MY brother went to U Chi. At the freshman orientation all the students were given old fashioned (Ok, they are old fashioned now, at that time they were mid-level tech!) police whistles.
They were instructed to have these with them at all times, and if they got into a bad situation they were to blow their whistle, and if they heard another person’s whistle they should blow their’s also.
Considering this was the 1970s it seemed like kind of a weak response to crime.
I’ll never understand why so many excellent schools are in such bad and dangerous neighborhoods.
Can anyone explain that to me?
The neighborhoods deteriorate, I suppose. Why would anyone plunk down a university into a blighted ghetto?
I’m going to guess the neighborhood wasn’t bad when the college was built, but that produces the question of why did the neighborhood around the college go down.
Can anyone explain that to me?...The ghetto moves to the Institution. Ripe pickin’s for those liberal drugged up kids and pie-in-the-sky liberal employees. The original homeowners die off, move or lose their jobs and ‘investors’ move in. Why sell a full house for $100,000 when you can rent to students at 1,00 a month and let them destroy the property over the years until the property is declared Section VIII and the government guarantees and pays the rent. THIS is the epitome of PROGRESSIVISM.
As blacks moved up from the South for jobs during WWI and WWI they settled on the South Side of Chicago which of course is where the University of Chicago is located.
I also went there in the early 70’s and mid 80’s.
I went to U of Chicago in 1963.
First instruction: ALWAYS keep a $10 bill in your pocket.
I said , WHY?
Answer: To give a MUGGER.
I said: WHY?
Answer: You don’t want to make him MAD!!
It is the same essentially as alligators massing for a river crossing of antelopes, or termites building their nests in and around rotting wood.