20 years or so one of my cousins from Greece was over here checking out colleges to attend, and one of them was Temple. She needed my dad to go pick her up from the campus, and she was shocked to see that he was carrying two .45 ACPs and a .38 when he arrived.
My son toured Temple and applied there, but did not get accepted. Not sure if he would have gone there anyway, but he applied for their engineering degree program and there were limited spots, unlike some of their other majors.
He was considering it because 5 of his close guy friends were (and currently are) going there.
I must admit when I toured the campus with him, I was OK with it and their facilities and academics. While you are within the enclave of the campus, you don't realize where you are and you feel pretty safe. It doesn't even feel like a big city campus.
But venture out a block or two off campus into North Philly and the reality of where you are becomes apparent.
Young kids have an attraction to the city, and they start to ignore the potential danger situations and get over confident and cocky, and that's when it slaps them in the face.