3 violent crimes in recent weeks, including 2 rapes, have UB students, officials on edge

Link to September 7 Buffalo News article.

Excerpt:

Just two weeks into the fall semester at the University at Buffalo, the school’s Main Street campus and the neighborhood around it have been the scene of three violent crimes.

Last Sunday, a freshman who stepped outside to get some fresh air was grabbed from behind and raped.

Four days later, a young woman walking across the campus was attacked by two men. They beat her, and then one held her down while the other sexually assaulted her.

And then early Saturday morning, a UB senior was hospitalized after he suffered a serious head wound during a fight that broke out just south of the campus.

The violence has students and community residents nervous and university officials and law enforcement working hard to put an end to the violence and crime that have long plagued the area.