Over the years, some people have suggested that Johns Hopkins was a threat in one form or another to the city. I’ve always thought that the city was an existential threat to Hopkins (“Arrest made in attempted rape on Johns Hopkins campus, police say,” Oct. 22).
I can think of three murders of Hopkins students over the years. Bridget Phillips was a 22-year-old graduate student in Byzantine and medieval history found bludgeoned to death in her North Calvert Street apartment. Christopher Elser, a junior undergraduate, was stabbed to death around 6 a.m. during a burglary at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house. Linda Trinh, a 21-year-old senior biomedical engineering major, was found dead in her Charles Apartments building across the street from the Eisenhower library and the open grassy lawn area known as the Beach.
That the school, as reported in your article, needs to spend tens of millions each year for over 1,000 security personnel says it all. Parents are already nervous having their children here. One or two more incidents could trigger a mass exodus.
— Harvey Schwartz, Baltimore
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