Blog 21: Article 4

Today I read "Sexual Violence on the College Campus: A Template for Compliance With Federal Policy." This article related not only to the article I read yesterday but also to the first article I read. The article focused on sexual assault that takes place on college campuses. It discusses the Clery Act and how the National Institute of Justices asses Institutes of Higher Education on their implementation of this act. Before 1988, fewer than four percent of American colleges publically reported the crimes that took place on campus. Now they must, “(1) make public their on-campus crime statistics, (2) publicize prevention and actions designed to respond to crime,(3) institute crime logs, and (4) demonstrate that the rights of victims of sexual assault are preserved.”

Jeanne Clery was a college student in Pennsylvania who was tortured, raped, and murdered in her dorm room in 1986. After this, her parents made sure that campus safety was improved on a national scale. I plan to do further research on the Clery Act for my paper. This article explained to me the contents of The Ohio State University Department of Public Safety’s 2009 Annual Campus Security Report, that I read as article one. I now know why so much information about the university’s crime rates were provided; along with prevention methods and contact information for reporting crimes and for victim support. If I would have known of this document previously to shopping around for a college, it most definitely would have played a major role in my selection.

This article was very informative and provided me not only with information I plan to use in my paper, but also with information I would like to complete further research on.

McMahon, Patricia Pasky. "Sexual Violence on the College Campus: A Template for Compliance With Federal Policy." Journal of American College Health 57.3 (2008): 361-366. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 21 Jan. 2011.