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building rating system.
Security On Campus, the organization
created by the Clery family, already
donated $500 to SCN. "We're going to try
to find corporate sponsorship —like a
printer, a bank that's in every college town
—to put down several thousand dollars,"
said Georgia House, who is an SCN
member.
Although the off-campus provision of
the Clery bill failed, Dana plans to rate all
student housing in Athens. "If there's an
all-student apartment complex, we're
rating it," she said. SCN will also include
in the ratings tips recommendations
for increasing security.
Dana plans to combat student
unawareness and distribute the annual
ratings to parents. Students fresh from
home are especially vulnerable to crime
because "there’s no in-between setting —
you go straight from that security to the
carefree college atmosphere," she said.
The chief of the Reno, Nevada, police
has already contacted Dana about Safe
Campuses Now. But the Getzingers agree
that the University should be SCN's
proving ground. "We're trying to be very
precise here," she said.
At the University of Florida in
Gainesville, scene of the brutal slayings of
five students off campus, safety is not a
new issue to University of Florida police,
said police spokesperson Angie Tipton.
She said the school's administration and
police began a Crime Prevention Unit
within the department in the early 1970s
that was successful long before the
murders occurred.
"We don't have a 'remake the wheel'
attitude," Tipton said about security
progams at the school. Some of the unit's
programs have focused on rape, theft,
alcohol abuse and fire safety. She said that
since the five September murders, the
demand for the unit to provide programs,
lectures and student advisement on safety
measures has increased significantly.The
65-officer force has added more manpower
to handle the job of on- and off-campus
security.
The University of Florida
administration and police began an escort
program called Student Night Action
Patrol in 1974. It is staffed by 25 to 30
work-study students who escort other
students between any two points on
campus, Tipton said.
SNAP escorts are supervised by the
university's police and must undergo a
series of screenings and interviews before
they are selected.
Each SNAP escort wears a picture ID to
identify himself and carries a police radio
so he can call for help if he encounters any
trouble or sees anything suspicious while
escorting a student. Since SNAP's origin,
its members have reported 392
crimes."Since 1974, we haven't had one
incident when a student was accompanied
by an escort from SNAP," Tipton said.
Since the beginning of September, the
escorts have handled more than 10,000
students.
Tipton said the program also has a 16-
passenger van that helps with the
overflow during busy times of the quarter,
like exam time. But students living off-
campus also need to learn safety basics
that could, at some moment, make the
difference between life and death.
"Out of 34,000 students enrolled, only
eight to ten thousand live on campus," she
said. The University of Florida's Crime
Prevention Unit sponsored Safety Week in
October and targeted it to off-campus
students.
The University of Florida police hope
the year's reduction in overall crime — a
15-percent decrease since 1988 — will
continue, but Tipton said she doesn't
expect students to change their attitudes
about safety overnight.
"Students think security measures are a
hassle and won’t bother to lock their dorm
doors or car doors," she said. "They make
themselves vulnerable because of their
lifestyles. It's a hard attitude to change."
She hopes the crime information
legislation passed in Florida will help
other schools around the country realize
that the issue of security is becoming more
important to prospective students.
The University of Florida police
department has provided crime
information to the FBI's Uniform Crime
Report upon request since 1966. Tipton
said local police and newspapers need the
information because the university is a
community. "Any university campus is a
community within a community. We
comply with the bill's regulations already,
every day of the week, by having statistics
sheets ready for anyone who wants to read
them," she said.
With the passage of the Clery bill,
Congress has said availability and open
records aren't enough. Families like the
Clerys and the Getzingers know they
aren't enough. What isn't known is the
extent to which the new rules of crime
statistics disclosure will help students
make informed choices about where they
want to live, and what impact safety
courses and kits will have on a group
famous for its carelessness and feelings of
immortality.
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