Posted on 08/22/2012 7:19:05 AM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
RICHMOND, Va. -- Police were searching this morning for a group of about 15 young men believed to have committed an assault and a violent robbery in rapid succession on Virginia Commonwealth University's main academic campus in downtown Richmond. Neither victim was seriously injured in the two attacks, which occurred along Shafer Street on the Monroe Park campus about 2:55 a.m. VCU and Richmond police described the assailants as a group of 15 black males between the ages of 17 and 22.
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A major part of the orientation presentation is about the dangers of living in a city. It was almost an hour long. They have multiple brochures they hand out. One we were looking at last night has a chart showing when it is dangerous to be out walking, in pie-chart form — midnight to 6am was the “are you kidding me” part of the chart (not literally, just said something like “extremely dangerous”.
As I said in another post, the school has free escort service for people who have to be out at night. They definitely make sure the kids understand that the big city is a REALLY dangerous place, not at all like what you see on TV shows.
I was there in the 1990s and man, I don’t remember folks being THAT brazen. Yeah, things are getting worse in Richmond.
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Probably a fair assessment PowderMonkey and closer to actual percentages than my figures.
I graduated VCU in 1982, lived at various times from 1978 - 1983 on 1500 block of Grove, 1100 block of W. Grace and at Franklin Towers on W. Franklin.
Sure, there was petty crime/theft as on any campus but I never once found a reason to have to be armed at VCU.
Maybe you have confused VCU with VUU?
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I graduated VCU in 1982 and I moved to Stamford, CT in 1983.
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That’s nice if you want to make fear a control factor, something to chip away at the core of American freedom.
I meant a list of campuses that do not infringe on the Second Amendment nor the individual’s liberty because of a cretin criminal class.
We are degenerating into accepting the mindset of the good guys control the day but the criminals/commies/psychopaths own the night.
Vietnam revisited and that’s not even right.
Maybe you have confused VCU with VUU?
As you probably know I post with my real name. I graduated School of Business. Even though VCU was a big university at the time, we may have met.
No, I didn't or don't confuse Virginia Union with VCU. I go virtually everywhere that I can armed. Sure, rarely was there a violent or major crime on campus (although there were). But Broad St. was right there, and Church Hill was not far away.
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Close but no cigar, eh? I remember when we were such a splash in the Sun-Belt Conference in '81.
As you probably know I post with my real name. I graduated School of Business. Even though VCU was a big university at the time, we may have met.
I was a biology and chemistry double major at the time, so you guys were across Main Street from us. My GF at the time graduated in your class of 1983 with a BA in Marketing. More likely that you would have known her than me.
I worked at the time for E.R. Carpenter Company on "Southside," directly for Stan Pauley, for whom the new business school building is named. Worked all day and went to school at night. Certainly what VCU was/is known for.
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True. Since I was a Vet, I worked at McGuire, and the G.I. Bill to pay my way.
Shaka Smart might get us a NCAA title the way J.D. Barnett couldn't.
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