It was and still is a good school for the sons and daughters of blue collar people who may be the first of their family to atten college.
I don't think they can do that any more (tuition alone is about $25k) but the quality is well worth it.
This round of violence is very distubing and disheartening. I do not think it will continue without a backlash, given the ethnic makeup of the city.
I’m really surprised we haven’t had another “Bernie Goetz” event given the number of cases of black-on-white apparently racialist crime we have seen in the last few years.