Chamique Holdsclaw shot a gun into her former girlfriend's car just blocks off the Georgia Tech campus.
The neighborhoods around the Tech campus are notorious for the high crime rate, but campus itself is by and large exceptionally safe. Obviously, there will still be stolen property, fist fights, property damage, etc. But violent crime, such as armed robbery, etc., is very rare directly on campus. It does happen, but usually by "outsiders" walking through campus looking for targets. Sexual assault is, unfortunately, far higher than it should be on college campuses and is often committed by a fellow student.
My husband once commented that the violent crime rates are often significantly higher just off college campuses. Especially the neighborhoods just off campus proper where many students live. And his observation makes sense in that most campuses do not allow students to posses guns in their dorm rooms or carry them on campus. So when you have students walking from their apartment to campus with laptops, iPhones, tablets, cash in their wallets, etc., thugs know they aren't armed so they are easy pickings for mugging and robbery - armed or otherwise.
