When news broke that a shooting at Brown University’s campus left at least two students dead and nine others wounded, the shock wasn’t just about violence in a place of learning — it was about the disruption of what safety feels like. Brown, an Ivy League institution, is not normally where headlines speak of panic and shelter-in-place alerts during final exams; it is a space where futures are shaped, not fractured.
Young people were inside classrooms, libraries, hallways — pursuing knowledge, uncertain of how quickly their world could shift — and suddenly the familiar became perilous. The victims were more than statistics: classmates, friends, people with plans and promise, names like Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov now spoken with grief across campuses and communities.
When a place meant for growth becomes a site of loss, the question that lingers is less about how this happened and more about how we, as a society, reconcile the idea of education as sanctuary with a reality where even sanctuary can feel unsafe.
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