SCHENECTADY College issues warning after gun-point robbery BY JUSTIN MASON Gazette Reporter
Union College officials are telling students to take necessary precautions and are stepping up off-campus patrols following an armed burglary of three students living in a Gillespie Street apartment. Schenectady police are still looking for three men who forced their way into the home and removed a number of valuable electronic devices Tuesday evening. Sgt. Eric Clifford said the case is still under investigation and wouldn’t rule out a connection between a number of thefts that occurred near the college earlier this winter. “It’s possible,” he said Wednesday. Union spokesman Phil Wadja acknowledged the neighborhood is where a good number of the roughly 200 students living off campus reside. He said students are being advised to demonstrate a greater degree of “situational awareness” both on and off campus. “We’re starting to work with the Police Department to keep an eye out in that neighborhood,” he said...........>>>>...............>>>>.............http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r01500&AppName=1
That area continues to be worrisome. My daughter graduated from Union and lived on the corner of University and Union in her senior year. It was a constant worry to me because I know the area. But to the parents of the other 8 girls, they were totally unaware of the nonsense that occurs there. Kids are VERY complacent on a campus thinking nothing can happen to them because they live in a fantasy that provides them with a false sense of security. Union is just "starting to work with the police?" Come on--kids get mugged there as soon as school is in session.
-lol-Source! The only area experiencing "renaissance" is the one block of State St where $100 MILLION in taxpayer money has been flushed. Also the hot dog vendor outside the packed DSS is experiencing "renaissance". His lines keep getting longer.
As far as Union, the area around the campus is in "flux". Robberies and shootings are way up. Union needs to start paying a PILOT for its freeloading of police and fire/EMS services. The broke taxpayers have enough with financing Metrograft and now the Key Bank which has been yanked from tax rolls by Morris and the usual suspects.
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-lol-Source! The only area experiencing "renaissance" is the one block of State St where $100 MILLION in taxpayer money has been flushed. Also the hot dog vendor outside the packed DSS is experiencing "renaissance". His lines keep getting longer. 
