Hyde Park Homicides

In typical Chicago style, a Senegalese graduate student in chemistry was shot and killed yesterday about three-quarters of a block south of my dormitory. In the same night there were two robbings and an assailant who chased a student while shooting after him. Now I know why the swank apartments on 61st-63rd streets are so cheaply priced: discounting for the possibility of death. I may have to rethink my plan of living there and my daily late-night library visits.

Someone else also informed me that on 50th and 61st streets two female bodies were found strangled to death and burned beyond recognition in dumpsters on two occasions last weekend. It's very strange to think that I live my life in state of complete calm and prosperity while people are brutally murdered on a regular basis just blocks away from the invisible boundaries of Hyde Park and the university's sphere of influence.