“Personally, I have never had any issues with public safety, and I do feel safe on campus. In regards to the sexual assault, I do think it’s very unfortunate, but I think public safety is trying to do their best to keep us safe and I believe NSU is a safe place,” said Morgan Gesty, freshman criminal justice major.
“I’m a big dude so I feel pretty safe on campus, but in terms of public safety doing their job, I feel they’re kind of shoddy. Sometimes they don’t really do their job. I’ve definitely seen them write tickets for things that don’t make sense. I just feel like they’re focused on the wrong things. They definitely need some redirection and focus on actual issues, like they need to be tighter about who they let on campus. I’m not saying guard gates, but more so more check points; you have to scan in to get into certain buildings, parking lots, pretty much what we have now but tighter. For example, my Shark ID still works for the dorms, and I haven’t lived here for two years, so security stuff like that is important,” said Robert Minott, junior accounting major.
“I feel like the fact that public safety sends us emails about things like sexual assault is really good because we should all know what’s going on, on campus, especially for women. If these things are happening where we live then we should be careful and we shouldn’t be like, ‘Ok nothing’s going to happen here because I’m inside campus,’ because things can still happen everywhere. The fact that they tell us what’s happening keeps us safe in a way because we are more aware of keeping ourselves safe. I feel like we should never be alone on campus at night, because it’s still dangerous. Anyone can come in and do something like this, I hate it and I hate that it’s like this, but it is what it is,” said Abril Chao, freshman pre-med biology major.
