Hi,
It's not as bad as the time during the Kent State shootings, when Madison, with its 50k students was all of a sudden barrickaded by the National Guard and the ROTC folks ... and being frisked for 10 days, while going to work at the Rathskeller, and these guys standing out front with machine guns, was not exactly a comfortable experience ... it would only take one lunatic to pull a trigger and take down innocent people!
Needless to say, that was one week when the Rathskeller businesses got hurt badly!
All in all Madison is ok, and fairly reserved, with one exception that I remember ... when the Badgers had a 20-something game loss going in football, and one Saturday they beat Iowa in the last minute and of course, many stores got their windows broken on State St ... somethings never stop ... again ... believing with our erections instead of reasonable thought!
And I said the same thing about the Math Building thing! Senseless and stupid taking down innocent people!