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Students are back enjoying the night life of Five Points almost two weeks after USC student Samantha Josephson’s death – but some things have changed.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Maxwell Ward, a junior at USC, says he has noticed a change in the atmosphere since Josephson was kidnapped and murdered after she got into a car she believed was an Uber.<\/p>\n \u201cI think people have stopped coming out a little bit. Some people are scared. They have been followed before. It\u2019s weird and scary, and you know it’s just kind of screwed up there are people out there who would do that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Not only has the atmosphere changed, but students are taking extra precautions to be safer while going\u00a0out. Mariel Nash, a freshman at USC\u00a0who says she thinks<\/span> <\/span>students\u00a0are all more aware,\u00a0is taking her own safety measures.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI recently purchased pepper spray to keep on me and I always carry this lanyard everywhere,\u201d Nash said.<\/p>\n When it comes to getting home safe from Five Points, students are relying on alternative options beside Uber and Lyft.<\/p>\n Shairell Gadson, a Columbia resident, says she has taken many Ubers in the past, but now has different plans. \u201cI\u2019m not taking Ubers or Lyfts. I\u2019m having a friend pick me up to get home safe,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Ward chooses to walk home, but he now takes an extra step to ensure he is safe.\u00a0 \u201cAfter what happened I think that every time I am walking home I call somebody and I make sure that I am talking to them all the way home,\u201d Ward said.<\/p>\n Although the crowds are back in Five Points, students say safety throughout the night is at the top of their minds.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" USC students are taking more precautions when going back out to enjoy the nightlife of Five Points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":20442,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[39,63,1,41,40],"tags":[137,719,749,435,713,699],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20391"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21584,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20391\/revisions\/21584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}