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The Arming Question
Princeton Public Safety officers are sworn police officers who have the same training and enforce the same laws as local police officers, and they are responsible for responding to the same incidents -- including armed incidents -- as local officers. Yet University Public Safety officers are forbidden from carrying guns. Despite the Virginia Tech shootings and three gun scares on Princeton's campus in recent years, the University has been steadfast in its opposition to arming its officers. But our investigation casts doubt on the University's conclusion that keeping officers unarmed will not affect the response to a shooter on campus and that arming would negatively impact student-officer relationships.
Tags: campus safety; Princeton University; guns; police officers
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Off Campus Crime
While the Clery Act requires Texas universities to report on campus crime, they are not required to report any off campus crime that affects their students. The numbers were staggering and showed a clear difference in the safety of students on campus versus off.
Tags: Texas Tech; Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act; Clery Act; campus crime
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Investigating Campus Crime
Students and parents are led to believe that NYU campus crime is far safer than it appears because of the difficulty of interpreting the crime reports. Nearly 97 percent of drug cases never reached the Public Safety department, and in seven years the department had never responded to incidents involving alcohol.
Tags: department of education; paraphernalia; crime statistics; residence hall; off campus;
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Accidents Rise on Campuses as Insections Decline
"The number of serious accidents on college campuses has increased by about 50 percent over the past 20 years while government enforcement of occupational safety rules has fallen sharply. These changes among colleges were larger than for all types of employers as a whole. Many public colleges and universities are exempt from any OSHA inspections and so can afford to pay less attention to work place safety without serious repercussion. In some states, inspectors lack the legal authority to fine public colleges. Colleges with the largest fines included both large and small institutions."
Tags: OSHA; accidents; safety; government regulations; inspections
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The Dorm from Hell
This investigative report exposes the terrible conditions of a dorm on the University of Texas at Dallas campus. The dorm is riddled with health and safety concerns and is not safe for students to live in.
Tags: university; health; students; college; housing
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The Battle of Kennesaw State
Sugg reports on racial discrimination against Jewish and African American professors at Kennesaw State University. The investigations follows the trial and tribulations of one Jewish professor, Paul Lapides. The story finds "a pattern of widespread anti-Semitism and racism on campus - incidents that were condoned and covered up by the administration." Many Jewish professors have been fired; Jewish staff members told the newspaper they feared for their careers and safety; and African Americans complained of a pattern of "obstruction" and "harassment" by the school.
Tags: race; racial tension; discriminatory practices; higher educations; colleges; universities
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UC keeps sex crimes in shadows
A five-month Bee investigation finds that "reports of rapes and sexual assaults at University of California campuses are seldom made public each year despite a decade-old federal law created to force colleges to do so." Bee reporters found that several UC campuses violated the federal campus crime reporting law, called the Clery Act. "The result: annual crime reports provided to students and parents that create a misleading portrayal of safety at UC campuses." While the nine UC campuses reported 60 forcible sex offenses in 1998, including rapes, the Bee discovered "at least 190 cases of rape and forcible sex offenses...The figure is by no means comprehensive." UC Irvine and UC Riverside sidestepped the more stringent reporting requirements of the Clery Act by using FBI statistics.
Tags: Clery Act; sexual assault; sex crimes; universities; colleges; campus crime statistics; University of California; U.S. Department of Education
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Fire Prevention 101
"'Fire Prevention 101' revealed that student housing on college campuses throughout Illinois is filled with fire hazards and fire code violations that could result in deadly fires. Our investigation suggested that lax enforcement of fire codes could make Illinois the site of the next fatal campus fire, and just one month after our story aired, a student died in a fraternity house fire at Milliken University in Decatur, Illinois."
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; fire hazard; fire codes; colleges; students; safety
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Lackmann sustains questionable food safety standards
"Lackmann Culinary Services, Hofstra University's food supplier maintains nine eating facilities on campus that were found to have a variety of unsanitary and harmful food handling and preparation practices even Lackmann corporate officials admitted could be endangering the health of patrons."
Tags: food safety; sanitation; garbage; pathogen bacteria; chicken salad; Nassau County Board of Health
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Cracks in the Firewall
This special report reveals how missed inspections, missed paperwork and lax enforcement of safety laws plague New Jersey's fire prevention system. The Record investigated 1999 fire safety inspection records in Bergen, Passaic, Morris, and Hudson counties and found repeated lapses. The investigation was prompted by a dormitory fire that killed three students at Seton Hall University. The fire officials admitted that they had not inspected the campus that year and had sketchy records on earlier inspections.
Tags: CAR; fire wall; fire safety; inspection; fire records; fire inspection records; fire prevention; fire; fire inspectors; FOI; state Division of Fire Safety; New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority; Meadowlands; National Park Service