Campus on alert after student robbed

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) - When Natalie Lantz leaves for class each day, she can have a million things on her mind, but what's foremost is the one thing on her key chain.

"It's easy for someone to get in so me and my roommates have been taking special precautions to make sure our doors are locked," Lantz says.

Natalie lives just around the corner from where a fellow University of Dayton student was robbed by four men around 2:15 a.m. Sunday in the 400 block of Kiefaber Street.

It was the second robbery in less than a week.

The other one happened last Tuesday morning near Jasper and Rubicon as a student was parking his car.

For Natalie, the crimes are scary, but not as scary as the one that happened to a friend of hers last year in an alley between homes.

"He was kicked down by some people and his hands were tied behind his back," Natalie says.

But Natalie and others 2 NEWS talked with say despite the robberies, they don't fear walking around campus.

"I feel very safe here actually," Natalie says.

Adds UD Senior Robert Davidoff, "I don't feel unsafe here. I don't have a lot of concern."

Of course the peaceful Kiefaber Street can take on a different look once classes end.

"It can get pretty crowded out here," Davidoff says. "There's just a party every other house and people circulating between them."

But students tell us that's when they take extra precautions like walking in groups and just paying attention.

"I try to be aware of what's around me," Davidoff says. "I don't listen to my iPod when I'm walking around."