Annalise Castro

Senior

“You don’t really think it’s something that will affect us in a relatively small town in Iowa, but the last shooting that just happened on the corner of College and Linn. We live on the corner of that street, so yes I am worried about it.”

Allison Clements

Senior

“It has not happened in the past four years, and it has now happened twice within one semester, once downtown and once near downtown, but I do say that the response time of the university, whether it be through university police or Iowa City police, has been good.”

Derek Brown

Freshman

“I’ve never felt unsafe on the campus, and I’ve never had to think too much about it. But it does surprise me that it has happened, and I think because it’s happened that it’s something that we should think about a little more and have to look at that, because we want to keep our campus safe.”

Greer Simpson

Senior

“I am personally very worried about gun violence, especially in Iowa City just because although it is a small college campus in a small city, there hasn’t been gun violence in the last four years that I’ve been here. Especially because it’s all been within 20, 30 steps of my apartment, which worries me, and it’s been a recurring thing.”

Alysen Suarez

Sophomore

“I’m really scared about this gun violence thing,  just because if it can happen here in such a small town, it can happen anywhere, and I’m from a small suburb of Chicago. So you never know, that if it can happen here, it can happen there, too.”