” ... walking alone after dark isn’t smart no matter who you are.”
She’s on a college campus! She absolutely should be able to walk safely alone at night. Students always use the library, go to classes and meetings, social gatherings, etc. at night on campus and have every right to assume they are safe. There are incidents, but they are and should be rare, especially in a small, upstate NY town and on a campus pretty much isolated from the town itself. This campus is not in the middle of NY or Chicago or Philadelphia or DC.
Nowhere did I see her asking to have a low profile. Obviously she knows she’s somewhat well known on campus. She referred to prior events of being attacked verbally, but not attacked physically and thrown to the ground because some sore loser didn’t like the outcome of an election that her guy won.
She can ASSUME any thing she wants; but facts PROVE that there is a chance; however small; that she is NOT 'safe'.
Therefore; a well 'educated' person would take some kind of tangible step(s) to increase her odds of being 'safe'!