IT IS a well-known fact that students regularly become victims of crime during their time at university. Frequently falling foul at the hands of law-breakers has almost become an unwritten rite of passage in the eyes of many Fallowfield students.
Although results have proven that females are actually less at risk from physical assault, it is they who are most fearful of becoming victims of crime. Yet, it is up to the lads to save any damsel in distress and prove that that chivalry most certainly is not dead, isn’t it?
Apparently not. Results of a recent Student Direct survey have revealed a worrying trend that the knights in shining armour are more likely to be comparing muscle-size than putting streetwise strategies into action.
Macho-stupidity has led to more than half of male students surveyed being physically threatened and 30 percent being victims of actual assault. Of course, it is not all down to testosterone-fuelled boyish behaviour, as one-fifth of females admitted to walking home after midnight.
Statistics show that the two-thirds of students will either be mugged or experience robbery during their time spent at University, so it is probably time to stop pretending to be super-heroes and start taking streetwise sensibility seriously.
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