<p>Man, ever since I graduated, I have been getting a ton of these safety massmails saying that there was an armed robbery at such and such a place? I guess they must have heard I left and know I can't bust skulls anymore.</p>
<p>Seriously though, is the police force even attempting to do their job?</p>
<p>I think it’s the profs. They’ve been forced to take furlough days, and they’ve got to pay their bills somehow. Maybe strongarm robbery, or muggings help take up the slack. ;)</p>
<p>I have seen the same thing breaking out In Madison and other college towns. My theory is that these towns have attracted more poor people for a number of reasons from better schools to better benefits and housing. Unfortunately they also bring some of their old habits which include crime. Students are soft targets carrying lots of high dollar stuff and cradit cards/cash. The results are predictable.</p>
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<p>Where on earth did you go to school? Haha. When I was an undergrad (and still today as a grad student) I walked around with maybe $1-$5 on my wallet, if that, and the most valuable thing on me was my books and calculator. That is about it. None of those have a good resale value.</p>
<p>Most kids today have a nice laptop pref Apple over $1000, good phone such as Iphone or Crackberry, Ipod, a few credit cardss, at least some cash. Where on earth do you go to school today? I visit a midwest state flagship all the time and this is what I see most students have. So many that they are closing computer labs due to lack of use as 90% have their own today–usually a nice laptop they take everywhere.</p>
<p>I have an iPhone now, but I didn’t in undergrad. Didn’t bother to carry my iPod around, didn’t have a laptop… I was the epitome of a broke college student.</p>
<p>Now I carry my iPhone, no cash, books and a calculator, so I am worth about an extra $100 to a potential robber.</p>
<p>You are the oddball then. At your typically wealthier top state U the numbers are even higher.</p>
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<p>Well, I mean, I owned a computer, I just opted for a desktop so that it could actually run big matlab simulations at a reasonable speed or CAD programs fluently. I always figured that a laptop would be nice, but I can get so much more bang for my buck if I did a desktop and just used the computer lab to do stuff on campus. At least in the Mechanical Engineering Department at UIUC, our labs were ALWAYS packed with the exception of weekend mornings.</p>