On Wednesday night, the 18-year-old student from Virginia was stabbed to death during an armed robbery while walking through Morningside Park in Manhattan.
About 2,600 students are enrolled at the liberal arts women’s college, located just two blocks from the park where Majors was killed.
“It’s hard as a student because I think we’re all feeling like it could have been any of us,” Papas said.
Her death has left many people feeling vulnerable and unsafe, especially given how often Barnard and Columbia students walk in Morningside Park.
It could have been literally any of us.” “We’ve all felt it was unsafe,” added another first-year student, Vivian Todd.
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