Over the past couple of months, Wittenberg has seen more (public) criminal activity than I've seen in the two (soon to be two and a half) years that I've been here. With 4 sexual assault issues on behalf of the students and now a case involving a professor, students are buzzing with talk about what has happened to our dear old Witt.
One comment on a facebook status even said that everything has gone to "Shittenberg" and that this year in particular just seems to be a bad one.
"Everyone is just so out of control", my roommate commented after reading the Springfield News Sun article regarding Prof. Adrian.
There was a chance that Adrian would have been my French professor last year had I not received Prof. Wilkerson instead, but I do know students who took his classes. This in itself is scary because it means that people I know could have been in danger and not even have known it. And while partying on campus has always been a major part of the weekend at Witt, friends have become far more cautious about going out as well. I think students have begun to realize that anyone can be a victim to sexual assault crimes, and that these sorts of problems exist within our precious Wittenberg Bubble.
-Fran
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