Yup, the Students are Back

So Mom and I were driving back from lunch (Mexican... yum) and we saw a slew of flashing lights ahead on Stadium Blvd. As we passed the excitement, all I saw was a car that looked suspiciously burnt... and all Mom saw was a pair skid marks headed straight for a downed tree. Evidently the ambulance and fire truck had already come and gone. I'm fairly sure you can put it together from there. *shaking head*

Each year, the crowd of students seems to be bigger and bigger. I heard somewhere that we have another record enrollment of around 30,000 students. That's about a third of this town's population. Violent crime seems to go up, too. School's been in session for 3 days, and the papers are already splaying across the front pages: local stabbing makes 5th Columbia homicide this year. Of course, having grown up in a big city, that's a laughable number, but still. For a city/town that's not used to daily violence, it can be a bit shocking.

The students are definately a good thing for Columbia. The city would have stagnated ages ago without them. But I wonder just how bad they might be for the place, too. The least they could do is learn how to drive. *snort*