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Comparing Carolina
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Homicide, sex offenses, robbery, aggra
vated assault, buiglary, motor vehicle theft
and arson are the fust tier crimes. Schools
must also provide statistics for second tier
crimes, listed as liquor law violations, drug
abuse violations and weapons possessions
, whether arrests are made or campus dis
ciplinary action is taken.
Keeping a campus safe is the first pri
ority of the different law enforcement di
visions and police departments at univer
sities.
USC Law Enforcement and Safety
Director Ernie Ellis said most of USC’s
crimes are larcenies. And he said that the
best way to combat crimes of this nature
is to educate the population.
“Most of the crimes at USC are from
leaving bookbags lying around, and things
of that nature,” Ellis said.
Alcohol-related incidents aren’t go
ing to show a high arrest record in the
crime statistics, Ellis said He said alcohol
is treated more as a contributing factor to
other crimes.
“Alcohol contributes to domestic is
sues and destruction of property,” Ellis
said. “Its affect is pretty far reaching.”
Maj. Jeff McCraken at UNC Chapel
Hill said the biggest problem the UNC
Department of Public Safety faces is al
so larceny.
But he said the UNC Department of
Public Safety doesn’t deal too much with
alcohol-related crimes. He said the city
police deal with alcohol incidents.
If a.UNC police officer files a report
dealing with an alcohol crime, it is for
warded to Student Affairs, McCraken said
He also said that UNCPD has changed
its philosophy of patrolling campus.
“We now divide our campus into sec
tions. A squad is responsible for one part
of campus for 24 hours a day,” McCrak
en said.
Like at USC, the most common crime
on the Florida campus is theft, accord
ing to Joe Sharkey, a UFPD spokesman.
He said alcohol-related crimes are the sec
ond most prevalent.
“Everything else, thank goodness, we
don’t deal with too much,” he said
According to 1998 statistics, USC has
59 officers. USC police officers are sworn
in by the governor and have constable sta
tus, meaning they have statewide juris
diction.
“But, by policy,” Ellis said, “we re
strict them [USCPD officers] to the uni
versity and surrounding areas.”
USC police officers might also be dis
patched if public events are happening
near campus or in campus facilities like
the Carolina Coliseum, Ellis said.
Of those schools The Gamecock
looked at, the University of Florida had
the highest number of property crimes
and the second highest number of violent
crimes. UF also had the highest number
of swom police officers of the schools in
the study.'
Ellis said that the size of the depart
ment doesn’t depend on the number of
students in the university.
“We have done studies to see if
there is a national formula to hire offi
cers,” he said. But, he said, there is no cor
relation between the size of the universi
ty in square miles or population and the
number of officers required to keep the
university relatively crime-free.
“We look at the amount of service we
want to provide,” Ellis said.
Clemson University had the highest
frequency of violent crimes in 1998. They
also have the smallest police department.
But Clemson had the lowest number of
property crimes in 1998.
Officers aren’t the only weapons uni
versities have to keep campuses safe. Call
boxes, distributed around campuses, alert
police when activated.
The USC PD has been nationally ac
credited, and has just completed the ac
creditation process again, Ellis said. The
USC Police Department is now being re
viewed by the full accreditation com
mission. Ellis said USCPD should be award
ed re-accreditation at that time.
Statistics on campus crimes can be
found on the Security on Campus Inc.
Web site at www.campussafety.org.
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here.
“Wfe know we have failings, but we’re
working to correct those failings,” Moore
said. “We’ll always strive to make [the
process] as close to perfect as we can. If
it has failed at all, it’s because some aca
demic units have been less than enthu
siastic in supporting it.”
The graduate school’s total enroll
ment from 1994 to 1999 is down near
ly 32 percent, the number of degree
seeking students has fallen 12 percent,
and the non-degree enrollment has
fallen by almost 77 percent, according
to the winter 1999 edition of the gradu
ate school’s newsletter. During the same
five-year period, the graduate school’s
production of doctoral degree holders
has seen an increase of 20 percent, ac
cording to the newsletter.
Although Moore recognized the on
line admissions process’ faults, he didn’t
blame the service for the graduate school’s
declining enrollment. USC’s graduate
enrollment fell from 8,534 in the fall
of 1998 to 7,324 in the fall of 1999.
Moore said the decline is part of a na
tional trend, and he said he didn’t wish
to speculate on why graduate school en
rollment is falling.
Markland said the enrollment de
crease is associated with the econoj
my’s strength. i
“The economy is so good that
dents are reluctant to leave where ^B
are and return to graduate schoojMl
said. JH
Purohit explained the decline
rollment by citing demographics and the
strength of the American economy, too
Edgar also said the economy af
fects graduate school enrollment.
“People are pursuing things othei
than graduate school,” he said. “They’re
going straight to the work force.”
Pennsylvania legislators react to college
fire, propose bill to improve campus safety1
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HARRISBURG, Pa. - Pennsylvania lawmakers reacted to a
triple-fatal fraternity house fire at Bloomsbuig University with
a proposed bill designed to improve campus fire safety.
Rep. Michael Michael McGeehan, a Democrat from
Philadelphia, on Monday announced proposed legislation that
would require private and public colleges and universities to
install sprinklers in all student housing within five years.
The bill also provides a loan program that would help in
stitutions pay for the sprinklers’ installation.
The bill doesn’t address off-campus, private buildings like
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the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity house that burned Sunday
killing three 21-year-old students: former star wrestler Kristof
fer Polhemus, Cliff Vail and Marcus LaBuda. But lawri^ter
said they envision future legislation aimed at off-campusjj|
dent housing. jXi
Even before Sunday’s fire, which burned the TKE hoH
to the ground, Pennsylvania legislators were studying the p<l
sibility of requiring sprinklers in college dormitories and higfi
rises.
State senate members agreed to do so after a fatal dormi
tory fire at Seton Hall University in New Jersey that killer
three first-year students two months ago.
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