U Chicago confronts increase in violent crime around campus

Image:  After a recent graduate was shot and killed during a robbery in the Hyde Park neighborhood near the University of Chicago’s campus last month, the university announced plans to work more closely with the Chicago Police Department to increase policing and surveillance in the neighborhoods around the campus. The Nov. 9 killing of Shaoxiong “Dennis” Zheng, a 24-year-old recent graduate of the master’s program in statistics, who was originally from China, marked the third instance...