<p>maybe there aren’t more posts on CC forum because students are either </p>
<p>a.too busy studying
b.too busy with athletics, community service, other extracurriculars
c.too busy having fun (something DocT needs a little more of maybe?)
or
d. some combo of above items</p>
<p>Seriously, didn’t observed apathy there at all (quite the opposite). Not sure what that was about. Kids seemed engaged, enthusiastic, and happy when we toured. Beautiful campus, great academics, nice athletics (baseball #1 in DIII last year and squash, as well as others), great internship opps in Hartford and excellent study abroad programs.</p>
<p>Trinity is in a very bad area and Hartford residents and campus officials know it is not going to get better anytime soon. Campus Safety, especially for women, is an issue. I grew up in Hartford and have two graduates in the family. In the last 20 years, crime has gotten worse in Hartford. This has occured as the once powerful business community has diminished and poverty has increased. The local neighborhood was once anchored by a strong Italian American community which has long since moved into Wethersfield and other safer suburban locations. This winter my daughter, a rising high school senior, and I met with a family friend and Trinity professsor who said privately that he would have concerns about safety if his daughter was attending the college. He said a student was raped on the campus last year at 5 am. I haven’t been able to confirm that, but my relatives who still live in the area say the surrounding campus neighborhood has seen in increase in crime. My daughter loved Trinity–but I’m not sure I could sleep at night if my daughter lived on that campus.</p>
<p>^^I’m pretty sure the Italians moved out of the neighborhoods around Trinity about a half-century ago, not twenty years ago. And, the decline in the downtown Hartford business community has nothing to do with Trinity (although, it may impact it indirectly in terms of city services.) Trinity moved away from downtown Hartford approximately 110 years ago.</p>