I still remember the last sentence my parents said to me as I was about to board the plane leaving China for America: “take care of yourself and stay safe”. However, the experience of riding the campus bus for the first time was not at all safe. Being a new international student, I arrived on campus a week before classes started, so there were actually very few people on the bus headed to the market around 2pm when I got on. After I sat down, a black woman moved from her original seat to my seat on the left. A couple minutes passed, she started talking to me, asking me where I was going, and I told her I was going to Best Buy. Then she excitedly told me that I had to get off the bus after two more stops, which makes me think she's really kind and nice. After chatting with each other for a few minutes, she suddenly came closer to me and whispered, “Do you think you can help me with a couple of dollars?” I was scared and terrified. Luckily that's when my stop came, so I ran off the bus feeling like I was going to get robbed and beaten by that black woman. I had never experienced this type of “lending” of money before, which is why this event left such a deep impression on me. This is when the question “how safe is the campus?” came to mind for the first time. Because I am concerned about campus safety, the Police Chief's office sent an email regarding an aggravated robbery through the crime alert system to my university email address. Along with this email are two links to videos of the crime captured by one of the security cameras. It was a bright afternoon on October 10, 2011, around 4.19pm, the victim was sitting at a table in front of The Espresso Royale...... half of the paper...... visionary conclusions I made, emerged some new questions I have yet to answer. For example, how many crimes were committed on campus in a year? Are the victims mostly university students? What is the criminal arrest rate? Did the University allow students to own firearms? Works Cited1. http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=BH8I-aTfiDM, found October 11, 2011 via email sent from the Police Chief's office.2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H6BgWecVWE, found October 11, 2011 via email sent from the Police Chief's office.3. http://dps.illinois.edu/universitypolice/crimeprevention.html, found on October 22, 2011 on the official website of the Division of Public Safety.4 .http://dps.illinois.edu/universitypolice/personalsafetytips.html, found on October 23, 2011 on the official website of the Public Safety Division.