only one crime happening to me, my car was broken into. That was literally the only crime committed against me while I lived there. I just moved to Philadelphia a couple of weeks ago and into a really nice area. I have already had my car broken into. </p>
<p>I’m not letting it affect my opinion of Philadelphia though. Now, if I had been mugged or assaulted I would have had a much more difficult time not letting it get to me, but I digress. I hope you can move past whatever freaked you out.</p>
<p>Cities are what they are, highly concentrated areas of people. You have to take the good with the bad… and that includes the people. The new DA and Mayor are really working on getting New Orleans safer. My wife and I will probably be moving back there in 3 years or so and we’re confident it will be to a safer city.</p>
<p>I agree with you Ben, New Orleans is absolutely changing for the better. I have to say the vibe I felt there recently seems better than in the past, and like you I have high hopes for Mayor Landrieu and the others.</p>
<p>I would say that crime around Tulane is no worse, and perhaps better, than many other urban universities. The crime rate around UChicago is not good, nor is it at Penn, Yale, or Columbia. One has to be alert and be careful. I hope S2 is careful and I have concerns about his safety just as I had about S1 at UChicago, yet I don’t want him to have unreasonable fears and I hope he does take advantage of the city. He has not been sheltered. He attended high school in a challenging neighborhood where kids were shot and killed and others robbed. This did not keep him from having a full and happy high school experience (even though his iPhone was stolen in front of the school). I expect him to have an equally good college experience.</p>
<p>Common sense helps, as I explained in another thread, but I would personally recommend staying on campus if you’re student is a female. Life is life, and women have much more to lose than a man does (although yes, there are situations where men can also be taken advantage of.) For me, it’s not worth the risk, as small as it is. Others might see this differently.</p>
<p>I’d also recommend not living off campus if you’re carrying around any high priced equipment for sports/orchestra/band at night. Many Riley sports get out rather late, if you’re involved, as well as several musical groups. You don’t want to be walking around at night with those things. (Or at least I wouldn’t.) You’re much more likely to be “held up” for objects than attacked, but I can’t recall any muggings happening before the wee hours of the morning–expect a really unusual one a good five streets down from campus at 10:30AM. Still.</p>
<p>I think, aside from the implication of a rape, a male has just as much to lose (wallet, phone, money, etc) as a female, and no one wants to be staring down the barrel of a weapon, male or female.</p>
<p>There is a lot to be said for the freedom, flexibility, growth and responsibility learned by living off campus. To be honest, I didn’t want older s to live off campus at his school (they did it sophomore year) but it turned out to be a good experience. And he lived in a “gentrifying” part of Houston, not walking distance to campus. There isn’t enough on-campus housing for upper classmen at Tulane at this point, so many students will not have the option to live on campus as juniors/seniors, true?</p>
<p>Yes, true. In the final analysis, at this point in time as far as I know, Tulane has about 3,800-3,900 beds. After the new dorm is finished I guess that will be a bit north of 4,100-4,200. I might be off a bit either way, but close. Now even taking into account some number of people studying abroad, at 5,800-5,900 full time undergrads, clearly some number must live off campus. Of course some significant number want to.</p>
<p>Most schools, I believe TU included, have a seniority or ranking system as part of their on campus housing process. While some student may get guaranteed housing associated with, for example, a position like TEMS (don’t know if this is true, I am just using is as an example) the availability of on campus housing for upper classmen is usually less than the number of matriculated upper classmen. As FC said, many prefer to live off campus. This seems to vary by school. My older s lived off campus his soph year, but not by choice. He and his roommates all returned to their res college for jr and sr yr, and this was the norm, not the exception for most students there. At that school, most prefer to live on campus. At many other schools, upper classmen living on campus is a significant minority of the class. I am guessing if the new upper classmen dorms being built are more apartment-style, with kitchens etc, like Aron (I believe), there might be a greater desire to live on campus. My s commented that he wouldnt mind being back on campus, but is growing tired of Bruff food.</p>