Students leave two of the Core Value flags in front of Founders Hall after taking them down from the quad.
Person on the Street: Do you feel safe on campus?
Contributing writer, Jenny Carratello, takes to the streets to pose the question to the Guilford campus community, “Do you feel safe?”

Heather Hayton
Professor of English, Director of Honors Program “I feel safe, but that’s because I have the privilege of being cisgender, white and old. “This morning in my class, I opened it up to students to talk about how they felt. And I remember how it was to be a student on a college campus in the ’80s and being sexually assaulted on campus and having administration encourage me to drop it and move ...

James Shields
Director of the Bonner Center for Community Service & Learning “Do I feel safe? Physically, yeah. Otherwise, not so much.”

Troy Taylor
Sophomore Major: Music “I still feel safe, but I feel like I need to be more conscious, more aware of my surroundings.”

Hiroka Shimoji
Junior Major: English “No. I could hear a noise. I thought somebody came into my dorm, but at the same time, I didn’t know what was happening there. More uncomfortable, it is. And them yelling and being so loud for some time, and Public Safety didn’t come. I don’t know.”

Annika Norris
First-Year Major: English “Yes and no. I don’t know. I feel like based on who was unfortunately sexually assaulted, I don’t feel personally attacked. I feel attacked on behalf of all of my friends and on behalf of all marginalized people in this school.”

Nina Perez
First-Year Major: Undecided “I feel pretty safe on campus. I think it was just a lot of anger yesterday.”
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