2nd Yale Student Dead: Can Connecticut Schools Keep Your Child Safe?

Both the Universityof Connecticut and Yale University have experienced horrible deaths this semester. The first, Annie Le, a California graduate, was brutual murdered and stuffed in a wall in a campus labratory. Then one of UConn's star athletes, Jasper T. Howard (affectionately "Jazz") was stabbed to death in front of the Student Union after a homecoming party.

Just to be clear, I am not making light of the deaths of these two young students. But I am endeavoring to shed light on a scarcely talked about topic: the safety of Connecticut schools.

This sad and undeniable fact comes on the heels of yet another death at Yale University, one of the country's top two Ivy League schools. 19-year-old Andre Narcisse, a sophomore, was found dead in his dorm room late Sunday morning. Reportedly, roommates found him unresponsive and called emergencies personnel.

Almost every kid in the country dreams of being accepted to Yale. But after this fall's dreary turn of events, who would actually want to go?

Has Yale become unsafe for would-be students? Are the intellectual minds of the young safe in New Haven, Connecticut. As a student at Howard Univerisy in DC we spoke at length about safety and the role of campus police--especially after a student was chased into a dorm and sexual assaulted in the bathroom, and after another student was shot and killed just blocks away from the main campus.

I seems to me the officials at Yale are not having this discussion. Campus safety is first.

All else is secondary.