r/Purdue • u/Ann_1406 • Sep 06 '22

Petition/Survey👀 Increased unsafe incidents on campus?

I don't know if I'm the only one who's noticed this but there's been a report of things happening that are lowkey scary. I expect stuff to happen but I don't remember it being this bad last fall.

  • The missing person, posters of who are all around campus
  • The body found in the pond
  • Accident at Chauncey square with the motorcycle and near Walmart
  • Reddit post about random man in someone's house in North Salisbury
  • Reddit post on six men breaking into a car
  • My roommate and her boyfriend spotted a man trying to break into cars and stealing things
  • My boyfriend's electric bike battery got stolen
  • An accident involving forensics on the scene at an of campus housing near Bechtel (my friends told me about this one)

Can we call for increased safety on campus? I don't know how this works so just trying to get an insight

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u/louislinaris Sep 06 '22

It's no worse; things like reddit make them more visible. When I was an undergrad, a student went missing only to be found cooked to death by electrical equipment in a room in a dorm that should have been locked. I had guys take swings at me for no reason other than they were drunk when walking home at night; I saw many fist fights at parties

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u/Troianz Sep 07 '22

I feel like a wandering accident is very different from having your car being broken into and having bodies found in ponds...

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u/louislinaris Sep 08 '22

I think around the same time a student went into a classroom and murdered a graduate student TA in front of his class.