UVA - Shelter in place

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Anonymous wrote:I hate 2025

it has been such a long year

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My kid left town, with a friend and my encouragement.

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Because rumors swirl. One male injured. In critical condition. Neither the suspect nor the victim has any known affiliation with UVA.

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Anonymous wrote:There was a mass shooting just last week at a grocery store in Crozet. Lot of guns out there.

Where do you live that Crozet/Charlottesville inspired this comment? After 4 years in New Haven, Charlottesville has never felt like this to me, even with the recent uptick. It’s among the safest campuses in my DC’s list.

It is actually surprising how much crime there is in Charlottesville for such a small college town. My DDs first year we got constant text alerts from the school. While it wasn’t on campus but around the housing off campus. I just never realized there was gang activity in Charlottesville.

Charlottesville has always had a sketchy element in town. The only time I’ve personally been a victim of a crime was as a student there, despite having lived in several more stereotypically “dangerous” urban areas. People tend to think of it as an idyllic little hamlet where white people drink wine and listen to jam bands on their weekend getaways, but it’s a real city with real working people.

I was never a victim of crime in C’ville, but we didn’t go out on the town often. Stayed in the dorms, hanging with friends. Did this haven in the downtown mall or elsewhere?

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Anonymous wrote:I hate 2025

it has been such a long year

It will get worse.

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I’m so thankful my DD is graduating and my next one to launch chose differently.

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This is a lot. Too many in a short time. Is there an increased security presence on campus? Any concrete steps aiming to reassure? Didn’t expect safety to be as much of a concern here.

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Anonymous wrote:There was a mass shooting just last week at a grocery store in Crozet. Lot of guns out there.

Where do you live that Crozet/Charlottesville inspired this comment? After 4 years in New Haven, Charlottesville has never felt like this to me, even with the recent uptick. It’s among the safest campuses in my DC’s list.

It is actually surprising how much crime there is in Charlottesville for such a small college town. My DDs first year we got constant text alerts from the school. While it wasn’t on campus but around the housing off campus. I just never realized there was gang activity in Charlottesville.

Charlottesville has always had a sketchy element in town. The only time I’ve personally been a victim of a crime was as a student there, despite having lived in several more stereotypically “dangerous” urban areas. People tend to think of it as an idyllic little hamlet where white people drink wine and listen to jam bands on their weekend getaways, but it’s a real city with real working people.

The nice thing about Charlottesville is that it has an economy outside of UVA. So it's not a strictly town or gown place.
And because it has an economic engine, it has all the layers of economic life.
Unfortunately, the many layers of economic life nowadays must feature sociopathic behavior.

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Anonymous wrote:There was a mass shooting just last week at a grocery store in Crozet. Lot of guns out there.

Where do you live that Crozet/Charlottesville inspired this comment? After 4 years in New Haven, Charlottesville has never felt like this to me, even with the recent uptick. It’s among the safest campuses in my DC’s list.

It is actually surprising how much crime there is in Charlottesville for such a small college town. My DDs first year we got constant text alerts from the school. While it wasn’t on campus but around the housing off campus. I just never realized there was gang activity in Charlottesville.

Charlottesville has always had a sketchy element in town. The only time I’ve personally been a victim of a crime was as a student there, despite having lived in several more stereotypically “dangerous” urban areas. People tend to think of it as an idyllic little hamlet where white people drink wine and listen to jam bands on their weekend getaways, but it’s a real city with real working people.

The nice thing about Charlottesville is that it has an economy outside of UVA. So it's not a strictly town or gown place.
And because it has an economic engine, it has all the layers of economic life.
Unfortunately, the many layers of economic life nowadays must feature sociopathic behavior.

It is mostly UVA. Or UVA's hospital.

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Anonymous wrote:There was a mass shooting just last week at a grocery store in Crozet. Lot of guns out there.

Where do you live that Crozet/Charlottesville inspired this comment? After 4 years in New Haven, Charlottesville has never felt like this to me, even with the recent uptick. It’s among the safest campuses in my DC’s list.

It is actually surprising how much crime there is in Charlottesville for such a small college town. My DDs first year we got constant text alerts from the school. While it wasn’t on campus but around the housing off campus. I just never realized there was gang activity in Charlottesville.

Charlottesville has always had a sketchy element in town. The only time I’ve personally been a victim of a crime was as a student there, despite having lived in several more stereotypically “dangerous” urban areas. People tend to think of it as an idyllic little hamlet where white people drink wine and listen to jam bands on their weekend getaways, but it’s a real city with real working people.

The nice thing about Charlottesville is that it has an economy outside of UVA. So it's not a strictly town or gown place.
And because it has an economic engine, it has all the layers of economic life.
Unfortunately, the many layers of economic life nowadays must feature sociopathic behavior.

It is mostly UVA. Or UVA's hospital.

while these are the largest cville employers, it is not “mostly.” A majority are not employed by UVA. More like 15%.

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The news this morning says two men at a church near UVA got in an argument and one stabbed the other.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a lot. Too many in a short time. Is there an increased security presence on campus? Any concrete steps aiming to reassure? Didn’t expect safety to be as much of a concern here.

*Grounds

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The church is currently a PACEM site, so probably more related to that work than UVA: https://pacemshelter.org/get-help/

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Anonymous wrote:This is a lot. Too many in a short time. Is there an increased security presence on campus? Any concrete steps aiming to reassure? Didn’t expect safety to be as much of a concern here.

*Grounds

What a morbid name. Foreshadowing where many students will be by the time they were supposed to graduate (in the ground, dead and buried).

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a lot. Too many in a short time. Is there an increased security presence on campus? Any concrete steps aiming to reassure? Didn’t expect safety to be as much of a concern here.

*Grounds

GMAFB with the lingo and I am a UVA fan. Seriously.